Pawn Sacrifice! winning at chess the adventurous way - Softcover

Taylor, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857445651 ISBN 13: 9781857445657

Verlag: Everyman Chess, 2008

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Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet curiously they have been neglected in literature... until now. In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor carries out an in-depth study of this major subject. Using an abundance of instructive examples, Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, highlighting the many reasons for their success and indicating the ideal situations in which pawn sacrifices work, as well as those cases in which they are not so effective. The ability to handle pawn sacrifices is one of the most important skills in chess, and enhancing this skill will undoubtedly improve your understanding and results. This book will show you how to do this.

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International Master Timothy Taylor is an experienced tournament player who has enjoyed several notable successes, including winning the US Open. He is also a renowned chess writer; one of his previous books, How to Defeat the Smith-Morra Gambit, became a US Chess Federation bestseller, while his first book for Everyman Chess, Bird's Opening, provoked much positive interest. Outside of chess, he is the author of two published novels, Elaine the Fair and Amanda, and he also directed the film Wicked Pursuits.

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It was the chess legend Philidor who wrote: ?The pawns are the soul of chess , and yet it is these modest infantrymen who are always the first to die for the cause. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature... until now.

In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor carries out an in-depth study of this significant subject. Using an abundance of instructive examples, Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, highlighting the many reasons for their success, indicating the ideal situations in which pawn sacrifices work, as well as showing positions in which they are not so effective. The ability to handle pawn sacrifices is one of the most important skills in chess, and enhancing this skill will undoubtedly improve your understanding and results. This book will show you how to do this.

*An enlightening and entertaining guide to pawn sacrifices

*Covers essential tactical and positional ideas

*Written by a battle-hardened professional player

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It was the chess legend Philidor who wrote: The pawns are the soul of chess , and yet it is these modest infantrymen who are always the first to die for the cause. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature... until now.

In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor carries out an in-depth study of this significant subject. Using an abundance of instructive examples, Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, highlighting the many reasons for their success, indicating the ideal situations in which pawn sacrifices work, as well as showing positions in which they are not so effective. The ability to handle pawn sacrifices is one of the most important skills in chess, and enhancing this skill will undoubtedly improve your understanding and results. This book will show you how to do this.

*An enlightening and entertaining guide to pawn sacrifices

*Covers essential tactical and positional ideas

*Written by a battle-hardened professional player

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Everyman Chess
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1857445651
• ISBN 13: 9781857445657
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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