Book Description
International Master Timothy Taylor unearths the secrets of Bird''s Opening and its many deviations. Using illustrative games, he examines tactical and positional ideas for both colors and recommends the best paths.
Author : Timothy Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781857444025
International Master Timothy Taylor unearths the secrets of Bird''s Opening and its many deviations. Using illustrative games, he examines tactical and positional ideas for both colors and recommends the best paths.
Author : Cyrus Lakdawala
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2015-04
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781781942482
IM Cyrus Lakdawala examines Bird's Opening. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1 f4.
Author : Cyrus Lakdawala
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1781942501
This series 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 are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. Bird's Opening, 1 f4, is an ideal choice for freethinking chess players who prefer to rely on their general chess knowledge and intuition rather than having to memorize and keep up to date with mainline opening theory. Bird's Opening is essentially the Dutch Defence with an extra move, and White can choose between a number of different set-ups, including the reversed Leningrad, Classical and Stonewall variations, depending on mood and opponents' responses. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations of Bird's Opening, including the sharp From's Gambit. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1 f4. Essential guidance and training with 1 f4Provides a repertoire options for WhiteUtilizes an ideal approach to chess study
Author : Cyrus Lakdawala
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1781941149
This series 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 are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. The Nimzo-Larsen Attack is an ideal opening choice for players keen to avoid mainline theory but still wanting to set their opponents problems from the outset. In the Nimzo-Larsen, White begins 1 b3 and then develops in hypermodern fashion - planning to undermine any central structures Black dares to erect. A key attraction of the Nimzo-Larsen is that White can steer the game into either sharp play or elaborate strategic battles. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala invites you to join him in examining the many different variations of the Nimzo-Larsen. Lakdawala studies the typical plans and tactics for both sides, offers repertoire options for White, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about playing the Nimzo-Larsen Attack. Essential guidance and training in the Nimzo-Larsen AttackPresents a repertoire for White with 1 b3Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study
Author : Vladimir Vukovic
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781857444001
One of the finest chess books ever written Vukovic expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add new power and brilliance to any player's game.
Author : John Watson
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781904600602
Presents information on the ideas and strategies for chess openings.
Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Chess
ISBN :
Author : Lev Alburt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781889323121
Shows you how to start your chess games as dynamically and accurately as the greatest grandmasters in the world.
Author : Victor Mikhalevski
Publisher : Grandmaster Repertoire
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781907982460
Beating Minor Openings offers a world-class repertoire for Black against every sensible first move apart from 1.d4 and 1.e4. GM Victor Mikhalevski advocates an ambitious approach for Black, with the aim of occupying the centre and fighting for an advantage, rather than mere equality, wherever possible.The most critical moves covered are 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. Against the latter, Mikhalevski supplies a range of replies to allow for transpositions to most queen's pawn openings. In a review of Mikhalevski's previous book for Quality Chess, IM John Cox commented: "Given the goal the book has set itself, I don't believe the job could have been done better."
Author : Paul van der Sterren
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781906454135
* The perfect survival guide to the chess openings * All openings covered * Detailed verbal explanations of plans for both sides * Up-to-date and featuring many tips and recommendations * Insights into the 'character' of each opening * Written by one of the world's foremost opening experts 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 der Sterren instead offers a wealth of ideas and explanation, together with the basic variations of each and every opening. This knowledge will equip players to succeed in the opening up to good club level, and provide a superb grounding in opening play on which to build a more sophisticated repertoire. The strategies he explains will, unlike ever-changing chess opening theory, remain valid as long as chess is played, and so the time spent studying this book will be rewarded many times over. Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren has won the Dutch Championship on two occasions, and in 1993 reached the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship. He is an internationally renowned chess writer and editor: he was one of the founding editors of New in Chess, for whose Yearbooks he has contributed more than 150 opening surveys.