Pachman Luděk. Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. — 168 p.The First volume of Ludek Pachman's great trilogy Complete Chess Strategy which first appeared in Czechoslovak and German.
Planning the pieces deals with the long term planning, handling and positioning of the individual chess pieces.
Complete Chess Strategy is the major work available on chess strategy. The series gives a good basic understanding of how chess is played.
Ludek Pachman was a West German and former Czechoslovak grandmaster who had participated in international chess since World War II.
Ludek Pachman was both one of the world's strongest chess grandmasters and one of the world's greatest writers and teachers of the game