Description
First published in 1959, this book was an international sensation and constituted a milestone in chess literature. It is an original and profoundly stimulating discussion of chess strategy based on details of pawn play that were never previously singled out, labeled and properly explained. The reader becomes aware of such basic relationships as the bishop’s aversion to rams, the knight’s attachment to stops, and the rook’s meek dependency on levers, and he realises why pawns should form duos. Soon he is taken into actual play and shown how pawn power holds the proceedings under its remote control. The magazine Chess summed it up as “one of the few books, like Nimzovich’s My System or Fines’s Basic Chess Endings, which, at a glance, one can recognise as immortal”.
Condition: Good. Descriptive notation.
