How to Open a Chess Game - Softcover

Larry Evans; Svetozar Gligoric; Vlastimil Hort; Paul Keres; Bent Larsen; Tigran Petrosian; Lajos Portisch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890580030 ISBN 13: 9780890580035

Publisher: RHM Press, US, 1984

Synopsis

This is one of the most interesting, most unusual and most instructive chess books ever written. Seven of the World's Strongest Chess Grandmasters were each asked to write down their thoughts about how a serious chess amateur might best approach the problem of, very simply, "opening" a chess game? What makes this book especially great and useful is that each of these seven grandmasters had vastly different styles. For example, Bent Larsen used wild, unorthodox attacking lines, whereas Petrosian, who was capable of attacking when he wanted to, preferred to sniff out his opponent's chances and wait for the opponent to attack unsoundly and fall upon his own sword. This book therefore gives the practical amateur player seven different styles to choose from. Thus, he needs only to choose which one is most suitable for himself.

About this title

About the Author:

Grandmaster Larry Evans is, among many other things, three times US Chess Champion.

About this edition

• Publisher: RHM Press, US
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0890580030
• ISBN 13: 9780890580035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227
• Editor: Burt Hochberg