Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.1 - 11, Ivan Sokolov (English)

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Minor sacrifices
• Game 1: Jussupow-Ivanchuk
• Game 2: Carlsen-Giri
• Game 3: Torre-Karpov
• Game 4: Anand-Nikolic
• Game 5: Caruana-Carlsen
• Game 6: Piket-Kasparov
• Pawn rollers
• Game 1: Kasparov-Timman
• Game 2: Gelfand-Morozevich
• Game 3: Gelfand-Dreev
• Game 4: Duda-Eljanov
• Voluntary creation of a pawn island
• So-Topalov
• g & h-pawns – dynamic ideas
• Game 1: Korchnoi-Polugaevsky
• Game 2: Gelfand-Jussupow
• Game 3: Korchnoi-Suetin
• Game 4: Nepomniachtchi-Bacrot
• Game 5: Svidler-Mamedyarov
• Exercises
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Introduction
• What to trade what to keep
• Game 1: Botvinnik-Donner
• Game 2: Kasparov-Karpov
• Game 3: Volokitin-Mamedyarov
• Game 4: Ganguly-Nguyen
• Game 5: Kasparov-Timman
• Game 6: Carlsen-So
• Game 7: Carlsen-Dreev
• King on f8 defends itself
• Game 1: Fischer-Hook
• Game 2: Caruana-Naroditsky
• Game 3: Van Foreest-Van der Lende
• Game 4: Kasparov-Timman
• Open file
• Game 1: Kasimdzhanov-Li Chao
• Game 2: Korchnoi-Bronstein
• Game 3: Karjakin-Gelfand
• Creating crises
• Game 1: Galkin-Kramnik
• Game 2: Korchnoi-Timman
• Game 3: Swinkels-Sokolov
• Game 4: Gurevich-Sokolov
• Exercises
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Hedgehog - Part 1
• Introduction and Fischer vs Andersson
• Black pushes the g-pawn: Charbonneau vs Anand
• Regrouping: Kasparov vs Kramnik
• h-pawn push: Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov
• White fights the h-pawn push: Radjabov vs Kamsky
• Aggressive ideas for White
• White castles kingside and pushes the g-pawn: J. Van Foreest vs Bilguun
• Kingside pawn roll: Cramling vs Gruenfeld
• Hedgehog - Part 2
• Dark square control: Tal vs Polugaevsky
• White pushes the a-pawn: Agrest vs Nisipeanu
• White pushes the a-pawn 2: Firouzja vs Vachier-Lagrave
• Doubled-pawns: Acs vs Polgar
• Doubled-pawns 2: Eljanov vs Kudrin
• White castles queenside
• Diagonal domination: Romanishin vs Petrosian
• Diagonal domination 2
• Pawn structure change: Carlsen vs Wojtaszek
• Practice positions
• Description
• Position 1 - Black to move
• Position 1 - White to move
• Position 2 - Black to move
• Position 2 - White to move
• Position 3 - Black to move
• Position 3 - White to move
• Position 4 - Black to move
• Position 4 - White to move
• Position 5 - Black to move
• Position 5 - White to move
• Position 6 - Black to move
• Position 6 - White to move
• Hanging Pawns in the center
• Hanging pawns in the center: Capablanca vs Alekhine
• Hanging pawns in the center: Bok vs Grischuk
• Hanging pawns in the center: Petrosian vs Spassky
• Hanging pawns in the center: Sokolov vs Riazantsev
• Hanging pawns in the center: Carlsen vs Hou Yifan
• Hanging pawns in the center: Carlsen vs Aronian
• Hanging pawns in the center: Kasparov vs Portisch
• Hanging pawns in the center: Korchnoi vs Geller
• Isolated Pawns
• Active Play: Beliavsky vs Illescas Cordoba
• Transformation: Petrosian vs Spassky
• Transformation: Kasparov vs Illescas Cordoba
• Transformation: Zueger vs Kasparov
• Transformation: Smyslov vs Kasparov
• Transformation: Larsen vs Kasparov
• Transformation: Van Wely vs Grischuk
• Rauzer structure
• Pawn sacrifice: Klovans vs Tal
• Pawn Sacrifice: Ragger vs Salgado Lopez
• Pawn sacrifice: Gan-Erdene vs Maghsoodloo
• Pawn sacrifice: Geller vs Larsen
• Practice positions
• Description
• Hanging pawns 1
• Hanging Pawns 2
• Hanging pawns 3
• Hanging pawns 4
• Hanging pawns 5
• Hanging pawns 6
• Hanging pawns 7
• Isolated pawn 1
• Isolated pawn 2
• Isolated pawn 4
• isolated pawn 4
• Isolated pawn 5
• Isolated pawn 6
• Rauzer 1
• Rauzer 2
• Rauzer 3
• Rauzer 4
• Rauzer 5
• Introduction
• Rossolimo Structures
• Rossolimo Structures: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5
• Video 1: 3...g6 4.0-0 Bg7 5.Re1 Nf6 6.e5 Nd5 7.Nc3 Nc7 8.Bxc6 dxc6 Rozentalis vs Carlsen
• Video 2: 3...g6 4.0-0 Bg7 5.Re1 e5 6.a3 Nge7 7.b4 and 6.c3 Nge7 7.a3 0-0 8.b4 Botvinnik vs Furman/Veresov
• Video 3a: 3...Nf6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 and 4.e5 Nd5 5.0-0/Nc3
• Video 3b: 3...Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Nc3 Nc7 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7.h3 g6 Adams vs Kramnik
• Video 4a: 3...g6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.0-0 Bg7 6.Re1 Nf6/f6/e5
• Video 4b: 3...g6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.d4 Vachier-Lagrave vs Carlsen
• Video 5a: 3...g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Qc7 and 5...Bg7 6.h3 Nh6/e5
• Video 5b: 3...g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Bg7 6.h3 Nf6 Caruana vs Carlsen
• Video 5c: 3...g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Bg7 6.0-0 Caruana vs Carlsen
• Video 6: 3...e6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.d3
• Maroczy Structures
• 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3
• Video 1a: 7...Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Qd2 d6 11.Be2 Bd7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Rac1 Bc6 14.b4 Keres vs Petrosian
• Video 1b: 7...Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Qd2 d6 11.Be2 Bd7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Rac1 Bc6 14.Rfd1 Keres vs Petrosian
• Video 2: 7...Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Qd2 b6 and 10.Rc1 Qa5 11.Be2/Qd2
• Video 3: 7...Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Nc6 10.Qd2 d6/Qa5
• Video 4: 7...0-0 8.Be2 d6 9.0-0 Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6 Carlsen vs Lie
• Video 5: 6.Nc3 Nxd4 7.Qxd4 d6 8.Be2/Bg5 - a5 ideas
• Video 6: 6.Nc3 d6 7.f3 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 Bg7 9.Be3 0-0 10.Qd2 a5 11.b3 Caruana vs Carlsen
• Video 7: 6.Nc3 Nxd4 7.Qcd4 d6 8.f3 Bg7 9.Be3 0-0 10.Qd2 Be6 11.Rc1 Qa5 12.Nd5 Qxd2 13.Kxd2 Endgame and 12.b3 Rfc8 13.g4
• Video 8: 7...Ng4 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Qd2 d6 11.Be2 Bd7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Rad1 Bc6 Larsen vs Petrosian
• Exercises
• Description
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 14
• Exercise 15
• Introduction
• Ruy Lopez Structures
• 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3
• Video 1: Zaitsev 9...Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Ng5 Rf8 12.Nf3 Re8 13. a4 h6 14.Nbd2 Bf8 15.Bc2 Qd7 Shirov vs Sokolov
• Video 2: Breyer 9...Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 c5 13.Nf1 Re8 14.d5 g6 Svidler vs Sokolov
• Video 3: Breyer 9...Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 c5 13.d5 g6 14.Nf1 Qc7 Cheparinov vs Sokolov
• Video 4: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.d5 Nd8 14.a4 Rb8 15.c4 b4 16.b3 Bogoljubow vs Rubinstein
• Video 5: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.d5 Nd8 14.a4 Rb8 15.c4 Bd7 Stein vs Ivkov
• Video 6: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nd7 12.d5 Nb6 13.g4 h5 Fischer vs Keres
• Video 7: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bd7 13.Nf1 Nc4 14.d5 Nb6 Kasparov vs Petrosian
• Video 8: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bd7 13.Nf1 Rfe8 14.d5 c4 Landa vs Nikolic
• Video 9: Breyer 9...Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf8 14.Ng3 g6 Vachier-Lagrave vs Amin
• Video 10: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bd7 13.Nf1 cxd4 14.cxd4 Rac8 15.Ne3 Rfe8 Spassky vs Keres
• Video 11: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 13.cxd4 Rd8 14.Nf1 exd4 15.Nxd4 d5 Grischuk vs Bologan
• Video 12: Zaitsev 9...Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4 h6 13.Bc2 exe4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.Bb1 c5 16.d5 Nd7 Kasparov vs Karpov
• Video 13: Zaitsev type position 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0-0 8.Re1 Re8 9.Nbd2 Bf8 10.h3 b5 11.Bc2 Bb7 12.d4 g6 Carlsen vs Navara
• Video 14: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Bb7 13.Nf1 cxd4 14.cxd4 Rac8 15.Bb1 Unzicker vs Keres
• Video 15: Open Spanish 5...Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Bc5 10.Nbd2 0-0 11.Bc2 Nxf2 Short - Yussupow
• Video 16: Chigorin 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.dxc5 dxc5 14.Nf1 Be6 Fischer - Kholmov
• Exercises
• Description
• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 11
• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 14
• Exercise 15
• Introduction
• Dynamic Catalan
• Catalan vs. Semi-Slav / Triangle pawn structure
• Game 1: Lysyj - Lupulescu
• Game 2: Giri - Morozevich
• Game 3: Esipenko - Kacharava
• Game 4: Nakamura - Lendermann
• Game 5: Kramnik - Giri
• Game 6: Sokolov - Vallejo
• Game 7: Sokolov - Bok
• Game 8: Deac - Berkes
• Game 9: Sokolov - Caruana
• Exercises
• Description
• Exercise 1: Esipenko - Kacharava
• Exercise 2: Esipenko - Keymer
• Exercise 3: Espienko - Kacharava
• Exercise 4: Sokolov - Caruana
• Exercise 5: Sokolov - Caruana
• Exercise 6: Deac - Berkes
• Exercise 7: Lysyj - Lupulescu
• Exercise 8: Sokolov - Bok
• Exercise 9: Salem - Niemann
• Exercise 10: Nakamura - Lendermann
• Exercise 11: Salem - Gusain
• Exercise 12: Gelfand - Steinberg
• Exercise 13: Giri - Morozevich
• Exercise 14: Nakamura - Lendermann
• Introduction
• Intro
• French - Winawer
• 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4
• Game 1: Fischer - Larsen
• Game 2: Spassky - Korchnoi
• Game 3: Ivkov - Portisch
• Game 4: Anand - Nikolic
• Game 5: Santos - Rapport
• Game 6: Anand - Ponomariov
• Game 7: Ponomariov - Ivanchuk
• Bonus: 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 Nunn - Korchnoi
• Exercises
• Description
• Exercise 1: Anand - Nikolic
• Exercise 2: Anand - Ponomariov
• Exercise 3: Anand - Ponomariov
• Exercise 4: Fischer - Larsen
• Exercise 5: Fischer - Larsen
• Exercise 6: Ivkov - Portisch
• Exercise 7: Ponomariov - Ivanchuk
• Exercise 8: Spassky - Korchnoi
• Practice positions
• Description
• Position 1
• Position 2
• Position 3
• Bonus
• Analysis
• Exercises
• Introduction
• French - Tarrasch
• 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5
• Game 1: Van der Wiel - Korchnoi
• Game 2: Karpov - Korchnoi (Leningrad 1971)
• Game 3: Karpov - Korchnoi (Candidates 1974)
• Game 4: Karpov - Korchnoi (Baguio 1978)
• Game 5: Karpov - Vaganian
• Game 6: Kasparov - Short
• Bonus videos
• 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5: Ponomariov - Ivanchuk
• 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5/Nc3: Movsesian - Gurevich // Bologan - Gurevich // Baramidze - Prusikin
• Exercises
• Description
• Exercise 1: Karpov - Korchnoi
• Exercise 2: Kasparov - Bareev
• Exercise 3: Kasparov - Shirov
• Exercise 4: Kasparov - Shirov
• Exercise 5: Movsesian - Gurevich
• Exercise 6: Nunn - Korchnoi
• Introduction
• Intro
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nd2 & Be3
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nd2 & Be3
• 4.Nd2 e6 5.Nb3 c5 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Nxc5 Qa5+ 8.c3 Qxc5: Giri vs Salem
• 4.Be3 e6 5.Nd2 Nd7 6.Ngf3 Bg6 7.Be2 Ne7 8.Nh4 c5: Carlsen vs Wang Hao
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3
• 4...e6 5.Be2 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2/c3: Sjugirov vs Carlsen
• 4...e6 5.a3 Ne7 6.Nbd2 Nd7 7.Nh4 c5: Short vs Karpov
• 4... e6 5.Be2 c5 6.Be3 Nd7 7.0-0 Ne7 8.c4: Shirov vs Eljanov
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 Ne7 7.Nf4 c5: Shirov vs Bareev
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3
• 4...Qb6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Be2 Nd7 7.0-0 Ne7: Shirov vs Hracek
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 Be7: Adhiban vs Idani
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 Ne7 7.Nf4 c5 8.dxc5 Nec6 9.h4: Shirov vs Bareev
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Neg2 Ne7 7.Nf4 c5 8.dxc5 Nd7 9.h4: Kasparov vs Karpov
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 Ne7 7.f4: Anand vs Karpov
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.Be3: Kasparov vs Navara
• 4...e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4: Shirov vs Topalov
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 & c4
• 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 & c4
• 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Bd7 6.Nd2 c5: Kramnik vs Leko
• 4.h4 h5 5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 Qa5+: Shirov vs Bareev
• 4.h4 h5 5.c4 e6 6.Nc3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 Nd7: Shirov vs Lobron
• 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.cxd5 Qxd5 7.Nge2 Qd8: Carlsen vs Fedoseev
• Practice Positions
• 4.Nf3 (black bishop on c7) - White to move
• 4.Nf3 (black bishop on c7) - Black to move
• 4.Nc3 (White has initiative but no c-pawn) - White to move
• 4.Nc3 (White has initiative but no c-pawn) - Black to move
• 4.h4 (White took space, Black's bishop retreated to d7) - White to move
• 4.h4 (White took space, Black's bishop retreated to d7) - Black to move
• 4.Nf3 (unusual doubled f-pawns) - Black to move
• 4.Nf3 (unusual doubled f-pawns) - White to move
• 4.Nf3 (typical central dynamics) - Black to move
• 4.Nf3 (typical central dynamics) - White to move
• 4.h4 (Seemingly dominant Knight) - White to move
• 4.h4 (Seemingly dominant Knight) - Black to move
• Exercises
• Exercises
• Bonus
• Extensive Analysis
• More Games
• Introduction
• Introduction
• 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 - Black takes on d4
• Structures with Black taking on d4
• 7.0-0 Na6 8.Be3 c6 9.h3 exd4 Nxd4 Re8: Keymer vs Rapport
• 7.0-0 Na6 8.Re1 Bg4 9.Be3 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 exd4 11.Bxd4 c6: Rasmussen vs Nisipeanu
• 7.0-0 Nbd7 8.Qc2 c6 9.Rd1 Qe7 10.Rb1 exd4 11.Nxd4 Re8: Sokolov vs Kozul
• 7.Be3 Na6 8.0-0 Ng4 9.Bg5 Qe8 10.h3 h6 11.Bc1 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nf6: Sokolov vs Gelfand
• 5.Nf3/Be2/h3 - Pawn breaks
• Pawn breaks
• 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5: Typical central break for White - Sebenik vs Nisipeanu
• 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.d5: Central breaks & tactics - Kramnik vs Kasparov
• 5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.d5: White's kingside pawn attack: Sokolov vs Van Foreest
• 5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 Na6: White's kingside attack - Iturrizaga vs Rapport
• 5.h3 0-0 6.Be3 Nc6 7.d5: Taking space gone wrong - Praggnanandhaa vs Rapport
• 5.h3 e5 6.d5 a5 7.Be3 Na6: Black's delays castling & the correct pawn break: Narayanan vs Gukesh
• 5.h3 Nbd7 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nc5: Black's delays castling & the correct pawn break - Royal vs Lagarde
• 5.h3/Bg5/f3/Bd3 - Different structures
• Different structures
• 5.h3 0-0 6.Nf3 e5 7.d5 Nh5: Blocked centre & e4-dynamics - Sokolov vs Xie Jun
• 5.Bg5 0-0 6.Qd2 c6 7.Bd3 Nbd7: Changing the structure into a Sicilian type - Sokolov vs Vassallo Barroche
• 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4 c5 8.e3 g5 9.Bg3 Nh5: Central squares - Sokolov vs Radjabov
• 5.f3 0-0 6.Bg5 c6 7.Qd2 a6: Instructive mutual mistakes - Sokolov vs Kozul
• 5.Bd3 0-0 6.Nge2 c5 7.d5 e6: Benoni Type Position - Sokolov vs Radjabov
• Practice Positions
• Black takes on d4 - White to move
• Black takes on d4 - Black to move
• Unusual structure - Black to move
• Unusual structure - White to move
• Pawn sacrifice idea - Black to move
• Pawn sacrifice idea - White to move
• Complex battle - White to move
• Complex battle - Black to move
• Makagonov type position - Black to move
• Makagonov type position - White to move
• Changing into a sicilian structure - White to move
• Changing into a sicilian structure - Black to move
• Exercises
• Database
• Bonus
• Analysis
• Model Games
• Games by Ivan Sokolov

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