Pawn Sacrifice - Timothy TaylorPaperback, 192 pages, Everyman Chess 2008 It was the chess legend Philidor who wrote: The pawns are the soul of chess, and yet it is these modest infantrymen who are always the first to die for the cause. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet for some unknown reason they have been rather neglected in chess literature until now. In this pioneering work, Timothy Taylor carries out an in depth study of this significant subject.