Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame - Nikolay YakovlevChess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame by Nikolay Yakovlev Paperback, 277 pages Planning is critical to winning in chess. While other writers offer you thinking tools for building an effective plan, in Chess Blueprints: Planning in the Middlegame Nikolay Yakovlev gives you the bricks the positional themes and patterns that you need to know in order to make use of those fancy tools. With 188 positions and 559 diagrams ranging from the classics to