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Index
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Contents
Introduction
Explanation of Symbols
Part I – ‘Pawns are the soul of chess’
Chapter 1: The passed pawn
Chapter 2: The protected passed pawn
Chapter 3: Blockading a passed pawn
Chapter 4: A pawn wedge in the enemy camp
Chapter 5: Queening pawns
Chapter 6: Blockading the pawn chain
Chapter 7: Breaking up a pawn chain
Chapter 8: Backward pawns
Chapter 9: Doubled pawns
Chapter 10: Isolated pawns
Chapter 11: Connected pawns
Chapter 12: Hanging pawns
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 15: Pawn breaks
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
Part II – Dynamics
Chapter 21: Open attack
Chapter 22: Discovered check and discovered attacks
Chapter 23: Transferring forces
Chapter 24: Opening lines
Chapter 25: The pin
Chapter 26: The fork
Chapter 27: The double attack
Chapter 28: Interference
Chapter 29: Deflection
Chapter 30: Overloading pieces
Chapter 31: The seesaw
Chapter 32: The ‘Lasker Combination’
Chapter 33: Smothered mate
Chapter 34: Trapping pieces
Chapter 35: Back-rank weakness
Chapter 36: The sacrifice on h7 (h2)
Chapter 37: The attack on f7 (f2)
Chapter 38: Blockading
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 48: Intermediate moves
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 53: The counterattack
Chapter 54: The counterblow
Chapter 55: Unexpected possibilities. ‘Long’ moves
Chapter 56: The intuitive sacrifice
Chapter 57: The positional sacrifice
Chapter 58: Positions with non-standard material balance
Index of games
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