New Ideas in Chess
ty Larry Evans
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U.S. Champion
Three times U.S. "Open" Champion
Canadian " Open" Champion
London
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To Clementine
Here is a book for you to
learn from when I'm not
there to lose my temper.
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Foreword
TEE keynote of chemistry is that elements may combine to create
new entities. The chessmaster
is the chemist of a dimension that is
geometrically bounded by 8 x 8. The elements with which he
works are Pawn Structure, Space, Force, and Time. The amateur
is vaguely aware that these eist. but he does nor know how they
interact. He has never learned to manipulate them properly.
Masters have been of titrle help, for they are ootoriously
inarriculaie
when jt comes to explaining
their own thought processes. My
problem has been to iranslaG into priLrciples
t[e triUits which ari
inbred in tbe master; then to break these down into words,
These principles, moreover, are so absolute that if chess is played
a thousand years from now they will still be in force. I arrived at
them by replaying all my tournament games, analyzing why I
either won or lost, and then extracting the quintessence
from each
one. What is "new" about this book is its formulation. Because
it is basic, it is revolutionary.
A famous priaciple of conservation
in physics states that matter
may be converted
into energy and vice versa, but the total quantity
of both together, in a closed system, remains unchanged. ThL
chessboard
is a closed system. Our "new ideas" would liad us to
su