Review: My Sokolov-Strategy, Part 1

Do you know this feeling? You often emerge from the opening with a good – or even advantageous – position, only to fail to convert your edge because you do not fully understand the resulting positions and choose the wrong middlegame strategy. Jochen Schwarz, a club player from Bremen, wants to improve in this area. To do so, he has enlisted Ivan Sokolov – through his video series *Understanding Middlegame Strategies* – as his “coach” in order to strengthen his skills. In the first installment of his series *My Sokolov Strategy*, he presents the opening episodes of this video course series.