Play 1 b4!: Shock Your Opponents With the Sokolsky
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In the chess openings book Play 1 b4!: Shock Your opponents with the Sokolsky from Everyman Chess, authors Yury Lapshun and Nick Conticello give you the chance to surprise your opponent on the very first move!
Do you enjoy playing creatively from the beginning of the chess game? Look no further than 1 b4!
With this aggressive pawn lunge White takes the game . . .
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Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1 e4
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Anyone who plays 1 e4 as White must be prepared not only for Black’s main defenses, but also an assortment of less popular lines. These, when taken together, represent a significant percentage of the replies you can expect to meet when opening 1 e4. Dealing with these slightly offbeat variations is often a daunting task, especially since your opponents are likely to be . . .
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Move by Move: The Ruy Lopez
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This is a new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep . . .
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Attacking Chess: The King's Indian, Volume 1
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The King's Indian remains a hugely popular opening at all levels of chess--unsurprising given the attacking opportunities it offers. In many of the ultra-sharp main lines, both sides can fight for the initiative. White frequently wins the queenside battle but this often turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory as Black wins the war by checkmating on the kingside! Black is hunting the . . .
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Chess Developments: The Modern Benoni
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Chess Developments is a brand new series providing state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the current trends – concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening theory whilst also expanding and improving their repertoires.
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The Sniper--Play 1...g6, ...Bg7 and ...c5!
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The Sniper is a dynamic and universal opening weapon for Black which can be used against all mainline openings. Black’s system of development with ...g6 and ...Bg7 initially allows White to occupy the centre but, in true hypermodern style, Black strikes back immediately with ...c5. The Sniper can lead to original or barely-known positions in which Black can strive for . . .
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The Four Knights Game: A New Repertoire in an Old Ches...
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The Four Knights Game is one of the oldest chess openings and continues to be a popular choice among beginners and club players.
In recent years leading grandmasters such as Alexey Shirov and Emil Sutovsky have injected the Four Knights with numerous fresh ideas and changed its peaceful reputation.White has quite a few ways to create tension and play for the attack. . . .
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Play 1...b6
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Fed up with getting difficult positions with the black pieces? Tired of always having to keep up with all the latest developments. Take a break from the mountains of opening theory and play 1...b6! With the move, preparing a bishop fianchetto, Black immediately directs the game into relatively uncharted territory, one where White players are not able to sit back and rely on their . . .
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The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit: A Modern Guide to a Fascin...
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Do you like setting your opponent problems from the very first move? Are you happy to roll the dice and take some risks? Then enter the intriguing world of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit!The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is a dangerous attacking opening which has amassed a cult following – a loyal band of supporters like no other in chess. White sacrifices a pawn in return for a strong . . .
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Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1d4
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Tired of constantly defending passive positions with the black pieces? Looking for something new and exciting to unleash at the chessboard? This book provides an answer to these perennial questions. International Master and renowned openings theoretician Richard Palliser presents a complete repertoire for Black against queen's pawn openings based on the dynamic and very much . . .
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Move by Move: The Nimzo-Indian
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This is a new series which provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the
reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning
and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected
questions and answers . . .
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How To Play Against the 1 d4
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Finding a suitable defense to 1 d4 isn’t an easy task, especially if you don’t have endless time available to study all the latest theoretical developments. If you choose fashionable openings, it’s imperative to keep pace with modern theory if you want to succeed with Black.Those who are unwilling to become slaves to opening theory need not fear – this book . . .
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Gambiteer I: A hard-hitting chess opening repertoire f...
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Are you fearless in your approach to chess openings? Do you like to attack your opponents from the very beginning? Are you happy to take calculated risks? Do you loathe trivial positional chess? Do you feel the need to sacrifice pawns early in the game? Are you a Gambiteer? If the answer to these questions is yes! then this is the book for you!In his two-volume Gambiteer series, . . .
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Starting Out: Open Games
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Open Games' refer to a myriad of openings arising after the ever-popular 1 e4 e5: the Italian Game, the Scotch, The Two Knights Defense, the King's Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Bishop's Opening, the Four Knights, the Petroff and much more besides. In this book, Glenn Flear goes back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to explain the . . .
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Chess Explained: The Grunfeld
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Chess Explained: The Grunfeld, is a Gambit publication written by International Master Valentin Bogdanov . The Grunfeld is essentially an opening of grand ideas, which need to be understood well in order to get to grips with the theory and handle the resulting positions.
This book provides a discussion of all major lines, and a special contribution from Viacheslav . . .
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Chess Openings for Kids
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For chess-players of all ages and abilities, it is vital to get off to a good start. This simple guide provides all the tips and ideas needed to play purposefully from move one. That's because these 50 Mighty Openings are the very ones used by chess masters and grandmasters to outwit opponents time and again.This book teaches the names and starting moves of all the main chess . . .
Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening!
Against most Sicilian variations, White’s sharpest and often best weapon is queenside castling, a strategy that frequently leads to spectacular fireworks. Regrettably, these powerful charges have never been properly categorized. Until this book.In Sicilian Attacks, Grandmaster . . .
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Dangerous Weapons: The Caro-Kann
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Do you need to freshen up your chess openings? Stun your opponents with new and exciting ideas!
Dangerous Weapons is a series of opening books which supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire.
In this book, three opening specialists team up and take a contemporary look at the Caro-Kann, one of the most popular . . .
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The Scotch Game
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The Scotch Game is an ideal opening weapon for White. It’s ambitious, totally sound and leads to a wide variety of strategically complex positions. The Scotch was a particular favorite of Garry Kasparov, who invigorated it with a number of major discoveries to make it an opening to be feared throughout the chess world.In this book, Yelena Dembo and Richard Palliser team up to . . .
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Dangerous Weapons: Anti-Sicilians
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Do you need a well-deserved break from your normal chess openings? Are you tired of constantly having to keep up with modern chess theory? Or perhaps you simply wish to try out something new and inspiring, but cannot decide amongst the numerous choices available? Look no further for the answer!
In Dangerous Weapons: Anti-Sicilians, prominent opening specialists . . .
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Gambit Guide to the Bogo-Indian
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The Bogo-Indian is one of the most solid defences at Black's disposal. The unique GAMBIT system makes it easy to use the book to the maximum practical advantage. Quick Summaries introduce the main themes of each system, where appropriate suggesting a coherent repertoire of reliable lines. Whether you're looking for a quick introduction to an opening system for surprise . . .
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Gambiteer II
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Are you fearless in your approach to chess openings? Do you like to attack your opponents from the very beginning? Are you happy to take calculated risks? Do you loathe trivial positional chess? Do you feel the need to sacrifice pawns early in the game? Are you a Gambiteer? If the answer to these questions is yes! then this is the book for you!In his two-volume Gambiteer series, . . .
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Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win
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As noted British chess author T. D. Harding explains in the preface to Counter Gambits: Black to Play and Win, the aim of this book is to show you how to win games with Black.
The method? Calculated aggression, right from move one! To offset the distinct advantage White is thought to have because it moves first, Black can engage in dynamic counterplay to avoid . . .
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Win with the London System
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The London System is a perennial favourite of club players, as it is a very sound and solid system with a real practical sting. The authors of this new book seek to maximize this sting in two principal ways. Firstly, by explaining in detail the typical plans for White, they help readers to make the most of their chances, whether they are based on a kingside attack, queenside . . .
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The Scililan Dragon Revised
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The Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting and powerful openings in all chess—the Sicilian Dragon! Used by amateurs and champions a like, the dragon features brilliant combinations, no-holds barred assaults, wild sacrifices, and uncompromising positions. This new edition features bigger diagrams, the latest moves and developments and 30 new game examples. Eric Schiller, . . .
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Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni & Benko
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Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko
Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Perhaps it's time for a change, but you cannot decide between the numerous options available? Here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas!
In this book, four renowned opening experts . . .
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Modern Chess Openings 15'th Edition (MCO-15)
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Modern Chess Openings is the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. It is so trusted that it is known as the chess players bible.
First published over a half-century ago, this Modern Chess Openings is a completely revised and updated to reflect all of the latest changed in the game, including tournament matches and important works on . . .
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Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch, Dazzle Your Opponents
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In this book, three renowned opening experts, Richard Palliser Simon Williams and James Vigus get together to take a revolutionary look at the Dutch Defense, one of Black's most ambitious answers to 1 d4. In doing so they take the road less traveled and concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations - selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colors. . . .
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Win With The Stonewall Dutch
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The Stonewall Dutch is a traditional favorite amongst club players, as it offers Black ready-made attacking plans on the kingside. As Grandmaster Bent Larsen has noted, the Dutch also has the tendency to 'bring out the coward' in opponents, giving it an added practical sting.
However, up until the late 1980s, the Stonewall wasn't fully trusted at . . .
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Starting Out: The Dutch Defence
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The Dutch Defence is an ambitious and underrated counter to the queen's pawn opening. With his very first move Black creates an asymmetrical pawn structure, thus unbalancing the position from a very early stage and allowing both White and Black players to fight for the initiative. Black also has many options within the Dutch Defence, from the ultra-solid Stonewall formation . . .
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Fundamental Chess Openings
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The first moves of a chess game define the nature of the whole struggle, as both players stake their claim to the critical squares and start to develop their plans. It is essential to play purposefully and to avoid falling into traps or reaching a position that you don't understand.
This is not a book that provides masses of variations to memorize. Paul van . . .
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Starting Out: The Colle
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The Colle is a solid, reliable system of development based on the popular opening move 1 d4. One of its major advantages is that although the system is very easy to learn and play, it leads to exciting middlegame positions where White often launches a violent attack against Black's king. The Colle is a particular favorite amongst club players, but is also seen at grandmaster . . .
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Starting Out: The Trompowsky Attack
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The Trompowsky Attack is well known as an ambitious and aggressive opening. Initially an offbeat line favored by club players, in recent history it has undergone somewhat of a transformation.
Thanks to the efforts and innovations of Grandmasters such as Mickey Adams and Julian Hodgson, it has been
fine-tuned into a powerful attacking weapon, and today it is . . .
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The Catalan
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The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favorite of many of the world's leading players. Its rich tactical and positional subtleties provide an excellent platform for players wishing to improve their overall understanding of the game. Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik provide a comprehensive coverage of this opening, outlining the most common plans and . . .
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The Budapest Gambit
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The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class Grandmasters.
In this book Timothy Taylor offers an . . .
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Nimzo-Larsen Attack
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In this, the first book on the Nimzo-Larsen Attack for more than ten years, Byron Jacobs and Jonathan Tait explain how you can use this dynamic opening to attack your opponent from move one. They use their own games and those of other strong players to show how this opening can be a dangerous weapon in the right hands. The Nimzo-Larsen Attack has been unfairly neglected in recent . . .
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Dismantling the Sicilian: A Complete Repertoire for Wh...
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The Sicilian Defense is the most widely played chess opening, both at club level and among top grandmasters. Since Black gets dynamic play in almost all variations, black players of all levels will probably continue to play the Sicilian for a long time to come.
It has been difficult for White to obtain any advantage in Sicilian sidelines, and this book therefore . . .
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Easy Guide to the Najdorf
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The Najdorf has always been one of the sharpest lines of the Sicilian Defense. Fearless, attacking play is usually rewarded, while even the smallest slip by either side can be immediately fatal. In this ground-breaking book Tony Kosten explains not only the theory, but also the important concepts behind this popular opening. Written by an experienced Najdorf expert, this guide . . .
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Play the Alekhine
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The Alekhine is arguably the most forcing and aggressive reply to 1 e4. Black immediately forces the pace and drags the game onto his own favored territory. This strategy is not without risk, but those who specialize in the Alekhine find that the opening has a real practical sting and quick-strike potential.
This book describes the main positional and tactical . . .
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A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire, New Enlarged Editio...
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Bored with the same old openings? Worried about having to learn too much theory? Then this book is just what you've been waiting for.
Aaron Summerscale presents a set of exceptionally dangerous opening weapons for White. Each recommended line is based on a solid positional foundation, yet also promises long-term (and short-term!) attacking chances. The . . .
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Play the Evans Gambit
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In 1995 Garry Kasparov unleashed a daring new weapon, the Evans Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 b4). Although this gambit has always been popular with club and tournament players, it was hardly ever seen in modern top-level chess - until Kasparov used it to beat Anand and Piket in crushing style. Neither of these grandmasters managed to survive even 30 moves! Soon afterwards, . . .
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Understanding the Marshall Attack
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The Marshall Attack is a chess opening like no other. Rather than subjecting himself to the 'Spanish torture' so typical in the Ruy Lopez, Black simply gives away a center pawn. But in return, he gets long-term attacking chances and activity that can persist well into the endgame.
It is almost a century since Frank Marshall invented his sensational . . .
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Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern
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The very closely linked Pirc and Modern Defenses are dynamic systems that are favored by ambitious, counter-attacking players. Black plays very much in a hypermodern fashion, allowing White to build an unopposed pawn centre with the idea of plotting its eventual downfall. In this new book, Grandmaster Joe Gallagher goes back to basics, studying the fundamental principles of the . . .
Chess Opening Essentials, 1.c4 / 1.Nf3 and Other First Moves, is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. The book gives a flavor of how every opening works and explains the similarities with other openings as well as the differences. In addition, it also points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening has ended.
Grandmasters . . .
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The Petroff
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The Petroff has long been regarded as a very solid defense. Black avoids the perils of the Scotch, the Italian Game and, above all, the dreaded Ruy Lopez, and instead opts to neutralize White's initiative with active piece play. In the Petroff, it is quite common for Black to launch an early counterattack, often gambiting a pawn to do so. For many years the Petroff enjoyed a . . .
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Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 4
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In this highly-acclaimed series, International Master John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings.
He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a . . .
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Petroff's Defense
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This is a completely revised and rewritten edition of the 1983 book by the same authors. Since the earlier edition the Petroff has been enriched by the introduction of many new tactical variations, often involving castling on opposite sides, which make it an ideal weapon for the counter-attacking player.
All the important variations are covered in depth with many . . .
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Chess Explained: The Modern Benoni
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The Modern Benoni is from a series from Gambit Publications called Chess Explained, which is a series of books about chess openings.
They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegame to . . .
Chess Opening Essentials, Volume 2, is an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings focusing on the variations of 1.d4 d5, the 1.d4 various and the Queens Gambits. It provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. It also explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
Chess Opening . . .
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Chess Developments: The Sicilian Dragon
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Chess Developments focuses on the current trends – concentrating on critical lines, theoretical novelties and powerful new ideas. It offers players of all levels the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current opening theory while also expanding and improving their repertoires.The Sicilian Dragon is undeniably one of the most popular and eagerly discussed chess openings. The . . .
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Starting Out: The Scotch Game
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The Scotch Game is one of the oldest openings in chess and has a great history, but more recently it was catapulted back into the limelight due to the enterprise of World number one Garry Kasparov, who completely rejuvenated the opening with an abundance of original ideas for White.
He utilised the opening in World Championship matches and other elite events, with . . .
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The Two Knights Defence (Everyman Chess)
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The Two Knights Defence is one of the trickiest tactical openings around. If White initiates complications with either 4 Ng5 or 4 d4, play becomes extremely sharp and gambits and counter gambits abound. Anyone who enters the murky waters of the Two Knights Defence must be well prepared for the mind-boggling complications that ensue. In this book, openings theoretician Jan Pinski . . .