How to lose small and win big in Chess.

A pawn is the smallest unit of material in chess, but a well-executed pawn sacrifice can yield huge rewards. Still, many players shy away from such possibilities when they are uncertain of the consequences.

Powerhouse Pawn Sacrifices contains everything you need to master this crucial area of chess. In addition to covering dynamic and long-term sacrifices, Grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov also discusses pawn sacrifices arising in specific opening variations, connecting the different phases of the game, while sharing valuable insights that will be transferable to other scenarios.

Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He is a four-time Bulgarian champion (2004, 2005, 2012, 2018). Cheparinov competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015 and 2017. He switched his affiliation from Bulgaria to FIDE in 2017, then to Georgia in 2018, and back to Bulgaria in 2020.

He learned to play chess at age five and progressed quickly, winning the junior championship of Bulgaria in 2000. Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov.

Cheparinov has been a part of the Killer Chess Training team since November 2020. What I learned with Topalov was his first course, and he continued with Pawn Sacrifice in the Middlegame.