Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess - Ivan Sokolov

Paperback, 256 pages, New in Chess 2013 Best Books of 2013 - CHESS MagazineEnglish Chess Federation Book of the Year FinalistSacrifice and Initiative in Chess is an entertaining and instructive guide, packed with useful advice and sparkling examplesThe sacrifice is one of themost beautiful and complex elements of chess. Giving up material in order to get an advantage is often the most difficult decision a player has to take during a game. It can also be the most rewarding.Ivan Sokolov, a true grandmaster of attack, presents a set of practical tools that will help you to master the art of the sacrifice. He concentrates on the aim you are trying to achieve, and he teaches you how to develop your intuition and how to arrive at a reasonable risk assessment. A sacrifice, Sokolov argues, is the natural product of the initiative. This explains why the author devotes a substantial part of the book to this most elusive element of our game. With great clarity he teaches when the initiative is at