“An excellent quality work by Sam Shankland gives many tips for the readers who want to deal with the topics of passed pawns A lot of new material and an exciting author.”

GM Artur Yusupov, on behalf of the Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award jury

“Sam Shankland not only brings instructive examples but manages to draw the right conclusions from them leading to good guidelines. This is the way strategy books should be written!”

GM Karsten Müller

“Sam Shankland’s ‘Small Steps 2 Success’ is another book that should appeal to a wide audience. The 2018 U.S. Champion’s first book, ‘Small Steps to Giant Improvement’, received critical acclaim and his new work, packed with loads of instructional material, helpful tips and exercises, should as well.”

IM John Donaldson