Kmoch Hans. Pawn Power in Chess

Batsford, 2000. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-0713480092. 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...

New In Chess, 2016. — 192 p. 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...

Thinkers Publishing, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-020-4. In modern chess practice, the theory of the opening often stretches into the middlegame, sometimes quite deeply. When players choose particular opening variations, they are in essence deciding on the type of middlegame in which they would like to fight their opponents. In this second volume of my "Chess Middlegame...

Batsford, 2013. — 439 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84994-070-2. Pawns form the “playing fields” of chess, a semipermanent “structure” that can determine whether a player wins—or loses. This major update to the classic guide to pawn structure, written by international Grandmaster Andrew Soltis, teaches readers how to handle their pawns. He explains where best to place them, which pawns to...

New York: Dover Books, 2002. — 169 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486424200. "Simple Chess" is an introduction to chess strategy aimed primarily at those players for whom strategy in chess is an almost impenetrable mystery. Michael Stean explains the art of chess strategy and how to obtain overwhelming positions by the application of plain, clear, easily understandable positional ideas with...

Quality Chess, 2016. — 2612 p. Winner of the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE (the World Chess Federation) as the best instructional chess books in the world (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Mark Dvoretsky in 2nd and 3rd place) Quality Chess is proud to be the publisher of Artur Yusupov's complete course of chess training. Stretching to nine volumes, Yusupov guides the...