Zwischenzug! A Comprehensive Guide to Intermediate Moves by Natasha Regan & by Matt Ball

Zwischenzug! A Comprehensive Guide to Intermediate Moves will teach you:

✏️ The different types of Zwischenzug and the “Awesome 8” patterns you need to look for to find them in your own games

✏️ How the Zwischenzug is so much more than just a tactic to win material – You will also discover how master players use it to gain a positional advantage and how to incorporate this higher level of play into your thinking at the board

✏️ How to use what you learn from chapters such as Provoke a Weakness and Pep Up Your Position to gain small but crucial advantages over your opponent – just like the top players do

The authors, Women’s International Master Natasha Regan and National Instructor Matt Ball, have analyzed thousands of games, including variations not played at the time, to reveal startling tactics and delicate positional finesses – all presented in easy-to-remember categories.

You will get more than 400 puzzles to test you on your intermediate move prowess, with an added bonus of 20 master games each including annotated Zwischenzug sequences, including over 30 from the 2023 Ding Liren – Ian Nepomniachtchi World Championship match.

Two expert authors, one amazing course

WIM Natasha Regan is passionate about all of her pursuits, as a mathematician, go player, and of course as an accomplished chess writer. One of her books, Game Changer, has been given the Chessable treatment.

Joined by NI Matt Ball a content creator and chess coach (a FIDE-certified National Instructor as a matter of fact), the pairing of these two make for a top-notch course whose instructive value few can put a candle to.