Winning Chess Middlegames: Volume 1: an Essential Guide to 1.d4 Pawn Structures (1) - Couverture souple

Sokolov, Ivan

 
9789083387765: Winning Chess Middlegames: Volume 1: an Essential Guide to 1.d4 Pawn Structures (1)

Synopsis

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 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ivan Sokolov is a top grandmaster who was born in Bosnia and lives in the Netherlands. He is a former Yugoslav and Dutch Champion and has beaten World Champions Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand. As a coach, he led Uzbekistan to victory at the 2022 Chennai Olympiad. Sokolov has written a dozen highly acclaimed books.

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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 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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

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9789083602264: Winning Chess Middlegames: Volume 1: an Essential Guide to 1.d4 Pawn Structures

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ISBN 10 :  9083602265 ISBN 13 :  9789083602264
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2026
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