Chess Cafe. Middlegame Motifs

1 The Minority Attack ......Page 1 2 f5 in the f4 Sicilian ......Page 7 3 Attacking a Second Weakness ......Page 13 4 Countering the Minority Attack: Capablanca's Maneuver ......Page 21 5 The Double Bishop Sacrifice ......Page 28 6 The Backward d-Pawn in the Sicilian ......Page 33 7 The Bad Stonewall Bishop ......Page 40 8 The Weak Doubled Pawn ......Page 46 9 The Power of Passed Pawns ......Page 53 10 The Greek Bishop Sacrifice ......Page 61 11 White's Pawn Storm in the QGD Exchange ......Page 68 12 The King's Gambit Pawn Duo ......Page 75 13 Hanging Pawns ......Page 82 14 Diagonalisation ......Page 89 15 Sacrifices on f7 ......Page 96 16 The Advanced Isolated d-Pawn ......Page 103 17 Pin Power ......Page 109 18 Sacrifices on g7 ......Page 117 19 An Advanced Blockader d3 ......Page 124 20 Rooks on the Seventh ......Page 130 21 Rooks Lifts ......Page 136 22 The Offside Knight ......Page 143 23 The Sicilian Exchange Sacrifice ......Page 149 24 The Pros and Cons of Space ......Page 156 25 Back Rank Weakness ......Page 162