Small Steps 2 Success: Mastering Passed Pawn Play

Pawn play is a fundamental aspect of chess strategy, yet often neglected in chess literature. In this, his second book on pawn play, Super-GM Sam Shankland sheds light on the vital topic of Passed Pawns. Your effectiveness in playing with or against passed pawns will make the difference between victory and defeat.

"An excellent quality work by Sam Shankland gives many tips for the readers who want to deal with the topics of passed pawns A lot of new material and an exciting author." -- GM Artur Yusupov, on behalf of the Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award jury

"Sam Shankland not only brings instructive examples but manages to draw the right conclusions from them leading to good guidelines. This is the way strategy books should be written!" -- GM Karsten Müller

"Sam Shankland''s ‘Small Steps 2 Success'' is another book that should appeal to a wide audience. The 2018 U.S. Champion''s first book, ‘Small Steps to Giant Improvement'', received critical acclaim and his new work, packed with loads of instructional material, helpful tips and exercises, should as well." -- IM John Donaldson

Pawn play is a fundamental aspect of chess strategy, yet often neglected in chess literature. In this, his second book on pawn play, Super-GM Sam Shankland sheds light on the vital topic of Passed Pawns.

Passed pawns – whether connected, lone or protected – are common occurrences in middlegames and endgames, and your effectiveness in playing with or against them will make the difference between victory and defeat. Just like in his previous book, Shankland breaks down each topic into a series of crystal-clear guidelines to aid the reader.

Shortlisted for FIDE''s Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award 2019

• | Author: Sam Shankland
• | Publisher: Quality Chess UK LLP
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781784830892
• | ISBN-10: 1784830895