Winning Chess Middlegames Volume 1: d4 Pawn Structures - Ivan Sokolov (Revised & Expanded edition)


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Winning Chess Middlegames Volume 1 by Ivan Sokolov
An Essential Guide to 1.d4 Pawn Structures

Finally this modern classic is back in print!
Revised Edition. This classic chess manual has now been improved and updated - with more than half of the games replaced by modern examples. Shortlisted for the Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award,  Runner-up for the English Chess Federation 2009 Book of the Year Award and Honourable Mention, CHESS Magazine Best Books of 2009

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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ISBN: Paperback: 9789083387765 / Hardcover: 9789083602264, 344 pages, New in Chess

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John Simmons
Update on a modern classic.

I really rated the first edition of the book, so it was disappointing that the cover of the hardback bought had scratches across it. The cover was bland compared with original, so not such an important third world problem. The book content is great, with 50% new games. I like the new material in the mobile centre section because play semi-tarrasch myself, although as Sokolov admits it is biased for the white side. Have more mixed feelings about the hanging pawns one. The original was nearly complete rep on the Tartakower based on Short's games. This ambitious approach is a nice contrast to Rep books on Tartakower which focus on simple solutions with d5xc4 rather than building up tension. There is some update in new material for Tartakower, but all Short's wins in original removed. In games that remain the analysis is quite changed. Most obviously in the classic Fischer v Spassky game were Sokolov states really goes to great detail in the notes. In new version the annotation is mostly pared down I would guess to lines more closely matching software first choice. For example an approach with a7-a5 was proposed as a nearly universal option in original is not mentioned at all in latest. Other examples are rather dull for black, but holdable, endgame options are not mention the space being used on more dynamic ones. So in summary really excellent context with lots of nice new material but I am glad have old edition too.

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