This is a book for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.[...]

Renowned grandmaster Artur Yusupov completes his course of chess improvement. Volume 1, "The Fundamentals" showed club players the basic ideas they should know. Volume 2, "Beyond the Basics" set off on the road to mastery, and now in Volume 3 we arrive at our final destination. Yusupov guides the re[...]

This volume continues Yusupov's "Beyond the Basics Series". "The Fundamentals" series shows players the basic ideas they should know, then the "Beyond the Basics" series sets off on the road to mastery. Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected [...]

This is the final volume in The Fundamentals series, aimed at chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations Yusupov guides the reader towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of [...]

This volume completes Artur Yusupov's course of chess improvement. The Fundamentals series showed players the basic ideas they should know. The Beyond the Basics series set off on the road to mastery, and now in the Mastery series we have arrived at our final destination. Yusupov guides the reader u[...]