Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

by Ivan Sokolov

Shortlisted for the Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award

Runner-up for the English Chess Federation 2009 Book of the Year Award

CHESS Best Books of 2009


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 Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book. ‘Winning Chess Middlegames’ addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into four main 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 space, tension and initiative. Club players studying this book enhance their middlegame skills, develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style and acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge. Ivan Sokolov explains matters profoundly, honestly and objectively including lots of inside stories from top-level chess, neither sparing his colleague grandmasters nor himself in his comments. With a foreword by British Grandmaster Michael Adams.

Genres: Chess

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 25, 2009