UNDERSTANDING PAWN PLAY IN CHESS (Drazen Marovic)
208
pages (210 mm by 145 mm).
£14.99/$21.95/€23,45
Chess owes its extraordinary depth to pawns. These humble
pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers,
battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks
of royalty. On the other hand, if mishandled, they can be weak and provide
targets for enemy attack. In this book, experienced grandmaster and trainer
Drazen Marovic elucidates the pawn's multi-faceted nature. By investigating
high-quality games from grandmaster practice, he provides the reader with an
armoury of pawn-play concepts that will help him or her to make the right
judgements at the board.
Drazen Marovic is a grandmaster from Croatia, who has
won medals as both player and trainer for various national teams. His pupils
include Bojan Kurajica, World Under-20 Champion in 1965, and Al-Modiahki of
Qatar, the first Arabian grandmaster.
"...uses good examples, explains them well, and ties
concepts together with useful introductions and summaries" - Randy Bauer,
RANDY'S REVIEWS
"The book would be an ideal study companion for an improving
beginner or an average club play who wants to improve his/her handling of pawn
structures" - Alan Sutton, EN PASSANT
"Understanding Pawn Play in Chess, which features the
superior production values typical of Gambit Publication books, can be
recommended without reservation to all players between 1800-2200 and even those
up to 2400 will find much of interest. " - John Donaldson, INSIDE CHESS ONLINE,
BLITZ CHESS
"...some of the modern games Marovic has selected are surely
destined to be regarded as classics in the future. Highly recommended to
ambitious students of the game" - Phil Adams, MANCHESTER CHESS SCENE
"Contains over 100 complete games, each demonstrating a
particular pawn strategy...an excellent book" - Alan Borwell, SCOTTISH
CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
"Serious study of this book will reward any player,
regardless of their standard" - IM Danny Gormally, WEEKEND CHESS
"GM Marovic utilises all his experience as a GM and trainer
to outline appropriate strategies associated with specific pawn structures:
isolated pawns (specifically IQP), isolated pawn couples, hanging pawns,
passed, doubled and backward pawns, pawn chains and pawn islands. This
approach... has of course been attempted before, but not, that I have seen,
with such clarity as in this book" Jonathan Tait, BCCA
"My favourite chapter is the final one - that on pawn
islands... a fine addition to chess literature" - John Pugh, CHESS POST
"... a fine choice of games to illustrate important ideas.
By using words where some authors would use a maze of variations we have a
clear and very readable treatise on a subject which will prove of great
interest to players of all levels" - Monroe Morrison, OPEN FILE
"His writing is instructive, based on an excellent choice
of games to stress his points" - GM Lubosh Kavalek, WASHINGTON POST
Download a pdf file with a
sample from the book.
Gambit books by Marovic: Dynamic
Pawn Play in Chess, Secrets of Chess
Transformations, Secrets of Positional
Chess, Understanding Pawn Play in
Chess. |
