--- product_id: 10172854 title: "Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage" brand: "ivan sokolov" price: "KD 13.73" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10172854-sacrifice-and-initiative-in-chess-seize-the-moment-to-get store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage **Brand:** ivan sokolov **Price:** KD 13.73 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage by ivan sokolov - **How much does it cost?** KD 13.73 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10172854-sacrifice-and-initiative-in-chess-seize-the-moment-to-get) ## Best For - ivan sokolov enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ivan sokolov brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516TmlO2vsL.jpg) ![Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51PY6iQQW7L.jpg) ![Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/317YIDa+XjL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ good for more advance players. *by V***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2015* This is a very good book. But it is not one I would recommend to a beginer. Mainly dues to large analysis lines the author gives. This is a nice book for someone who has already gone theough My System, Art of Attack, and Chess Training for Post begginers. If you already comfortable with the topics in any of those three books, this is a nice book to use next, If you are new to positional Chess, I would stary with one of the other three books first. Just this week we had a tournament in my town and walking around seeing others play I quickly notice that there are players who had a better position but gave it up, or failed to take advantage of it. One person who was playing a higher rated opponent did not pick up the initive after the stronger player wasted two moves in the opening, instead he wasted two of his own. Another match a person had a plan, and the opponent decided to counter attack, yet the guy with the plan failed to ignore the counter attack not realizing his attack was superior and decisive. This person had a mate threat, or have his opponent lose a queen to stop the mate, yet he got fixated on the counter attack, and fixated on losing a pawn that he decided to postpone his attack and defend the pawn, i doing so his opponent spotted the mate threat and moved away from it. So this one person settled for a draw rather than a win. My point is that many people seem to get fixated on an idea or two and forget about the big picture. This book is rather refreshing in that it will illustrate the big picture, you will see games where you can ignore a person threat, when your threat is even bigger, it will show you why what looks like an obvious move to non masters, is often ignore by masters eg. a master/grand master not taking a hanging piece and making some positional move instead. The book will show you how you can maintain the iniative when you have it and discuss standard attack plans as well as understanding pawn structures. the book is basically an attacking manual similar, but not the same as Art of Attack, this book is more advance. I guess an analogy would be Art of Attack is to Pre-Calculus as Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess is to Calculus. Very good book, but not for a begginer, or someone not yet comfortable with any of the three books I mentioned earlier. The book can be used in several ways, the games are given to you from stary to the end, and then there will be a diagram with the key position. Before I read the book, I just went to the diagram sort of like the puzzle and see if I could figure out the move before reading the annotations, so my first week with the book I used it as a puzzle book, I later went back read the book and the analysis and played the games out on my pc. The analysis part is detailed and I recommend you use a computer or a chess board when looking at the alternatives lines discussed in the analysis section as well as the actual game. Again Excellent book for more advance players that enjoy playing aggressive games. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A BOOK THAT ALL AMATEURS SHOULD READ *by T***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2014* I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Just so you know a little about me, I am an avid chess player who constantly plays on the internet, my rating is currently 1724, I read a lot of niche chess books (i.e. not "My system", "1953 Zurich Tournament", "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" etc) & I don't use computer programs to analyse my games, I do the hard work myself.I highly recommend reading this chess book for any non-Grandmaster player who has already grasped the classical & modern principles of chess. One of the main issues that I have discovered from playing against amateurs is that the vast majority of them are passive in their playing style. This book has 92 games played at the Grandmaster level that will demonstrate ways to seize the initiative & as the author states a few times in this book, the sacrifice is the natural culmination of the initiative, or words to that effect. The 92 games that are covered are split into two parts & 16 chapters that are themed. These games were played by World Champions, Grandmasters & by the author, himself. Some people may not like that the author has selected so many of his own games, however this is a huge plus because who would know better than the players themselves in regards to what variations & ideas were thought about during their own games? About 20% of these games I had already covered a number of times in other chess books, but that is the problem with classic/immortal games, it is hard to overlook them if you are writing a book in which they are prefect examples to illustrate your point(s). I found that in more or less the first half of this book, the author does not get too heavily involved in analysing variations & then in the second half he really gets into it, probably because the focus is on the sacrifice. The emphasis of all these games is on the middlegame, the author just annotates the first more or less 20 moves (most games) & then analyses the middlegame with explanations & variations. Any endgames are just glossed over.I like the way that the author thinks. He reiterates throughout the book the general & key concepts to look out for such as co-ordination or unco-ordination of your own &/or your opponent's pieces, the attackers to defenders ratio, intuition, calculation, the pawns in front or your opponent's King, the change in valuation of the pieces as the character of the game changes, imposing a higher degree threat amongst others. The repetition of such concepts really drills into your memory what to look out for in your own games.Thank you Mr Sokolov for your contribution to this niche topic in chess. As important as positional considerations are in chess, the vast majority of amateurs need to read this book so that they gain some knowledge & confidence to seize the initiative & actually play for a decisive win. Maybe, I am being a bit harsh on my fellow amateurs, but I find the vast majority of them are minimally into tactics & struggle to come up with a plan, afterall, it is a black & white jungle in the middlegame. This book can only be of assistance!!! ### ⭐⭐ Typo after typo *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2023* It would have been a good book, but it's too much trouble to wade through all the typos. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10172854-sacrifice-and-initiative-in-chess-seize-the-moment-to-get](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/10172854-sacrifice-and-initiative-in-chess-seize-the-moment-to-get) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*