Sam Shankland - Small Steps 2 Success (K-5745)

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In chess you cannot take your move back, but you can always return a misplaced piece to its former square at the cost of some time. Pawns on the other hand can never move backwards, making pawn moves truly permanent decisions.

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Language versionsEnglish
Author / AuthorsSam Shankland
PublisherQuality Chess
Year of Publication1st edition 2019
Pages336
ISBN9781784830908
HardcoverNo
PaperbackYes
DownloadableNo
Width17 cm / 6.69 inch
Height24 cm / 9.45 inch

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This irreversibility makes Pawn Play among the most difficult aspects of chess strategy, which is one reason few books have been written about this topic – and some that have are almost incomprehensible. Double Olympiad gold medallist Sam Shankland has gone the other way – breaking down the principles of Pawn Play to basic, easily understandable guidelines every chess player should know. Shankland starts with extremely simple examples, but then lifts the level, illustrating the universality of the book’s guidelines by showing how grandmasters could have made better decisions by using them.

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In chess you cannot take your move back, but you can always return a misplaced piece to its former square at the cost of some time. Pawns on the other hand can never move backwards, making pawn moves truly permanent decisions.

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Content

004 Key to symbols used

005 Preface

009 Introduction

015 Part I – Passed Pawns in the Middlegame

017 1. Identical Twins

039 2. Unstoppable and Immovable

065 3. Single and Happy

087 4. Single on Valentine’s Day

113 5. Safety and Inevitability

133 6. Divide and Conquer

155 Part II – Passed Pawns in the Endgame

157 7. Inevitable Graduation

183 8. Slowing the Invasion

213 9. Support Your Local Vigilante

239 10 Dealing with the Last Man Standing

263 11. The Rack

283 12. Building a Smaller Home

309 13. My Pawn is Bigger than Yours

327 14. Long Distance Relationships

352 Game Index

356 Name Index

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