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As entire books have been written on a single pawn structure, the isolated queen pawn, for instance, it seemed reasonable to break the middlegame into two parts, winning chess. Also running strongly were the old kereskotov title the art of the middle game, kotovs think like a grandmaster, avnis danger in chess and krogius psychology in. This is what defines the role of the move, the unit of time in chess. Ludek pachman complete chess strategy 1 first principles of the middlegame. Move by move by cyrus lakdawala february 2015 lessons with a grandmaster ii by boris gulko and dr. Testadministrators, please read text in this box aloud. Storer announced that chess on an nxn board is pspacehard i0. This is the first of a three volume set of instructional books, expanded from the original book first published in 1963.
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