Zlotnik's Middlegame Manual: Typical Structures and Strategic Manoeuvres

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Title page Explanation of symbols Foreword by Fabiano Caruana Preface 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Plan A: kingside attack 1.3. Plan B: opening the game by advancing the isolated pawn 1.4. Plan C: advancing the isolated pawn in order to fix an enemy pawn on an adjacent file 1.5. Plan D: developing activity on the queenside 1.6. Plan A for the defending side: simplification of the position 1.7. Plan B for the defending side: transformation from an IQP structure to a structure with hanging 1.8. Three more games 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Plan A: the minority attack 2.3. Plan B: attack in the centre with e3-e4 2.4. Plan C: kingside attack with both sides castled on the kingside 2.5. Plan D: kingside attack with opposite-side castling 2.6. Plan E: play in positions with both sides castled on the queenside 2.7. Two more games 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Advantages for the side to move 3.2.2. Establishment of an outpost 3.2.3. Active deployment of the pieces 3.3. Breaking the symmetry as a method of defence 3.4. A clash of pawns 3.5. Symmetrical pawn structures from various openings 4.1. Introduction 4.2. The manoeuvre Nf3-h4 4.3. Pinning the Nf6 with Bc1-g5 4.4. Playing an early g2-g4 4.5. Exchanging pawns with exf5 gxf5, followed by f2-f4/f3 4.6. The exchange ...Bg7xNc3 5.1. Introduction 5.2. EFB in the King’s Indian Defence 5.3. EFB in the Dragon Variation 5.4. EFB in the Accelerated Dragon 5.5. Positional methods of play with white 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Boleslavsky’s idea 6.3. The power of Nd5 6.4. Bishops of opposite colours 7.1. The IQP 7.2. The Carlsbad structure 7.3. Symmetrical pawn structures 7.4. Restricted mobility in the King’s Indian Defence 7.5. Should we EFB? 7.6. The d5-square in the Sicilian Index of players