There are countless openings and lines to a position with an
isolated Queen’s pawn. This is a type of position you just can’t
avoid, so you have to know how to play it. Reinhold Ripperger
presents the basic IQP techniques and manoeuvres, demonstrating
strengths and weakness of the isolani in many classical games. The
author says: ”The fact is that in almost all World Championship
matches, positions with isolated pawns have played an important
role. Studying positions with isolated pawns intensively is not
only great fun, but also improves one’s strategical understanding
as well as one’s ability to spot tactics. In short it raises one’s
playing strength!” In a further database with training questions,
you can prove your freshly acquired knowledge sweating against the
clock.
