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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Play The Catalan
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The Catalan is a sophisticated opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players - on occasion making it look like a forced win for White!
In Play the . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 . . .
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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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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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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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The Philidor Files: Detailed Coverage of a Dynamic Ope...
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The Philidor is a dynamic and underrated answer to Whites most popular opening move, 1 e4. It has recently acquired something of a cult following amongst certain Grandmasters; its supporters include the French number one Etienne Bacrot and the former European Champion Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu.
One of its major selling points is its flexibility Black even has a . . .
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Starting Out: D-Pawn Attacks
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In his book, Starting Out: d-pawn Attacks, author Richard Palliser provides in-depth coverage of three of the most dangerous attacking set-ups available to White: the Colle-Zukertort, the Barry, and the 150 attacks. If you are looking to attack with 1 d4--then look no further.
In recent years these three opening weapons have considerably gained in popularity, . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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 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 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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The Classical King's Indian Uncovered
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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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Play the Ponziani
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The Ponziani Opening enjoys a long history, but for some unknown reason it has been neglected in recent times.
Don't be fooled by its apparently harmless reputation: the Ponziani is full of tricks and catches many unsuspecting opponents by surprise. It's also a perfect weapon for those who don't fancy learning the masses of theory associated with more . . .
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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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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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