Carlsen/Howell: Grind Like A Grandmaster Kids when to push your a-pawn

when to push your a-pawn to the fourth rank… and when to hold it back

structures the work by examining main lines first—demonstrating that Black achieves dynamic equality against White's sharpest attempts—before exploring less critical sidelines

An elite player from the 1960s to the 1990s

• Running time: 4 hours 50 minutes

which Black has to be wary of if he himself tries to open the center too quickly

Carlsen/Howell: Grind Like A Grandmaster Kids when to push your a-pawnHow to Keep Pressing until Your Opponent Cracks It is amazing how much play you can create in a seemingly equal chess position if you persevere. In this book, the greatest chess player of all time, Magnus Carlsen, and his friend, Grandmaster David Howell, explain how to win these kinds of chess games. Carlsen and Howell show how you can keep a game alive, how you can keep posing problems to your opponent, how you can recognize the first small