Following on from his successful book Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen, Valeri Beim serves up a further series of lessons on important general chess topics.

His helpful advice will help you to handle a whole range of typical situations with greater confidence and understanding.

These include:
  -- geometry of the chessboard
  -- symmetrical pawn-structures
  -- space advantage
  -- central passed pawn in the middlegame
  -- static and dynamic features.

In each chapter there are exercises for the reader, with full solutions given.

Read the review by Matthew Sadler
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