artur yusupov series

hey whats the difference between ' Build Up Your Chess', 'Boost Your Chess' and 'Chess Evolution'?? which one is the best??

They are different parts in each of three 3-volume sets which get progressively 'harder'. They are pretty uniform in presentation, so I wouldn't say any one is best.

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/14/artur_yusupovs_awardwinning_training_course/

I have the first book: Build Up Your Chess: Fundamentals/Level 1.  Although I have yet to dig into it.

The way the series is structured is the three fundamentals (orange) books first (Build, Boost and then Evolution) followed by the (blue) Beyond the Basics books (again Build, Boost and then Evolution) and finally the (green) Mastery books (yes Build, Boost and then Evoluton).  They are designated as under 1500 rating (fundamentals) U1800 (beyond) and U2100 (mastery) although Aagaard states that they are actually significantly tougher than that.

There are 24 chapters in each of the 9 books and (from the Quality Chess blog) this is an outline of what each level concentrates on (as most most suspect - far more tactics in level 1 and 2.  More openings, strategy , calculation and positional chapters in level 3)

Number of chapters per topic for each book in each series

The Fundamentals (U1500) series
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Openings – 2 (8%)

Tactics – 11 (47%)

Calculation – 2 (8%)

Strategy – 2 (8%)

Positional play – 3 (12%)

Endgame – 4 (17%)

Beyond the Basics (U1800) series
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Openings – 4 (17%)

Tactics – 8 (33%)

Calculation – 2 (8%)

Strategy – 2 (8%)

Positional – 4 (17%)

Endgames – 4 (17%)

Mastery (U2100) series
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Openings – 4 (17%)

Tactics – 4 (17%)

Calculation – 4 (17%)

Strategy – 4 (17%)

Positional – 4 (17%)

Endgames – 4 (17%)

Yusupow is one of the strong players. I reviewed his games, but I have yet to take a look at how are these books written.

The books are very logically structured and sequenced. I don't get the impression they were thrown together in a great hurry.

i'm a big of this serie and i have the first 3 books "the fundamentals" =just amazing

I found some pdf sample chapters on this website.  Might be helpful if you're interested in these books.

I haven't worked through them yet, but will try out a couple sample chapters over the next couple weeks and see how it goes. Would love to hear feedback on if the Yusupov books are effective. 

I got one of the middle range (blue) books a year or so ago, really liked it. Each chapter as a well focused lesson, then several excercises to see how well understood it. Much less obscure and unnecessarily hard than Dvorsky series. Quality chess have boxed set of all nine books which recently got. Should keep me busy for awhile.

Well, I just finished working through the three sample chapters (one for each of the orange books).  Overall, I was impressed.  Yusupov gives a short explaination of the topic before launching in to the examples, which are quite educational.  The tests are pretty tough, but worthwhile.  I think I may get the first one and see how it goes.