Product Description

This is a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted chess related media & organizations. Written by a world famous Grandmaster, this superb volume presents readers with an entertaining and highly instructive guide to an extremely important, yet almost universally ignored chess topic - pawn structures. "Winning Chess Middlegames" offers easy-to-understand explanations that will help players everywhere to solve the issues raised by middle games - space, tension, and initiative. With dozens of instructive and clearly explained games, this will become an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to dramatically improve their game.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46219 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

About the Author
Ivan Solokov has been playing chess for more than 34 years. He earned the title of Grandmaster in 1986, as has been in the top 20-30 players in the world ever since.

Customer Reviews

Good but not complete
The title and the back cover suggest that this covers all typical
pawn structures in chess. But unfortunately that is not true.
The focus is on closed (d4,d5) and semi-closed (d4,Nf6 2.c4,e6) type openings (Nimzo-Indian and Queens Indian). If you play openings like the sicilian, the french defence, the Ruy Lopez, or the King's Indian defence you probably will be disappointed,
and you should consider getting Marovic's book: "Dynamic pawn play" which covers both the Sicilian and the King's Indian well.
Still the topics that are discussed, are worked out very well.
Hence still 4 starts.