Sokolov, Winning Chess Middlegames

An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures
286 S., kart., Reprint 2017

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 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.
 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forword by Michael Adams
Introduction
Chapter 1
Doubled Pawns: 12 essential structures
Chapter 2
Isolated Pawns: 10 essential structures
Chapter 3
Hanging Pawns: 4 essential structures
Chapter 4
Pawn Majority in the Centre: 7 essential structures
Index of Players
List of Games