Winning Chess Middlegames - Volume 1 (Revised): An Essential Guide to 1.d4 Pawn Structures - Softcover

Ivan Sokolov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9083387763 ISBN 13: 9789083387765

Publisher: New In Chess, 2025

Synopsis

Finally this modern classic is back in print!

Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It's all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.

Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into 4 main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities.

With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level games, this book helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame: space, tension and initiative.

Club players studying Winning Chess Middlegames will:

• greatly enhance their middlegame skills
• develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style
• acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge

Ivan Sokolov explains matters profoundly, honestly and objectively, and includes lots of inside stories from top-level chess, neither sparing his collegue grandmasters nor himself in his comments.

About this title

About the Author

GM Ivan Sokolov is a Yugoslav and twice Dutch Champion with decades of experience of elite chess. His peak rating was over 2700, and his extensive list of scalps includes Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand.

From the Back Cover

Finally this modern classic is back in print!

Ever wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position? It's all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.

Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into 4 main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities.

With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level games, this book helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame: space, tension and inititative.

Club players studying Winning Chess Middlegames will:

greatly enhance their middlegame skills
develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style
acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge
Ivan Sokolov explains matters profoundly, honestly and objectively, and includes lots of inside stories from top-level chess, neither sparing his collegue grandmasters nor himself in his comments.

Edition details

• Publisher: New In Chess
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9083387763
• ISBN 13: 9789083387765
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288