Finally this modern classic is back in print! Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what 39;s really going on in a chess position? It 39;s all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.
Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into 4 main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities.
With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level games, this book helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame: space, tension and inititative.
Club players studying Winning Chess Middlegames will: -- greatly enhance their middlegame skills -- develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style -- acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge Ivan Sokolov explains matters profoundly, honestly and objectively, and includes lots of inside stories from top-level chess, neither sparing his collegue grandmasters nor himself in his comments.
Types | Doubled pawns isolated pawns hanging pawns and pawn majorities |
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With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level games, this book helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame | Space tension and inititative |
Middlegames will | greatly enhance their middlegame skills develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge |