Flores Rios Mauricio. Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide

Chessable, Courses, Chess Strategy, Mar 25, 2019; Quality Chess, 2015. — 464 p. — ISBN-13 978-1784830007.Our expanded edition includes 600+ bonus trainable variations - only on ChessableGain a complete picture of all 28 of the vital, need-to-know pawn structures with this acclaimed work by GM Mauricio Flores Rios, now available on Chessable.Chess Structures is a course so clear and so fundamental it will be of enormous value to a vast range of abilities from 1500 to at least 2300. We are talking about a course here that everyone with any ambition in chess should train.Rios explores plans, patterns, and strategic ideas related to the major pawn structures that always crop up in 140 carefully-selected model games.He also provides 50 test problems to cement your learning - and our team has expanded this with more than 600 extra trainable variations.But the major concern for Rios throughout this course is to ensure students are able to apply the strategic knowledge they learn to a practical game.We are, after all, in the business of winning and that is our aim. Rios never strays away from that.Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide is the complete manual for players who want to underpin their training with the rock-solid foundations you need to build upwards.Highlights include:
🔵 140 carefully-selected model games explaining plans and ideas
🔵 Strategic patterns to observe and typical pitfalls to avoid
🔵 50 carefully-selected test exercises with detailed solutions
🔵 600+ additional trainable exercises with annotationsMauricio Flores Rios is a grandmaster from Chile. He achieved the title at 18, and is a regular member of Chile’s Olympic team. Mauricio combines his career as a chess player and trainer with his PhD studies in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
There is also masses of stuff in the book that made me go 'Oooh!' and 'Aaah!' so I think it will have the same effect on you! In particular, I loved Rios' exposition of White's plan of exerting queenside pressure against Hedgehog systems. I'd seen one of the games he quotes in his chapter but I'd never remotely made any link to a structured way of fighting the Hedgehog structure, so this chapter was a real eye-opener for me...
- GM Matthew Sadler, New in ChessMauricio Flores Rios has made a welcome and important addition to the literature... It seems that a lot of thought went into the pedagogical makeup of the book, and that effort has paid off grandly. This is among the best non-beginner works for learning chess that I’ve seen... Flores Rios does an exceptional job of clearly describing the interrelation between pawn structure and planning, and he offers his readers a stockpile of typical plans and ideas in most of the major pawn configurations. Here’s hoping that this is not the last book we see from this young Grandmaster!
- John Hartmann