Winning Chess Middlegames - An essential guide to Pawn Structures - new edition

Finally this modern classic is back in print!

Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It'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 knowledgeIvan 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.

• Casa editrice New in Chess
• Codice 5930
• Anno 2025
• Pagine 344
• Isbn 9789056917500