Andrew Soltis

Author of Pawn Structure Chess

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About the Author

Chess Grandmaster Andy Soltis has been influential in chess circles for more than three decades. His written works include The Inner Game of Chess: How They Calculate and Win and Grandmaster Secret Endings. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Andy Soltis, Andrw Solts, Soltis Andrew, Andrew Solits, GM Andrew Soltis, Andrew Soltis - International Chess Master

Series

Opening Ideas and Analysis for Advanced Players

Works by Andrew Soltis

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Pawn Structure Chess (1976) 169 copies

The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and Win (1994) 121 copies

The Art of Defense in Chess (1975) 99 copies

Studying Chess Made Easy (2010) 72 copies

Bobby Fischer Rediscovered (Batsford Chess Book) (2003) 69 copies

What It Takes to Become a Chess Master (2012) 53 copies

Soviet Chess 1917-1991 (1999) 52 copies

Catalog of Chess Mistakes (1979) 52 copies

Karl Marx Plays Chess and Other Reports on the World's Oldest Game (1991) — Author — 48 copies

Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion (2009) — Contributor — 47 copies

How to Choose a Chess Move (Batsford Chess Books) (2005) 41 copies

Grandmaster Secrets: Endings (1997) 37 copies

The United States Chess Championship, 1845- (1997) 37 copies

Why Lasker Matters (2006) 36 copies

Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion: A Biography with 220 Games (1994) 35 copies

Mikhail Botvinnik: The Life and Games of a World Chess Champion (1736) 34 copies

Chess to enjoy (1978) 29 copies

Rethinking the Chess Pieces (2005) 29 copies

100 Chess Master Trade Secrets: From Sacrifices to Endgames (2013) 28 copies

The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess (Batsford Chess Books) (2008) 28 copies

The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories (1975) 25 copies

Black Defensive System For The Rest Of Your Chess Career (1973) 25 copies

White Opening System: Combining Stonewall Attack, Colle System, Torre Attack (1992) 25 copies

Pillsbury, the extraordinary (1990) 23 copies

Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess (1647) 23 copies

Magnus Carlsen: 60 Memorable Games (2020) 23 copies

Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games (2019) 22 copies

365 Chess Master Lessons: Take One a Day to Be a Better Chess Player (2017) 21 copies

Transpo Tricks in Chess (Batsford Chess Books) (2007) 20 copies

The Best Chess Games of Boris Spassky. (1972) 19 copies

Grandmaster Secrets: Openings (2002) 18 copies

Opening Ideas and Analysis for Advanced Players, Volume 2 (1992) 17 copies

Petrosian The Powerful (1990) 16 copies

Winning with the Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation (Subtitle: Fischer's Weapon) (1992) 16 copies

Your Kingdom for My Horse: When to Exchange in Chess (2015) 16 copies

Understanding the Open Games (Except Ruy Lopez) (1980) 15 copies

The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked (2000) 15 copies

What It Takes to Become a Grandmaster (2016) 14 copies

Winning with the English Opening (1987) 13 copies

Understanding the Queen's Indian Defence (Understanding the chess openings) (1656) 13 copies

Winning with the Giuoco Piano and the Max Lange Attack (1904) 13 copies

Chess Lists (2nd Edition) (2002) 12 copies

David vs Goliath Chess: How to Beat a Stronger Player (2016) 12 copies

The Stonewall Attack (1656) 12 copies

The Trompowsky Attack (1995) 11 copies

Bird-Larsen attack: A complete opening system with 1 f4 then 2 b3 (1989) 11 copies

Opening Ideas and Analysis for Advanced Players, Volume 1 (1991) 11 copies

How to Swindle in Chess (2020) 10 copies

Confessions of a Chess Grandmaster (1990) 10 copies

Winning with 1 e4 (1988) 10 copies

Fabiano Caruana: 60 Memorable Games (2022) 10 copies

Sam Loyd: His Story and Best Problems (1995) 9 copies

Colle system: Koltanowski variation, 5 c3, your 1st or 2nd white opening (1998) 9 copies

Winning with the King's Gambit (Volume 2 - Declined) (1993) 9 copies

Tal The Magnificent (1990) 9 copies

Beating the Caro-Kann with the Advance Variation (1993) 9 copies

Winning with 1 D4 (1988) 8 copies

Los Voraces, 2019: A Chess Novel (2003) 8 copies

Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh: A Chess Multibiography With 220 Games (2021) 8 copies

The Chessmaster Checklist (2021) 8 copies

Winning with the English Defense (1994) 8 copies

Colle system: Zukertort variation, 5 b3 : a white opening you can use for the rest of your career (1998) 7 copies

Beating the Alekhine Defense with the Exchange Variation (1994) 7 copies

Black to play and win with 1-g6: A complete defensive system (1993) 7 copies

Winning with the King's Gambit (Volume 1 - Accepted) (1992) 7 copies

Beating the Sicilian Defense with the Short-Nunn Attack (1993) 7 copies

The Tchigorin Defense (1858) 7 copies

New Sicilian Gambits (1993) 7 copies

The Baltic Defense to the Queen's Gambit (1750) 7 copies

Beating the French Defense with the Advance Variation (1993) 7 copies

Winning with the leningrad Dutch (1993) 6 copies

The Fighting French (1993) 6 copies

Winning with 1 f4 Bird's Opening (1992) 6 copies

Beating the English Opening (1993) 6 copies

Beating the Sicilian Defense Chameleon variation (1990) 6 copies

Bird's Defense to the Ruy Lopez (1981) — Author — 6 copies

Beating the Ruy Lopez with the Fianchetto Variation (1994) 6 copies

The younger school of Soviet chess (Bell chess books) (1976) 6 copies

How to play the Sicilian defense against all white possibilities (1987) 6 copies

The Book of Chess Lists (1984) 6 copies

Lasker's Defense to the Queen's Gambit (1993) 5 copies

Beating The King's Indian and Benoni Defenses With The 5 Bd3 Variation (1905) 5 copies

The Sicilian Scheveningen For Black (1995) 5 copies

Larsen's Opening 1 P-QN3 (1972) 5 copies

1 P-QN4 (1972) 5 copies

500 Chess Questions Answered: for all new chess players (2021) 4 copies

A complete opening system for white with 1P-K4 (1973) 4 copies

Chess Mistakes: How to Detect and Avoid Them (1980) 4 copies

Openings of the Eighties Volume 3 (1986) 3 copies

THE LONDON SYSTEM: A Complete White Opening System (1993) 3 copies

Bird's Opening (1973) 3 copies

The Defense 1 ... P-QN3 (1977 Edition) (1977) 3 copies

Winning With 1 C4 a Complete Opening System (1990) 3 copies

The Sicilian Flank Game. Revised ed., 1973. (1973) 3 copies

Winning With The Bird Opening 3 copies

Noteboom Variation (1995) 3 copies

The Franco-Benoni Defense: A Black Defensive System (1994) 3 copies

The (Not So) Old Indian (1984) 3 copies

SECRETOS DE LA INVERSIÓN DE JUGADAS EN AJEDREZ (Spanish Edition) (2009) 2 copies

Queen's Gambit Declined: Tchigorin Defense (1972) 2 copies

Best Chess Games of Boris Spassky 2 copies

El Verdadero Valor De Las Piezas En Ajedrez (2008) 2 copies

The Double King's Pawn: A Quantitative Analysis of the Opening: 1982 (1982) 2 copies

Nuove idee e varianti in apertura - Volume II 2 copies

Arte de La Defensa En Ajedrez, El - Con CD (Spanish Edition) (2006) 2 copies

Openings of the Eighties Volume 2 (1989) 2 copies

White opening system with 1 P-QB4 (1974) 1 copy

Petrosian The Powerful by Andy Soltis (1990-08-02) (1612) 1 copy

King's Indian Defense: Yugoslav Variation 6 ...c5 (1997) 1 copy

White opening system, with 1 P-Q4 (1974) 1 copy

New Sicilian Gambit 1 copy

Boris Spassky: fifty-one annotated games of the new world champion 1 copy

Nuove idee e varianti in apertura - Volume I 1 copy

Beating The Pirc/Modern with The Fianchetto Variation (1993) 1 copy

Beating the Pirc/Modern with the Fianchetto Variation by Andrew Soltis (1993-01-01) 1 copy

Les échecs la valorisation des pièces en cours de partie (2006) 1 copy

Winning With the Ruy López . Exchange Variation 1 copy

Finales de ajedrez (Grandmaster Secrets: Endings) (Spanish Edition) (2002) 1 copy

Enski leikurinn fyrir hvítan : sigurleiðir í enskum leik 1 copy

Sigurleiðir á svart 1 copy

Grjótgarðsárásin 1 copy

Strutture pedonali (2000) 1 copy

Kings Indian a Quantitative Analysis Of (1982) 1 copy

Sicilian dragon for black (Black to play & win series : limited editions) (1983) 1 copy

Openings of the Eighties. Volume 1 1 copy

Beating the King's Indian and Benoni: Defenses With the 5Bd3! 1 copy

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The Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament, 10th to 28th August, 1936 (1937) — Foreword, some editions — 94 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Soltis, Andrew Eden
Other names: SOLTIS, Andrew Eden
SOLTIS, Andrew
SOLTIS, Andy
Birthdate: 1947-05-28
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Hazelton, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupations: chess writer
newspaper columnist (New York Post)
chess grandmaster (1980)
Organizations: United States Chess Federation
New York Post (chess columnist)

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Confessions of a Chess Grandmaster by Andy Soltis

Algebraic Notation

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marshallchesslibrary | Dec 15, 2022 |

Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the… by Karsten Mueller

Algebraic Notation

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Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis

I think I forgot all but the last page of the book by the time I closed the back cover. There's just so much material here, I think this one will take a few more readings to really sink in. Just an amazing book.

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