Artur Yusupov was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1986 to 1992, just behind the legendary World Champions Karpov and Kasparov.
He has won everything there is to win in chess except for the World Championship.Here we present the first of his landmark
Build up your Chess series specially adapted with MoveTrainer® for chess players who want to build their skills on solid foundations.
Yusupov guides the student towards a higher level of chess understanding using carefully selected positions and advice. This new understanding is then tested by a series of puzzles.
Yusupov's complete trainer substitute
In 2003 Yusupov began a three-year training programme in his chess academy. This programme was later taken over, in a different form, by the Chess Tigers University.
As Yusupov himself writes in the introduction:
...the overwhelmingly positive comments of my students encouraged me to rework this programme in the form of a series of books.
Build up your Chess with Artur Yusupov
The student will receive the necessary basic knowledge in six areas of the game - tactics, positional play, strategy, the calculation of variations, the opening and the endgame.
The book consists of 24 lessons with a certain theme. Each lesson has a general explanation of the theme (for example 'the pin' or 'stalemate motifs') with a number of examples. In the second part of the lesson, students have to solve 12 exercises on the theme.
Yusupov himself again in the introduction:
This manual is intended for the many club players who unfortunately receive no support in attempts to master our complicated sport. In this way, it's intended as a substitute for a trainer...
In recent years, Yusupov has mainly worked as a chess trainer with players ranging from former World Champion Anand to local amateurs in Germany, where he resides.
Artur Yusupov's award-winning training course the Complete Series was
Winner of the 2009 Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place).
IM John Donaldson, JeremySilman.com:"Very helpful for almost all players below 2200 who learned how to play chess outside the Soviet Union. With very few exceptions such players have fundamental gaps in their knowledge."
