Chess Structures: una guía de gran maestro, de Mauricio Flores Ríos (tapa blanda)

This Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide is an English-language chess book by Mauricio Flores Rios that focuses on pawn structures and the strategic plans that grow out of them.

What this book covers

Rather than memorising individual variations, you learn how to read the position and choose sensible moves in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The book examines 28 common pawn structures through carefully selected model games, showing the main plans, recurring strategic ideas and the mistakes that appear most often in practice.

It also highlights strategic patterns worth watching for, along with positional traps to avoid. To help you test your understanding, the material includes 50 positional exercises with detailed solutions.

Inside the book

• analysis of 28 common pawn structures
• model games chosen to show the main plans and ideas
• coverage of typical strategic patterns and mistakes
• 50 positional exercises with detailed solutions
• based on 140 games and game fragments

This is a useful study book for club players, ambitious amateurs, coaches and other players who want to strengthen their positional understanding. It works well both as a structured training resource and as a reference for recurring middlegame and endgame structures.

Edition details

• Author: Mauricio Flores Rios
• Language: English
• Binding: paperback
• Page count: 464
• Publication date: 4 February 2015
• ISBN: 978-1-78483-000-7

Key details

• Product type: chess book
• Title: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
• Author: Mauricio Flores Rios
• Content focus: pawn structures and strategic plans
• Structure count: 28 common pawn structures
• Exercises: 50 positional exercises with detailed solutions
• Game material: 140 games and game fragments
• Binding: paperback