Small Steps to Giant Improvement
Small Steps to Giant Improvement by Sam Shankland, published by Quality Chess in 2018, is a comprehensive guide focused on the intricacies of pawn play in chess. With 336 pages, this edition is presented in English and aims to clarify the often complex principles surrounding pawn movements, which are crucial for strategic decision-making in the game. Shankland, a double Olympiad gold medallist, simplifies these concepts, making them accessible to players at all levels.
Readers will find that this book presents foundational guidelines for understanding pawn play, starting with basic examples and gradually advancing to more complex scenarios. Shankland illustrates how these principles can enhance decision-making, even for experienced players, by analyzing situations where grandmasters could have benefited from a better understanding of pawn strategy. This focus on clarity and practical application makes the book a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their chess skills.
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In chess you cannot take your move back, but you can always return a misplaced piece to its former square at the cost of some time. Pawns on the other hand can never move backwards, making pawn moves truly permanent decisions.
This irreversibility makes Pawn Play among the most difficult aspects of chess strategy, which is one reason few books have been written about this topic – and some that have are almost incomprehensible. Double Olympiad gold medallist Sam Shankland has gone the other way – breaking down the principles of Pawn Play to basic, easily understandable guidelines every chess player should know. Shankland starts with extremely simple examples, but then lifts the level, illustrating the universality of the book’s guidelines by showing how grandmasters could have made better decisions by using them.
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