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Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 1
Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 1, is written by International Master John Watson and published by Gambit Publications.
For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically, often once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are sitting on the squares where they are sitting.
John Watson seeks to help chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. In his previous books on chess strateg, he explained vital concepts that had previously been the domain only of top-class players. Moreover, he did so in ways that have enabled them to enter the general chess consciousness of club players.
In Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 1, he does likewise for the openings, explaining how flexible thinking and notions such as 'rule-independence' can apply to the opening.
In this major three-volume work, Watson presents a wide-ranging view of the way in which top-class players really handle the opening, rather than an idealized and simplified model.
Volume 1, focuses on king's pawn openings, and is a book that will make chess-players think hard about how they begin their games, while offering both entertainment and challenging material for study in openings such as the Sicilian and Ruy Lopez.
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- Item #: GA0603
- Skill Level: All levels (1000+)
- Publisher: Gambit
- ISBN: 1904600603
- # Pages: 336
- Author: John Watson
- Book Category: Openings
- Cover: Paperback
- Year Published: 2006
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