Alexander Bangiev

Alexander Bangiev, 2010
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1993) Germany (since 1993)
Born	November 16, 1946 Stalinabad , Soviet Union
title	International champion (1994)
Current  Elo rating	2378 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating	2444 (April 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Bangiev (born November 16, 1946 in Stalinabad , USSR ) is a German chess player , trainer and author , who comes from Tajikistan . He is known for the controversial Bangiev Method he developed .

Career

Alexander Bangiev has lived in Germany since 1992. He became Lower Saxony Master for the first time in 1994 and won this title again in 1995, 1996 and 1998. In 1994 he was awarded the title of International Master .

In the 1992/93 season he played for the Bielefelder SK in the Bundesliga . In 1993 he moved to Isernhagen, played in the major league and at times in the 2nd Bundesliga. After a long break, he joined PSC Hannover in 2005 (since 2012 chess department of Hannover 96 ). Several times he took part in the finals of the German Championship.

In recent years his activity has been limited to training work (C and B training license of the DSB ) and the development of a method of thinking.

Elo development

Bangiev method

Bangiev is the developer of the so-called Bangiev method or "B-method". In his opinion, it is a theory and method of thinking for every stage of a game of chess and, if used correctly, supposedly automatically leads to known, but then understood, opening moves or settlements in the middlegame or in the endgame . It pretends to give a scientific guide to chess thinking.

It consists of three components:

• Theory : The field strategy, a chess theory based on the primacy of fields. It is assumed that there are certain fields that keep their strategic or game-determining importance throughout the game.
• Method : The fields-move-thinking method, a method of chess thinking based on the field strategy. Based on the important fields of certain types of positions, the traits in question are to be examined.
• Practice : Chess training, which is based on the field strategy, consists in the application of the fields-move-thinking method and in which the own thinking technique should be systematically trained.

criticism

The Bangiev method has been widely criticized. One objection is that the method is one-dimensional and only works in specially selected games. The general benefit is doubtful.

Scottish Grand Master Jonathan Rowson describes the concept of field strategy as “confusing” and “incoherent”. He recommends staying away from it.

Some other chess trainers such as FM Uwe Kersten and FM Wilhelm Schlemermeyer († 2010) strongly advise against this method.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 106
2. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
3. ↑ "[...] 'squares strategy' which I found confusing and frequently incoherent. [...] it is worth advising you stay away from this CD, and anything else based on Bangiev's squares strategy. " So Rowson on the occasion of a review of Bangiev's CD" Opening Repertoire for Black "in New In Chess 6/2006, p. 91.
4. ^ Reviews by Uwe Kersten and Wilhelm Schlemermeyer at karlonline.org (KARL chess magazine).

Works

• Developments in the King's Gambit 1980-88 , Quadrant Marketing Ltd, London 1989
• Developments in the Sicilian 2. f4 1980-88 , Quadrant Marketing. Ltd, London 1989
• The accepted King's Gambit with 3rd Sc3 , Verlag Reinhold Dreier, Ludwigshafen 1993 (together with Volker Hergert)
• The assumed King's Gambit. The logic , Verlag Reinhold Dreier, Ludwigshafen 1996
• The logic of the rejected king's gambit , Verlag Ellen Harenberg-Labs, Hanover 1999, ISBN 3-89042-034-6
• The Tarrasch Defense, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 1999
• The Gambit Lexicon, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 1999
• The King's Gambit, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-932466-62-4
• The Philidor Defense, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-935602-36-7
• Field strategy 1, tactics, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937549-17-X
• Field strategy 2, opening, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937549-46-3
• Field strategy 3, middle game, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937549-55-2
• Opening repertoire for black, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-937549-81-1
• White repertoire 1. e4, CD-ROM , ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-935602-65-0
• Field strategy for Morra-Gambit , Silbersaiten Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-939345-04-0
• Field strategy: Tactics , Silbersaiten Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-939345-05-9
• Field strategy: Method of thinking , Silbersaiten Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-939345-06-7
• The children's chess course: Book 1: rules of chess , Silbersaiten Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-939345-35-0
• The children's chess course: Book 2: Mate the King! , Silbersaiten Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-939345-36-7

Web links

• Homepage of Alexander Bangiev
• Books on the B method
• Replayable chess games by Alexander Bangiev on chessgames.com (English)