Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess Author:Drazen Marovic How should pawns be used to fight for the center? How does the central pawn-formation affect planning for both sides? These questions are central to understanding chess and are the primary subject matter of this book. Following on from his successful book "Understanding Pawn Play in Chess", Drazen Marovic now moves on to discuss more complex cen... more »tral pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the center and in the wings. He begins by surveying how the pawn's role in controlling the center has been developed over the last 150 years, and how this has led to the refinement of concepts such as the 'dynamic' backward pawn and the positional exchange sacrifice. The bulk of the book is devoted to discussions of the main types of center: Open Center; Closed/Blocked Center; Fixed Center; Mobile/Dynamic Center. In each case the reader is helped towards a deeper understanding of the key strategic ideas by the author's use of carefully chosen instructive examples from practice.« less