Author : David Smerdon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781781942949
Grandmaster David Smerdon gives the Scandinavian a welcome twist by using it as an all-out attacking weapon. The repertoire he presents is one he has successfully employed at grandmaster level over many years, and the backbone is provided by the razor-sharp Portuguese and Icelandic gambits.
Author : Dimitri Komarov
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2016-11-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056917285
Chess Opening Essentials is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavour 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 Dimitri Komarov and Stefan Djuric, and International Master Claudio Pantaleoni do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. They include the main alternative responses and give clear indications for further study. This thorough, understandable, and very readable manual gives you a foundation on which to build your repertoire. Beginning and improving chess players should get this powerful book before they buy any other chess opening book! Chess Opening Essentials * Helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas * Gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste * A tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire * A reference book to which advanced players keep returning.
Author : Stefan Djuric
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056916289
Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow. Chess Opening Essentials has exactly the right balance and is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavor of how every opening works and points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening has ended. Chess Opening essentials helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste and is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning. The authors do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. They include the main alternative responses and give clear indications for further study.
Author : Geert van der Stricht
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056916254
For casual players and club players Every chess player loves to win early in the game with a deadly combination or a cunning trap. On the other hand, nobody wants to be tricked by his opponent before the game has really started. This book covers all the tactical themes and typical traps in the main lines of the English, the Dutch and the Reti, as well as a couple of interesting gambits. They are explained in more than 200 carefully selected and annotated short games. "Tactics in the Chess Opening" teaches how to recognise opportunities to attack early in the game and how to avoid standard pitfalls in the opening. It will make the adventurous player win more games. This is 6th and the final volume in a 6-part series covering the entire opening spectrum. It is a guide for further study and for setting up an opening repertoire.
Author : Geert van der Stricht
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056916238
Part 4 of the successful series introducing opening tactics for casual chess players and club players. It teaches how to recognize opportunities to attack early in the game, and how to avoid standard pitfalls in the opening. This book explains in more than 230 carefully selected and annotated games, all the tactical themes and typical traps of all the main lines in the - Queen’s Gambits - Slav - Tarrasch - Trompowsky - Torre and Colle. After studying these brilliant surprise attacks, or just enjoying them, the adventurous player will win more games.
Author : Friso Nijboer
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 905691622X
TACTICS, TRICKS AND TRAPS! For casual players and club players. Every chess player loves to win early in the game with a deadly combination or a cunning trap. On the other hand, nobody wants to be tricked by his opponent before the game has really started. The chess opening is a minefield. The popular series Tactics in the Chess Opening teaches casual players and club players how to recognize opportunities to attack early in the game. You will also learn how to avoid standard pitfalls in the opening. This book explains, in more than 230 carefully selected and annotated games, all the tactical themes and typical traps of the main lines in: -- the French Defence -- the Caro-Kann -- the Pirc -- the Scandinavian Defence. After studying these brilliant surprise attacks, or just enjoying them, the adventurous chess player will win more games.
Author : Dean Ippolito
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9493257444
A good start is half the battle. Experienced American chess coach Dean Ippolito has trained thousands beginners and adult improvers and knows exactly how you should build your opening knowledge. Each chapter focuses on a concrete tactical theme. Those will allow you to set traps, an play tricks, but will also develop your general understanding of opening play with concepts as development and the importance of the center. In this first book of a series of three, Ippolito gives you the tools you need to start your chess games with confidence. Delve into the exciting world of the Center Fork Trick, the Fried Liver Attack, and many more powerful openings tips and tactics.
Author : Carsten Hansen
Publisher : CarstenChess
Page : pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. The chess opening variations in this volume are all the variations of the Sicilian Defense, such as: 1) Alapin Variation 2 c3 2) The Grand Prix Attack 3) The Closed Sicilians 4) The Rossolimo (2...Nc6 3 Bb5) with 3...g65) The Rossolimo Attack with other 3rd Moves6) Moscow Attack (2...d6 3 Bb5+) 5) 2.Nf3 d6 Specialties 6) 2.Nf3 e6 Specialties 9) O'Kelly (2...a6), Ultra-Fianchetto (2...g6) and Nimzowitch (2...Nf6) 10) Other Specialties
Author : Vincent Moret
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056916343
Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Trying to win in 20 moves, copying what's in fashion among top-GM's or memorizing variations are a waste of time. Most likely you will never play your ‘preparation' or end up by jumping from one opening to the other. Experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for White with a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginning players and other amateurs. In this complete and user-friendly guide, Moret has selected relatively aggressive variations that will enhance your tactical vision. To show the typical plans and demonstrate underlying ideas and key motifs, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. For instructional purposes, he also uses games of young players to highlight the errors they tend to make.
Author : Carsten Hansen
Publisher : CarstenChess
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2019-02-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
WIN FAST! Everybody wants to win fast, preferably straight out of the chess opening. This book is a collection of games played by top players in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of blunders, an accumulation of mistakes or brilliant chess tactics. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. The chess openings covered in this volume are: 1) Slav Defense 2) Queen's Gambit Accepted 3) Queen's Gambit - Non-Classical Lines 4) Meran, Semi-Meran & Triangle Set-ups 5) Queen's Gambit - Classical Lines 6) Queen's Gambit - Specialties 7) 1 d4 d5 - d-pawn Specialties After sorting games with the worst mistakes & blunders away, there remains a collection of games showing a catalog of typical mistakes, misunderstandings, misevaluations and how to exploit these: either through simple execution or brilliant chess tactics.
