Grivas Efstratios. FIDE Trainers’ Commission: Advanced Chess School. Volume 3: Doubled & Backward Pawns

FIDE 2014 (office@fide.com - www.fide.com), 2014. — 80 p. — ISBN13: 978-618-81200-3-7; ISSN: 13: 978-618-81200-2-0.Chess has existed as a sport played at a competitive level for centuries. The common code governing the Laws of Chess is relatively recent, and the foundation of Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), in Paris in 1924, is even more modern. FIDE currently has 181 member federations spread across all continents. Titles for players were introduced by FIDE in 1950, and titles for Arbiters and Organizers followed. From 2005 we are moving to a new phase, with titles for Trainers.Chess is on the increase in schools across the world. It is part of the mainstream curriculum in many countries. It is a goal of FIDE to make chess an educational tool, and generate worldwide popularity for the game. Examples of the many educational advantages of chess are: shows the need to make people realize the importance of advance planning; develops analytic and accurate thinking; shows the necessity for a combative spirit; teaches fair play and emphasizes the need for preparation and hard work for success.However, with the increasing population of chess players, comes the need for trainers to assist with their development. This is a new concept of the ever-active FIDE Trainers Commission. This series is dedicated to advanced subjects, consisting of 80-page books. We do hope that we will be able to deliver 3-4 such books annually, increasing the level and the education of our trainers worldwide.Efstratios Grivas is an international chess Grandmaster and also a highly experienced chess trainer and author from Grece. He’s currently living in Athens, and he is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (Secretary of the FIDE Trainers’ Commission).He has represented his country internationally on many occasions, winning the 4th position in the World Junior Championship 1985, an individual gold medal at the 1989 European Team Championship and an individual silver medal at the 1998 Olympiad.In 2010 he was awarded the worldwide highly important FIDE TRG Awards – Boleslavsky Medal (best author) for 2009. Grivas is also an International FIDE Chess Arbiter and an International FIDE Chess Organizer.