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Pawn Structure Chess Andrew Soltis
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games

Thanks for making my last few series of posts moot. The French Defence shows us the use of pawn chains and levers in action. It is very often true that just the threat of doing something in chess can cause weaknesses to be created. Has revolutionised the way I think about chess, the beauty I manage to occasionally see in it and even my opening repertoire. What I totally missed was pawn structure imbalances that inform you of whether to keep major pieces on board or not, and if so don't exchange, even if it means not trying to "claim" an open file! 6/06/2010 09:41:00 PM; Blogger Blue Devil Knight said LOL! The Sberbank Rapid Chess Tournament began today in Kiev, Ukraine. In this article a popular pawn structure will be reviewed: when White has pawns on e5 and d4, and Black – on e6 and d5. It is typical of the Caro-Cann, French Defense, and can occur in other variations as well. The Pawn Diamond is one of those inimitable structures. Veselin Topalov sacrificed a pawn in the opening against Sergei Zhigalko, in exchange for a solid pawn structure and good play in the center. What's this sh*t about pawn structure in modern chess? Pawn Formations Part 5: QGA, Some hair brained Ideas. The question prompted me to pull down my Soltis book and take another look at it. Blunderprone; | Jun 19, 2010 at 2:02 PM; | Posted in: Blunderprone's rantings of a chess enthusiast. Andy Soltis, recently wrote a book on Pawn Structure Chess and classifies the major pawn formations into 16 categories. Reader “Kirk” has asked which book is better, Kmoch's Pawn Power in Chess or Soltis' Pawn Structure Chess? Put bluntly, the best chess book I've ever read. I just started reading "Pawn Structure Chess" by GM Andrew Soltis.