Ivan Sokolov, a world famous Grandmaster, has written a lucid guide on how to win chess middlegames by addressing an almost universally ignored but extremely important topic: pawn structures. In very accessible verbal explanations this book helps you to solve the basic problems of chess middlegames: space, tension and initiative. Study of this important book will enhance your middlegame skills and will let you understand why pawns are considered to be 'the souls of chess'. With dozens of highly instructive & clearly explained games from the greats of chess.