Pawn Masses (Chess is Fun)

Here are useful and simple rules of thumb: Two connected passed pawns on the 5th rank are generally worth a knight or bishop; Two connected passers on the 6th rank are generally worth a rook; And two connected passers on the 7th are generally worth a queen.

But what’s the value of having more than two advanced connected passers? There’s nothing in chess as intimidating as a pawn storm, a cluster of connected pawns rolling down the board as part of a coordinated attack. That’s what this e-book explores in an assortment of interesting games, all of which involve remarkable pawn masses.

Unlike many other inexpensive chess e-books, these are fully annotated in understandable, simple language. The profuse use of diagrams make these among the first chess books that you can read WITHOUT A BOARD at your side.

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999.

Pawn Masses (Chess is Fun)

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Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook E

Comprehensive Chess Endings is a five volume master work by one of the world's leading authorities on the Chess Endgames, Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh. Grandmaster Averbakh is now the World's Oldest Grandmaster. He was born on February 8, 1922. He is now 90 years old and is still active in chess. This series was originally published in Russian. Ishi Press has published the Russian Language version of volume 2. That is Averbakh Chess Endings Bishop against Knight, Rook against Minor Pieces ISBN 4871875024. We will try to reprint the other volumes if we can ever find them, as they are difficult to obtain. These English versions are direct translation from the Russian except that the order of the volumes has been changed. The contents are exactly the same, other than the translation from Russian to English. These volumes in this series were first published in the Soviet Union in 1954 with a blue hard cover.

Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook E

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Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings

This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games), based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped win Kasparov and Spassky championships. Black learns the Classical Tarrasch, Symmetrical Tarrasch, Asymmetrical Tarrasch, Marshall and Tarrasch gambits, and Tarrasch without Nc3, to achieve early equality or even an outright advantage in the first few moves. This is an important opening book for aggressive players looking for an edge.

Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings

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Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

Ivan Sokolov, a famous grandmaster who has beaten world champions like Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand, has written a lucid guide on how to win chess middlegames, by addressing an almost universally ignored but extremely important topic: pawn structures. With very accessible verbal explanations this book helps you to solve the basic problems of chess middlegames: space, tension and initiative. Study of this important book, with dozens of highly instructive and clearly explained games from the greats of chess, will enhance your middlegame skills and will let you understand why pawns are considered to be ?the souls of chess?.

Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures

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Position and Pawn Tension in Chess

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Position and Pawn Tension in Chess

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