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Publisher: Gambit, 2000
Edition: Paperback large
Pages: 208
Language: English

Chess owes its extraordinary depth to pawns. These humble pieces can take on many roles in the chess struggle. They can be blockers, battering-rams, self-sacrificing heroes, and can even be promoted to the ranks of royalty. On the other hand, if mishandled, they can be weak and provide targets for enemy attack. In this book, experienced grandmaster and trainer Drazen Marovic elucidates the pawn's multi-faceted nature. By investigating high-quality games from grandmaster practice, he provides the reader with an armoury of pawn-play concepts that will help him or her to make the right judgements at the board.

Drazen Marovic is a grandmaster from Croatia, who has won medals as both player and trainer for various national teams. His pupils include Bojan Kurajica, World Under-20 Champion in 1965, and Al-Modiahki of Qatar, the first Arabian grandmaster.

Publisher's recommendation

Matthew Sadler in New in Chess Magazine: (...) 'I found a great deal of this book extremely enjoyable. This was entirely due to the quality of the examples used to illustrate the various pawn structures. Just by playing through them and thinking about them in general terms, I felt I'd learnt a lot of new stuff'.