By Ivan Sokolov
Ivan Sokolov, a well-known grandmaster who has overwhelmed global champions like Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, has written a lucid advisor on the right way to win chess middlegames, by means of addressing a virtually universally neglected yet very important subject: pawn buildings. With very obtainable verbal factors this booklet lets you clear up the elemental difficulties of chess middlegames: area, pressure and initiative. research of this crucial e-book, with dozens of hugely instructive and obviously defined video games from the greats of chess, will improve your middlegame talents and may allow you to comprehend why pawns are thought of to be ?the souls of chess?.
Read Online or Download Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures (2nd Edition) PDF
Similar games books
Dungeon Keeper 2 (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)
You're fidgeting with the large boys now, Keeper. This publication can provide the entire area you'll ever need!
• Deep down and soiled secrets and techniques of overall dungeon management
• Maps of each realm, exhibiting each creature, each seize, each secret
• entire stats on all creatures, heroes, spells, and traps
• a close walkthrough of the full campaign
• every thing you must recognize to construct the fitting lethal Dungeon
Liberty, Games and Contracts: Jan Narveson and the Defence of Libertarianism
Jan Narveson is likely one of the most important modern defenders of the libertarian political place. not like different libertarians who quite often shield their view as regards to traditional rights or an entice utilitarianism, Narveson's major contribution has been to supply a philosophical defence of libertarianism in response to a Hobbesian individualist contractarian ethic.
Extra resources for Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures (2nd Edition)
Example text
Xh6! ©c2 Àf5 and Black should win. ©xf4 Àb3. 12. Ãb1 d6! g4 Àb3! Àf6+ ®g7. 12. 13. Ãg5-h4 h7-h6 15. sJ_. j. _R 15. jJsJj. _. _R 13. d7-d5?! A strategic mistake, hitting the wrong pawn and leaving White’s central pawn chain intact. d6! g5! Àf5! g4 Àxc4! gxf5 Àxe5 and Black wins. Note that the variations are very sharp and there is a rather thin line between winning and losing. 14. Ãd3-b1! Keres had underestimated this move. Thanks to his unchallenged central pawn chain White has time to attack.
8. 9. Àg1-h3 Àf6-g8 The regular square for the knight in these positions. It can later jump to g5 (or via f2 to e4) or support the bishop on g5. 9. Àc6-a5 Targeting the only weakness in the white camp. 10. ©a4. 10. Ãe4! Õb1! c4. White has lost a rather irrelevant pawn and won a few tempi to develop his initiative. 11. _. _R 11. 0-0 To castle or not to castle? That is a difficult decision here. d6, with counterplay that is unpleasant for White, hitting the latter’s vulnerable centre. On the other hand, White is ready to attack and the king on g8 could prove to be an easy target.
On the other hand, White is ready to attack and the king on g8 could prove to be an easy target. I believe that with optimal play Black will be better, and White’s centre will be targeted and, eventually, left in ruins. However, the position is very complex and even a player of Keres’s class soon goes astray and at the critical moment does not feel the danger, resulting in disaster. h6! was probably best. d6! d5? Ãb1! Ãxh6! ©c2 Àf5 and Black should win. ©xf4 Àb3. 12. Ãb1 d6! g4 Àb3! Àf6+ ®g7. 12.