Pawn Structure Chess

after you have learned the basics of chess, get this book

Andrew Soltis have always written good books and this one can give you some idears how to treat Pawn strukturs.Especially those openings yo play..

If you want to know in terms of plans following a particular pawn structure than this is a good read. It cover the various standard structures such as the Slav/Caro complex, French, Stonewall, etc and what the plans are the revolve around the pawn structures. This book is hand to know what to think about once you are out of an opening or as a way of looking at the positions you would get if you are thinking of trying a new opening out.A lot of opening books don't cover what the structures are or expect the reader to know what they are already so this fills a useful gap.

great must-read classic written by one of the best ever teachers for the aspiring expert

Thank you.

Got this the other day. A good chess book. Thanks.

excellent book

good book

Everthing fine

Soddisfatto del prodotto...e ottimo servizio puntuale come sempre, ragazzi educati volenterosi gentili alla consegna 👍

Muy buen libro a muy buen precio, actualizado, imprescindible, junto al de Mauricio Flores, para quién quiera estudiar las estructuras de peones.

I am reading Pawn Structure Chess right now. Here's the scoop. I have this book for about a year or so, skimmed it when it arrived, and then shelved it like so many others. A typical scenario I guess. I am an endgame player and until now have always spoken negatively about openings. Many authors such as Soltis himself, Dvoretsky, Aagaard, Giddins, and Nunn, just to name a few, have stated that (paraphrasing) openings are fashionable, or exhaustible. That is to say that what is here today may not be here tomorrow, but this in no way means that one cannot adopt any line of one's choosing and play it consistently. In Studying Chess Made Easy, also by Soltis, he pointed to the "paradoxical" (his word) relationship between memory and understanding i.e. between the openings, and the middlegame. He says 'what good is remembering how to reach a position, or tabiya, if when you get there you don't understand what is going on'? And conversely, what good is learning a middlegame position and its typical plans, if you don't remember how to get there in the first place? To my mind this is not paradoxical at all if the game is viewed as an organic whole. (I am not offering criticism of Soltis in any form. I am simply going to state that for me things took a different course. I have nothing but praise for Soltis and I recommend all of his books. I have six or seven. He is the only American chess author I read. He is a wonderful writer in general, and he really understands his audience). What Pawn Structure Chess does is familiarize you with typical methods of play that are organically connected to the opening. For example, I have (intuitively) played a Slav many times for both colors. But I did NOT know about Tchigorin's ...e5 Plan until Soltis brought it to my attention in Pawn Structure Chess. This 'plan' is well over a hundred years old! What does this mean? Well, it means that I have a lot of research to do. Sometimes, as it is this time for me, a chess book comes along at the right time and fills a gap. And so it is with Pawn Structure Chess. Basically the book is about typical methods of middlegame play based on pawn structure. This is why incidentally Pawn Structure Chess is not an openings book, but a middlegame manual. The layout is highly instructive, simple, and beautiful.

This production is completely faulty - not a page or even a single diagram can be seen. It's a FRAUDULENT PURCHASE !!!!!!