The Middlegame - Book I : Static Features (Algebraic Edition)

by Max Euwe and Haije Kramer

Book Overview

Max Euwe was World Chess Champion in the 1930s and he collaborated with International Master Kramer to write this great treatise on how to play chess middlegames. Book I of the series covers pawn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880673959
• ISBN13: 9781880673959
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Hays Pub
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very thorough book

This book is a classic. It goes through numerous starting middle game positions that arise out of the different openings and explains the strategies of each middle game position before illustrating some representative examples. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes to learn more about the middle game.

Classics that should be in every chess player's library

Max Euwe was a great chess player, and with real insight into what separates masters from the rest of us. These books won't teach you how to play the middlegame. For that you need "My System" and "Pawn Power in Chess". But if you are already a competent tournament player, who wants an enumeration of all the major pawn structures that you might encounter, along with classic examples of grandmaster play, buy these books.

A tremendous instructional book!

The last guy to review this book down below apparently meant to give it 5 stars, but instead gave it zero. Oops!This book, along with Book 2 on Dynamic Features, was a very big reason why I made it up to a USCF Expert rating.Buy these two books. Study them. Watch your rating climb!