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Tables of Contents for Teach Yourself Better Chess
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
1
Basic
Thinking
4
2
Calculation
6
2
The Centre
8
2
Exchanging Pieces
10
2
Good Bishops and Bad Bishops
12
2
Bishops and Knights
14
2
Pawn to Rook Three
16
2
Bishop to Knight's Five
18
2
Castling (1)
20
2
Knights before Bishops
22
2
Developing Your Pieces
24
2
The Fianchetto (1): Bishops
26
2
Planning
28
2
Gentlemen, the Queen!
30
2
Pawn Takes Pawn
32
2
Pushing Pawns
34
2
When You Find a Good Move ...
36
2
Isolated Pawns
38
2
Backward Pawns
40
2
Doubled Pawns
42
2
Weak Squares
44
2
Rook on the Seventh
46
2
Sacrifices
48
2
Hierarchies of Thought
50
2
I Go Here, He Goes There
52
2
Advanced
54
52
The Good 'Bad Bishop'
56
2
Opposite-coloured Bishops
58
2
The Fianchetto (2): The Pawn Move
60
2
The Wrong Rook
62
2
The Centre of Gravity
64
2
Critical Moments
66
2
Improving Your Position
68
2
Defending
70
2
Playing in Blinkers
72
2
One Move at a Time
74
2
... With a Small Advantage to White
76
2
Timing
78
2
Patience
80
2
Castling (2)
82
2
How to Study Openings
84
2
Endgame Strategy
86
2
Gambits
88
2
Positional Sacrifices
90
2
Time to Relax
92
2
Playing for a Win
94
2
Pawn Moves
96
2
Learning from Losses
98
2
The Art of Distraction
100
2
If in Doubt, Change Sides
102
2
Winning and Losing
104
2
Mastery
106
2
The Grand Plan
108
2
Subgoals
110
2
Judgement or Calculation?
112
2
Flexibility
114
2
Minority Attack
116
2
Dialectical Materialism
118
2
Material and Time
120
2
Planning for the Endgame
122
2
Bishops and Knights (2)
124
2
Positional Dynamics
126
2
Preserving the Balance
128
2
Crime and Punishment
130
2
Writing and Editing
132
2
Throwing Salt
134
2
Creativity
136
2
Chaos
138
2
The Bad 'Good Bishop'
140
2
Luck
142
2
Practicality (1)
144
2
Practicality (2)
146
2
Hedgehogs Playing Tennis
148
2
The Grammar of Chess
150
2
Analysing and Playing
152
2
The Meta-Rules of Strategy
154
2
Offering a Draw
156