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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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Sam Shankland - Small Steps 2 Success (K-5745)
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 versions | English |
Author / Authors | Sam Shankland |
Publisher | Quality Chess |
Publication date | 1st edition 2019 |
Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9781784830908 |
Hardcover | No |
Paperback | Yes |
Downloadable | No |
Width | 17 cm / 6.69 inch |
Height | 24 cm / 9.45 inch |
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.
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