Chess Academy eBook+ “Isolated Pawn” runs on a standard PC with the operating system Windows® 10 / 11 and Windows® Vista 32bit/XP/2000/NT4/9x/Me.

Installation of the program, program interface, menu, and help in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

Chess Academy eBook+ “Isolated Pawn” contains a full version of the successful and powerful Chess Academy chess program (ver. 5.5) with the tutorial and training module “Isolated Pawn”.

Tutorial and training examples with text comments in German and English languages are classified by topics/subtopics and each commented variation includes matching positional evaluations and/or text annotations explaining typical plans and maneuvers.

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Brief description of the included tutorial and training module “Isolated Pawn”:

The tutorial and training module “Isolated Pawn” is dedicated to one of the most important strategic problems in a game of chess – the middlegame with isolated pawn.

It explains how to play with an isolated pawn in different positions. The complexity of dealing with such positions depends largely on the assessment of whether the pawn is strong or weak.

The strength of an isolated pawn lies in the space advantage it gives the player, its weakness in its attackability. These points are illustrated by more than 200 carefully selected games of strong players.

This standard work also covers the following topics:

• Attacking the king
• Active development in the center
• Taking advantage of weak squares or outlying pieces
• Space advantage
• File opening
• The development into the endgame
• Blocking an isolated pawn
• Control of the blockade square
• The pawn breakthrough
• Changing the pawn structure
• Provoking hanging pawns
• Capture of pawns hanging back
• Exchange of pieces in the center
• The isolated d-pawn, developed from the French Defense
• Unconventional strategic ideas

The module is a successful combination of classical games, with which the individual chapters are introduced, and modern examples. A careful study of these examples will help the user to acquire solid basic theoretical knowledge that will be of extraordinary value in their own chess practice.

This module will encourage the user to study the middlegame more seriously. Even expert and master players will find the fewest examples too easy. A beginner or intermediate player, on the other hand, will hardly find any example too difficult, but will make small progress with each example.

The magazine “The British Chess Magazine” reviews in its issue no.9 of September 1995: “A surprising first title… Positions with isolated pawns are exceedingly common and can arise from a range of openings…. A total of 201 early and late middlegame positions from master games are discussed, arranged by various topics… the quality of presentation is good and the selection of examples interesting.”

Conclusion: If you want to know how to play with or against an isolated pawn, be sure to use this module.