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Small Steps to Giant Improvement 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.
Small Steps to Giant Improvement
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.
5/5 Stars “A beautifully produced hardback… Shankland wins me over by illustrating these guidelines
beautifully… All in all, an excellent, original book.”
5/5 Stars “In the present book, Grandmaster Sam Shankland discusses pawn play, especially the
implications of having far advanced pawns and how to provoke or force them to be pushed too far.
There is also a discussion of doubled pawns from both your own and your opponent’s perspectives.
The book accomplishes its goals very well and the discussions are enlightening even if suited for
stronger players in the intended readership. For players of at least 2000 Elo strength it will certainly
provide first-rate instruction, but for those rated below that it may be a little complex at times.
Nevertheless a self improvement manual well worth studying!”
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