Isolani and Hanging Pawn Structures Made Simple – PAPERBACK

International Master Cyrus Lakdawala has written an examples-based textbook on how to handle isolani and hanging pawn structures, for players playing both with and against them. This book is aimed at tournament players, with those rated from 1300 onwards benefiting from studying the enclosed 74 complete games and 14 fragments.

Studying this book will give you a strong grasp of the fundamentals when playing with or against isolanis and hanging pawns at all stages of the game, exploiting or combating holes and light- or dark-square advantages, outposts, central pressure and the initiative, and prosecuting or defending against isolani and hanging pawn attacks. Many of these positions arise naturally from French, Caro-Kann, Queen’s Gambit, Semi-Slav and Nimzo-Indian variations in particular, enabling you to deploy or face these openings with confidence.

Examples are drawn mostly from games of world champions and super-GMs such as Carlsen, Sindarov, Giri, Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Spassky, Petrosian, Korchnoi, Tal, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Keres, Short, Kamsky, Timman, Spielmann, Rubinstein, Yusupov and Polugaevsky. Several are the author’s own games.