Blockade: New Perspectives

65 pp. An English translation of the 1925 edition, published by B. Kagan in Berlin, of Nimzowitsch's first book. The author clearly instructs the chess student on the proper handling of pawn majorities, both qualitative and quantitative, center and flank; the creation of passed pawns; and the defense against passed pawns by restriction and, as a climax - the Blockade! Twenty one annotated games illustrated these fundamentals of good chess play in the style made famous by the classic 'My System.'