{"product_id":"winning-chess-middlegames-ivan-sokolov","title":"Winning Chess Middlegames | Ivan Sokolov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunner-up for the English Chess Federation 2009 Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003eCHESS Magazine: Best Books of 2009\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinning 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClub players studying \u003cem\u003eWinning Chess Middlegames\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewill:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- greatly enhance their middlegame skills\u003cbr\u003e-- develop an accurate feeling as to which particular positions suit their style\u003cbr\u003e-- acquire new strategic and practical opening knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Sokolov was born in Bosnia in 1968. He was Yugoslav champion in 1988 and Dutch champion in 1995 and 1998. In his rich career he has beaten world champions Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho should read this book?\u003c\/strong\u003e R\u003cspan\u003eecommended from advanced beginners to strong players who, coming out of the opening more or less ok, doesn't know how to proceed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Chess (online store)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49929354346648,"sku":"ezl1789624963663","price":27.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/9519\/9128\/files\/winning-chess-middlegames-ivan-sokolov_1.jpg?v=1789624969","url":"https:\/\/rivercurve.shop\/products\/winning-chess-middlegames-ivan-sokolov","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}