Sokolov: Die hohe Schule des Mittelspiels BILD ZU KLEIN 9 0-0-0 d5 10 Qe1

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a player often does not know what plan to follow or why his pieces are in the squares he has moved them to

'Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship

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American International Master David Vigorito shows that this negative approach is unnecessary

Sokolov: Die hohe Schule des Mittelspiels BILD ZU KLEIN 9 0-0-0 d5 10 Qe1Winning in d4 pawn structures Have you ever wondered how grandmasters can tell in a matter of seconds what is really going on in a chess position? It's all just a question of structure, as Ivan Solokov explains in this groundbreaking work. The high school of the middle game in chess deals with the often neglected but extremely important topic of pawn structures, which are divided into four main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and