Improve Your Middlegame Play

A thorough understanding of the middlegame is essential for any aspiring player wishing to improve their game. This book uses examples from practical play to develop tactical and positional skills and awareness to enable you to make the most of your opportunities in the middlegame. It explains the basic ideas of tactical and positional play, provides numerous exercises for readers to test themselves and has a revolutionary layout to help readers absorb the key ideas. (6 7/8 x 9 5/8, 144 pages, b&w illustrations)

International Master Andrew Kinsman is a leading expert on the Modern Benoni. He achieved a Grandmaster norm in winning the 1997 Wrexham International. Andrew Kinsman is an English International Master and former Everyman Chess editor. His best competitive result to date was his victory in the 1997 Wrexham international tournament, where he achieved his first grandmaster norm.