Volume 4

Positional Strategy: Plans, Weaknesses and the Long Game

Structural thinking: pawn weaknesses, outposts, good and bad bishops, piece quality, space, restraint, and the accumulation of small advantages until one of them decides the game.

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What it covers

• Pawn weaknesses and how to attack them
• Outposts, good bishop and bad bishop
• Piece quality, space and restraint
• Accumulating small advantages into a decisive one
• Steinitz and Lasker material — the origin of the modern positional method, explained in current language

What you will be able to do

• Form a plan in a position with no tactics available
• Identify and attack the weakest pawn on the board
• Trade the right pieces instead of the convenient ones
• Accumulate small advantages until one of them decides the game

Inside this volume

1. 1. Weak pawns: isolated, doubled, backward
2. 2. Outposts and square control
3. 3. Good bishop, bad bishop, piece quality
4. 4. Space, restraint and prophylaxis
5. 5. Exchanges: what to keep and what to give
6. 6. Steinitz and Lasker games in modern language
7. 7. Exercises with solutions

Level: Intermediate to advanced (1200–2000) · 250 A4 pages per volume