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Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide To 1.e4 Pawn Structures, Volume 2 is a chess book from Everyman Chess by Ivan Sokolov, focused on the middlegame patterns that arise from 1.e4 openings.
This companion guide to the 2010 bestseller expands the study from 1.d4 structures to 1.e4 positions. It covers a dozen topical structures, including variations in the flexible Ruy Lopez, Italian and Petroff openings, plus Black's doubled f-pawn in the Rauzer Sicilian, the Maroczy Bind, the Hedgehog, the Sveshnikov, and the French Winawer. Deeply analysed top-level games illustrate the ideas in each structure.
Club players who study Winning Chess Middlegames 1.e4 or 1.d4 can improve their middlegame skills, develop a better sense of which positions suit their style, and gain new strategic and practical opening knowledge.
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