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Boris Gelfand's Decision Making in Major Piece Endings draws on his experience as a former World Championship Challenger to tackle one of chess's most decisive battlegrounds: endgames with rooks and queens

Importance of pawn structure

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Nxd4 Black lashes out with 4…Bc5

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Englische Leidenschaft - Ein vollständiges Weißrepertoire mit 1.c4 Band 1 metadata-enriched Boris Gelfand's Decision Making in1e5, Dutch and Indian Systems For many great players of different generations, the English Opening was a logical extension to 1. d4. If White waits before moving his d pawn, he can avoid a number of Black's popular defenses such as the Nimzo Indian or Grnfeld, and still lead later into lines that arise after 1. d4. But White can go further and build a purely English repertoire based on 1. c4 and 2. g3. That is the goal of my two DVDs on the English