Build up your Chess 2 - Artur Yusupov (tapa blanda)

This Build Up Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics is an English-language chess training book for club players who already know the basics and want to deepen their understanding of the game. This paperback is the second volume in Artur Yusupov’s training course, combining clear explanations with carefully chosen exercises and positions.

What the book covers

Following the first volume on the foundations of chess, Volume 2: Beyond the Basics takes the reader further towards more mature play and better decisions at the board. Yusupov explains key strategic and tactical ideas, highlights typical motifs, and shows how to understand a position more deeply than by calculation alone.

The book’s strength lies in its method. You first work through the ideas and examples, then test what you have learned with a series of exercises. That makes it well suited to self-study and steady improvement.

About the author and training method

Artur Yusupov is a grandmaster and respected chess trainer. He finished third in the world between 1986 and 1992, behind only Karpov and Kasparov, and later coached players at many different levels, from Vishy Anand and leading grandmasters to promising juniors and ambitious amateurs.

That experience is reflected in the way the book is structured: the material is demanding but orderly, and each topic is designed to build real chess understanding rather than simply present isolated examples.

Key details

• Series: Build Up Your Chess
• Volume: Volume 2: Beyond the Basics
• Author: Artur Yusupov
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Page count: 288 pages
• Publication date: 8 November 2008
• ISBN: 9781906552107