Winning with Reverse Chess Strategy

Winning by moving backward! Redeployment of pieces (usually Knights and Bishops) helped champions such as Capablanca, Fischer, and Karpov win many games. Most recently, backward moves featured prominently in the first 5 games of the Kasparov vs Deep Blue match.

Reuter, a senior master from Texas, charts ten types of redeployment strategies:

• Redeploy and then attack
• Maneuvering
• Defense and then attack
• Forced redeployment
• Redeployment in the heat of battle
• The back rank lineup
• Long range planning
• The rook lift
• Unusual redeployments

How redeployment figures into openings, the middlegame, and the endgame is also covered. Includes 60 exercises to sharpen your backward-move thinking.