Pawn Structures

Tired of memorizing opening variations? Continuing from where his previous DVD Pawn Structures and How To Play Them leaves off, internationally respected teacher – IM Dr. Danny Kopec – has created a landmark DVD (in two volumes) that uses a unique approach to enable you to improve your opening play.

Pawns provide chess with structure and strategic depth, and this book is a general guide to pawn structures and their importance in forming and executing plans.

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.

Pawns are the soul of chess–and one of the aspects of the game that chess computers just don't handle well. This modern guide to pawn structures, written by an experienced grandmaster, analyzes a variety of typical formations, and explains the approaches, patterns, and techniques used by professionals in all phases of the game. The know-how gained from the sample matches presented will give any player a practical advantage on the board.