Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

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. With his highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analysis of top-level games, Sokolov helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame: space, tension and initiative. Club players studying 'Winning Chess Middlegames' will greatly 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.