Chess Strategy - Revealed

"Every serious trainer must insist on strategy work, because strategy will be a powerful and probably decisive weapon against players who neglected it in their own chess study." That was the author's motivation to write this book, aiming to present crucial elements and principles of strategy and to reveal its secrets to all chess players. After carefully studying the book you will be fully equipped with strategic concepts and patterns, and you will surely catch 'how it works' in a chess game.

Key concepts of Chess Strategy: 

• Center
• Open files
• Bishop pair
• Squares
• Space

Pawn Structures:

• Passed pawn
• Hanging pawns
• Pawn majority
• Doubled pawns
• Isolated pawns
• Backward pawn
• Pawn chains
• Pawn islands
• Weaknesses

Principles of Chess Strategy:

• Harmony
• Activity and Initiative
• Restriction
• Prophylactic play

From the Foreword by GM Dragoljub Jacimovic:

"I know that this book has been prepared for a long time, and being familiar with the author’s methodology and the huge number of games from which he selected the most instructive jewels, I truly believe that this work will be an exemplary book worthy of every praise and highly useful to players of different categories."