Dvoretsky Mark, Yusupov Artur. Attack and Defence

Second Edition. — Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2013. — 856 p. — ISBN: 978-1-936490-74-5. What is the point of an Analytical Manual in modern times, where computers using tablebases and the latest analysis engines seem to be capable of solving almost any question? The answer is easy to provide: There is a huge difference between the search for the objective truth, and a practical...

Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 458 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-015-0. From the Preface: "This book focuses on endgames. There are a lot of things to learn “by heart” about them — but they are oft en diffi cult to apply at the board, unless you get exactly the same position as you studied. This is why I believe it is an interesting approach to present an endgames book as a series of...

Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2017. — 540 p. — ISBN: 978-1-941270-69-1. Doubled Pawns – Triumph or Trouble? There isn’t a chessplayer who hasn’t struggled with doubled pawns. Are they strong because they oversee and surveil important squares or reinforce defensive ramparts? Are they weak, prone to being collected by our opponent in the endgame – or sooner? The easy answer is that it...

Thinkers Publishing, 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-94-9251-001-3. After his outstanding book from 2008, 'Winning Chess Middlegames', Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov takes us a step further into his dungeon of middlegame skills. In his well known style, Sokolov focuses on the different aspects of the complex middlegame. As usual Ivan breaks new ground and provides us with a variety of...

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...

New In Chess, 2009. — 286 p. — ISBN13: 978-9056912642. В файле отсутствуют страницы 6, 220, 282. Ivan Sokolov, a famous grandmaster who has beaten world champions like Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, has written a lucid guide on how to win chess middlegames, by addressing an almost universally ignored but extremely important topic: pawn structures. With very accessible verbal...