How to Draw with Chess Masters: A dozen (!) plus 1 ways to draw against masters in classical OTB

By Jan-Michael Harndt

If your FIDE rating is between 1200 and 2200, this can be the book for you!

It contains a healthy mixture of chess patterns and psychology. Both should be useful if you face a chess master over the board. If you play without them however you will lose.

 

In addition you may find some humor ;)

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jun 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9783755444039

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Content

Content

Introduction

Game...WAY TO DRAW................FIDE

1..........Be a Kryptonite.................2226

2..........Fake a Win........................2302

3..........Offer a Perpetual...............2303

4..........Enjoy a Kingwalk ...............2323

5..........Build a Fortress..................2325

6..........Time your Troubles............2340

7..........Recall your Patterns..........2355

8..........Time your Offer..................2367

9..........Trust your Intuition............2368

10.........Convince your Opponent...2374

11.........Prepare to Infinity.............2511

12.........Bore to Death................Olymp!

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Impressum

It was unnecessary to write a conclusion because the educational content speaks for itself – this is not a joke!

Introduction

No, the title of this book is not about the art of handling pencils - it's a chess book! It contains twelve games where I managed to get at least a draw versus chess masters over the board with classical time controls due to different reasons.

Is it my goal to turn you into a chess master because you read a small book? No, that would mean lying. But I can try to give you the right mindset, a bunch of psychological insights and a few chess tools. It may help you to reach your goal of drawing with a master once in a while or at least once.

I have a classical OTB chess rating in three different associations with plenty of tournaments and in all three my rating is somewhere around 1900. Therefore chess masters are on average much stronger than me and should win the clear majority of their games against me. But since I've reached a level of 1900 many years ago for some reason – or a dozen reasons - they only win every second game on average.

All of my last three games with masters ended in a draw. I feel fully equipped to let you in on the secrets how and why I managed to get those draws. One reason doesn't get its own chapter because it happens in all of these successful games: I play faster than my master opponents.