Every chess player needs to know how to handle his pawns. Pawns form the ‘playing fields’ of chess games, a semi-permanent ‘structure’ that can determine whether a player wins or loses. This comprehensive guide to pawn structure teaches the reader where pieces are best placed, which pawns should be advanced further or exchanged, and why certain structures are good and others disastrous. This invaluable book is a major update of this chess-world classic, first published in 1975 and unavailable for several years.

About the author:

International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is a professional journalist (writes for the New York Post) and popular chess writer. He is the author of many books including The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess, Transpo Tricks in Chess and How to Choose a Chess Move .

Content:

005 Introduction

018 Chapter One: The Caro-Slav Family

042 Chapter Two: The Slav Formation

061 Chapter Three: The Open Sicilian/English

130 Chapter Four: Chain Reactions

156 Chapter Five: The e5 Chain

173 Chapter Six: The King's Indian Complex

193 Chapter Seven: The Queen's Gambit Family

218 Chapter Eight: The Panov Formation

229 Chapter Nine: Stonewalls And Other Prisons

245 Chapter Ten: The Nimzo-Gruenfeld Formation

260 Chapter Eleven: The Lopez Formation

273 Chapter Twelve The Closed Sicilian/English