An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures by Ivan SokolovEver wondered why grandmasters take only seconds to see what's really going on in a chess position?It's all about structures, as Ivan Sokolov explains in this groundbreaking book.Winning Chess Middlegames addresses the often ignored but extremely important topic of pawn structures, divided into four main types: doubled pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns and pawn majorities.With its highly accessible verbal explanations and deep analyses of top-level games, this book helps you to solve the basic problems of the middlegame: space, tension and inititative.