Understanding Pawn Play in Chess

Description of Understanding Pawn Play in Chess

Chess owes its extraordinary strategic depth to pawns. These humble pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers, battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks of royalty. This book elucidates the pawn's multi-faceted nature. The author, an experienced grandmaster and trainer, tackles a fundamental chess topic, and by investigating high-quality games from grandmaster practice, provides an armory of pawn-play concepts that will help the reader make the right judgments at the board. Includes chapters on isolated pawns, hanging pawns, passed pawns, doubled pawns, backward pawns, pawn-chains, and pawn-islands.

Specifications for Understanding Pawn Play in Chess

• Item #: GA3315
• Skill Level: All levels (1000+)
• Publisher: Gambit
• ISBN: 1901983315
• # Pages: 192
• Author: Drazen Marovic
• Book Category: Strategy
• Cover: Paperback
• Year Published: 2000