Contents
Part I – ‘Pawns are the soul of chess’
Chapter 2 The protected passed pawn
Chapter 3 Blockading a passed pawn
Chapter 4 A pawn wedge in the enemy camp
Chapter 6 Blockading the pawn chain
Chapter 7 Breaking up a pawn chain
Chapter 13 A pawn majority/minority in a certain area of the board. The Minority Attack
Chapter 14 Weakening the opponent’s pawn structure
Chapter 16 Destroying the enemy pawn centre
Chapter 17 A blow at the most heavily-defended point
Chapter 18 The solidity of the king’s cover
Chapter 19 The attack with the rook’s pawn
Chapter 20 Destroying the king’s pawn cover
Chapter 22 Discovered check and discovered attacks
Chapter 23 Transferring forces
Chapter 32 The ‘Lasker Combination’
Chapter 36 The sacrifice on h7 (h2)
Chapter 37 The attack on f7 (f2)
Chapter 39 The importance of the seventh rank
Chapter 40 The attack on the uncastled king
Chapter 41 The attack on the king
Chapter 42 Drawing out the king
Chapter 43 The king in a mating net
Chapter 44 The attack on opposite flanks / opposite-side castling
Chapter 45 Bringing unused pieces into the attack
Chapter 46 Eliminating defenders
Chapter 47 Exploiting diagonals
Chapter 49 Luring enemy pieces to bad squares
Chapter 50 Freeing squares and lines for the attack
Chapter 51 Unstable position of pieces, X-rays
Chapter 52 Quiet moves / prophylaxis in the middle of an attack
Chapter 55 Unexpected possibilities. ‘Long’ moves
Chapter 56 The intuitive sacrifice
Chapter 57 The positional sacrifice