Description of Understanding the Chess Openings
Understanding the Chess Openings, a 240 page paperback chess book by Sam Collins, is published by Gambit Books.
This major work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides.
These commentaries will be welcomed by all club and tournament players. It will help you to handle the middlegame positions arising from each opening better, and will equip you to find the best continuation when your opponents deviate from the standard paths.
Understanding the Chess Openings covers all chess openings, with verbal explanations of the ideas. This is the first book of the modern era to do this.
Sam Collins is a young International Master from Ireland who won the Irish Championship in 2002. He competed in several World and European junior championships and has represented Ireland in four Olympiads, winning a gold medal at Bled in 2002. He is also an experienced chess teacher who has lectured at the Berkeley Chess School in California.
