Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals

Name: Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
Price: 26.96 USD
Availability: PreOrder
ISBN: 9781906552015

By: Artur Yusupov

Quality Chess / 2008 / Paperback

Write a Review

New. Expected to ship on or about 12/16/25.

Stock No: WW552011

Buy Item $26.96 Retail: ~~$29.95~~ Save 10% ($2.99)

New. Expected to ship on or about 12/16/25.

Quantity:

Stock No: WW552011

Quality Chess / 2008 / Paperback

Quantity:

Add To Cart

or checkout with

Call

Product Close-up

This product is not available for expedited shipping.

* This product is available for shipment only to the USA.

Product Description

▼▲

Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles. The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.

The various topics - Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings - are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.

This book is the first volume at the Fundamentals level. 264 pages.

Product Information

▼▲

Title: Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
By: Artur Yusupov
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 264
Vendor: Quality Chess
Publication Date: 2008

Dimensions: 9.50 X 6.75 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 1906552010
ISBN-13: 9781906552015
Stock No: WW552011

Publisher's Description

▼▲

Artur Yusupov’s complete course of chess training stretches to nine volumes, guiding the reader towards a higher chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. To make sure that this new knowledge sticks, it is then tested by a selection of puzzles.

The course is structured in three series with three levels. The Fundamentals level is the easiest one, Beyond the Basics is more challenging, and Mastery is quite difficult, even for stronger players.

The various topics – Tactics, Strategy, Positional Play, Endgames, Calculating Variations, and Openings – are spread evenly across the nine volumes, giving readers the chance to improve every area as they work through the books.

This book is the first volume at the Fundamentals level.

The Build Up Your Chess series won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world.

Author Bio

▼▲

Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary Karpov and Kasparov. He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship. In recent years he has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from current World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.