Author : Hans Kmoch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486319695
Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.
Author : Jorg Hickl
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056916327
If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern training manual focuses on. Experienced chess teacher Grandmaster Jörg Hickl helps you to recognize the important characteristics of pawn structures, learn how you can and should develop your pieces, identify how you can improve your position and develop a plan of action. This book provides common sense guidance and Jörg Hickl uses practical examples to explain typical structures, strategies and plans. His tips and exercises are both highly enjoyable and to the point.
Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1849941157
Every chess player needs to know how to handle his pawns. Pawns form the 'playing fields' of chess games, a semi-permanent 'structure' that can determine whether a player wins or loses. This comprehensive guide to pawn structure teaches the reader where pieces are best placed, which pawns should be advanced further or exchanged, and why certain structures are good and others disastrous. This invaluable book is a major update of this chess-world classic, first published in 1975 and unavailable for several years.
Author : Angus Dunnington
Publisher : Owl Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780805035780
Illustrates the proper use of the pawn in chess strategy
Author : Charles Hertan
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056914448
A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1,5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so. You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just consider a few important ones. Forget about learning openings and endgames, power moves will help you win in all stages of the game. Charles Hertan introduces the four main characters who will help you to learn these basic skills: Zort (a teenaged computer from the planet Zugszwang), the Dinosaurs, Power Chess Kid and the Chess Professor . The most complete and fun kids book ever on learning how to win games!
Author : Drazen Marovic
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781901983432
This book tackles fundamental questions such as: 'How should pawns be used to fight for the centre?' and 'How does the central pawn formation affect planning for both sides?' These issues are central to understanding chess. Marovic discusses central pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the centre and on the wings. He begins by surveying how the pawn's role in controlling the centre has been developed over the last 150 years, and how this has led to the refinement of concepts suchas the 'dynamic' backward pawn and the positional exchange sacrifice. The bulk of the book is devoted to discussions of the main type of centre: Open Centre; Closed/Blocked Centre; Fixed Centre; and in particular the Mobile/Dynamic Centre.
Author : Sam Shankland
Publisher : Quality Chess
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781784830502
The correct use of the pawns is one of the most difficult aspects of chess strategy, but GM Sam Shankland breaks down the principles of Pawn Play to basic, easily understandable guidelines every chess player should know. He starts with extremely simple examples, but then lifts the level, showing how grandmasters could have made better decisions by using the book's guidelines.
Author : Dražen Marović
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781901983319
Chess owes its strategic depth to pawns, which take many roles in the chess struggle. In this text, an experienced grandmaster explores the pawn's multi-facted nature, and provides the reader with a range of pawn-play concepts.
Author : Ivan Sokolov
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 905691751X
AWARDS: Shortlisted for the Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award Runner-up for the English Chess Federation 2009 Book of the Year Award CHESS Magazine: 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 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 initiative. Club players studying this book 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, neither sparing his colleague grandmasters nor himself in his comments. With a foreword by British Grandmaster Michael Adams.
Author : Alexander Baburin
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780713480092
Pawns are the soul of chess--and one of the aspects of the game that chess computers just don't handle well. This modern guide to pawn structures, written by an experienced grandmaster, analyzes a variety of typical formations, and explains the approaches, patterns, and techniques used by professionals in all phases of the game. The know-how gained from the sample matches presented will give any player a practical advantage on the board.
