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Pawn Structures Vol.1
Herman Grooten
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In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!

In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures, ones that appear quite often in games and that will be very recognisable to club-chess players. Hence, the topics “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course.

• Video running time: 6 hours 30 Minutes (English)
• With interactive training including video feedback
• Extra: Model Games and Training with ChessBase apps - Play key pawn structures

Contents

1
Introduction
2
Fundamentals Part 1
3
Definitions 1
4
Definitions 2
5
To create doubled pawns: Spiesberger-Galdunts
6
To create doubled pawns: Van Wely-Short
7
To get rid of doubled pawns: Constructed Position
8
To win with tripled pawns: Lysyj-Ernst
9
To play against a backward pawn: Estrin
10
To deal with tension between two pawns: Gerlagh-Mollema
11
Tension: Hibma-Breuker
12
Tension: Fischer-Taimanov
13
Typical structures: Suba-Zadrima
14
Fundamentals Part 2
15
Capture towards the center: Babula-Rustemov
16
Capture off the center: Carlsen-Naiditsch
17
Capture off the center Topalov-Van Wely
18
Capture off the center: Gershon-Shinkevich
19
Capture off the center: Atalik-Metin
20
Capture off the center: Lanchava-Schuurman
21
Release the tension: Sokolov-Marcelin
22
The pawn chain, attacking the base: Moskalenko-Fedorchuk
23
The Isolated Queen's Pawn - attacking plan: Roiz-Beccaris
24
The Passed Pawn: Van der Wiel-Haver
25
Exercises
26
Exercise 1
27
Exercise 2
28
Exercise 3
29
Exercise 4
30
Exercise 5
31
Exercise 6
32
Exercise 7
33
Exercise 8
34
Open and Half-Open File Part 1
35
Backward pawn: Gheorghiu-Shapiro
36
Minority-attack: Van den Berg-Kramer
37
Manoeuvres in front of the pawns: Gashimov-Ivanchuk
38
Open file and seventh rank: Zivanic-Kovacevic
39
Open up files with the king in the center 1: A.Haast-Coenen
40
Open up files with the king in the center 2: Avrukh-Schripkenko
41
Which is the right file? 1: Leniart-Kriebel
42
Which is the right file? 2: Berg-Bareev
43
Open and Half-Open File Part 2
44
Eliminating defender 1: Suba-Spraggett
45
Eliminating defender 2: NN-NN
46
Eliminating defender 3: Anastasian-Chatalbashev
47
Entering the seventh rank 1: Kveinys-Comp
48
Entering the seventh rank 2: Leko-Mamedyarov
49
Demolishing the seventh rank: Fleming-Knopf
50
Queen entering on the right way: Grandelius-Sokolov
51
The back rank 1: NN
52
The back rank 2: Lautier-Onischuk
53
The sixth rank: Kasparov-Gavrikov
54
Exercises
55
Description
56
Exercise 1
57
Exercise 2
58
Exercise 3
59
Exercise 4
60
Exercise 5
61
Exercise 6
62
Exercise 7
63
Exercise 8
64
The Pawn Chain
65
Instructive Example
66
Attacking the chain with White
67
Attacking the chain with Black
68
Demolish the structure 1: Moskalenko-Fedorchuk
69
Demolish the structure 2: Forgacs-Tartakower
70
Demolish the structure 3: Hess-P.Gerlagh
71
Making use of a space advantage: Ostovic-Rogul
72
Standard Sacrifice 1: P.Kuipers-P.Gerlagh
73
Standard Sacrifice 2: Kosten-Adrian
74
King’s Indian Defense Overview
75
Model Game for White: Korchnoi-Van Wely
76
Model Game for Black: Tratat-Ye Jiangchuan
77
Exercises
78
Exercise 1
79
Exercise 2
80
Exercise 3
81
Exercise 4
82
Exercise 5
83
Exercise 6
84
Exercise 7
85
Exercise 8
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