ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fred Reinfeld was a Master chess player. It was

in the city schools and at City College that he
began his chess playing. While still in his teens, he
became Intercollegiate Champion, and was vic-
torious in the New York State, Manhattan Club,
and Marshall Club championship matches, de-
feating such worthy opponents as Sammy Re-
shevsky, Reuben Fine, Arnold Denker, and I. A.
Horowitz.
Mr. Reinfeld was an editor of Chess Review and
a prolific writer, with more than fifty chess books to
his credit, including: First Book of Chess (co-au-
thored with Al Horowitz), Improving Your Chess,
How to Win Chess Games Quickly, 1001 Ways to
Checkmate, Complete Book of Chess Openings,
Chess Strategy for Offense and Defense, and
1001 Chess Sacrifices and Combinations.
 FRED REINFELD

Harper & Row, Publishers

New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco
London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney
CONTENTS

PART I
White's Point of View

chapter page
1. 1 How to Control the Center
2. 11 How to Exploit Superior Mobility
3. 24 How to Exploit Black's Premature
Opening Up of the Position
4. 34 How to Exploit Black's Premature
Counterattack
5. 41 How to Exploit Black's Weakening
Pawn Moves
6. 57 Row to Exploit Black's Errors
of Judgment
7. 69 How to Exploit Irregular Defenses

PART II
Black's Point of View

8. 82 How to Seize the Initiative

9. 96 How to Play against Gambits
10. 113 How to Defend against
a Powerful Attack
11. 135 How to Seize the Attack
12. 143 How to Exploit Unusual Openings
 C H E S S NOTATION

As indicated in the following diagram, all the squares on

the chessboard are numbered from both sides of the board;
White's K R 1 , for example, is Black's K R 8 . Each square is
also named for the piece occupying the file. Below the diagram
is a list of the chief abbreviations used in chess notation.

BLACK

WHITE

King — K check — ch
Queen — Q discovered check — dis ch
Rook — R double check — dbl ch
Bishop — B en passant — e.p.
Knight — N good move — !
Pawn — P very good move — ! !
captures — x outstanding move — ! ! !
to — — bad move — ?