Chess players are offered an ambitious repertoire for White with 1.d4 in two volumes, with this book covering all lines except 1...d5.The repertoire is based on classical lines and inspired by Botvinnik's approach. Schandorff presents the ideas and information in an accessible and entertaining style.The repertoire is completed by Playing 1.d4 - The Queen's Gambit.
Play Indian Defences with 1.d4 Nf6. Join the masters. Choose dynamic counter attacks. You can play grandmaster openings and win. This version has 136 games, updated commentary and an index of player names to the game numbers. This book covers King's Indian and Gruenfeld Defences. Explore the Budapest Gambit, Benko Gambit or Benoni Defence. Study the solid Catalan, Nimzo-Indian or Queen's Indian Defense. Or avoid 2.c4. Choose the Trompowsky, Colle or London System. Enjoy hyper-modern openings. Fight for the center. Improve your control of the chess board. The author shares his adventures and stories from 45 years of play vs masters, experts and club players. This book covers all the openings that begin 1.d4 Nf6 except the lines where Black plays 2...d5. The Huebsch Gambit 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 Nxe4 is covered in Blackmar-Diemer Games 2 (Declined). You can find checkmate themes in all these openings. To help you, related games are grouped together. You will find games full of interesting ideas from years of the author's own writing. They provide creative ideas and ways to improve. Consider new strategy and tactics and your interest will soar! When he tried new variations 30 years ago, it turned his career around and led to higher ratings. You are going to win games that you want to show your friends. Stay excited. Have fun playing chess!
This is an update of Schandorff's 2009 book, Playing the Queen's Gambit. The power of the Queens Gambit is beyond question, even though it allows some serious defences -- the Slav and Semi-Slav are favoured by the elite, Kasparov was playing the Queen's Gambit Accepted until he retired, and the Queen's Gambit Declined has been trusted for a century. The principled way for White to build a repertoire after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 is to play the critical main lines. Take as much space as possible -- no compromises. The Tarrasch, Chigorin, Albin and all minor lines are also met with the same vigour -- this is a complete White repertoire after 1.d4 d5 2.c4.
Brought together for the first time in one volume, International Master Angus Dunnington presents you with an all-new and attacking repertoire based on the move 1d4 while Grandmaster John Emms offers a new arsenal of opening weapons with which to attack your unsuspecting opponents.
Chess Explained is a new 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 middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have. The Queen's Indian is an important and popular opening at all levels of play. Black's flexible stance allows him to choose between a range of solid and dynamic structures. In turn, White can play flexibly, opposing Black's fianchetto, or can try to force the pace in the centre and start a hand-to-hand fight. It is an opening rich in nuances, and many of the modern main lines involve moves that look extravagant, but are backed up by a deep underlying logic.
A detailed repertoire for the Queen's Pawn player, this book provides an aggressive system against the Indian defences. It includes Burgess describing dangerous lines against the King's Indian, and Pedersen showing how to attack the Dutch defence, drawing from his experience in the black side.
Every chess player needs to decide which openings he or she is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of chess opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs.Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. If you are trying to win in 20 moves, copy what's in fashion among top-GM's or memorize variations, you are wasting your time. Most likely you will never get to play your ‘preparation' and end up aimlessly switching from one opening to the other. After the success of his volume for White, experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret now provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for Black. It consists of a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginners and post-beginners.To show the typical plans and the underlying ideas in the various lines of his repertoire, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. He also uses games of young, improving players to highlight the errors they tend to make.
King's Indian Warfare is a practical guide to the most dynamic and ambitious defense against 1.d4. Learn to play the King's Indian like a world-class attacker from a life-long expert. Inside Smirin annotates his best games in the King's Indian, explaining his successes, including his mini-match of four games over a decade against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, which Smirin won 21/2-11/2. From sacrificial feasts to positional masterclasses, this book has it all.
