Starting Out: Open Games (Starting Out - Everyman Chess) - Softcover

Flear, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857446305 ISBN 13: 9781857446302

Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2010

Synopsis

Starting Out: Open Games is a further addition to Everyman's best-selling Starting Out series. Grandmaster Glenn Flear revisits the fundamentals of Open Games, examining the key moves and plans for both sides.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn Flear is a well-known Grandmaster, an experienced trainer, and a skilled writer who has many chess books to his name, including the best-seller Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics.

From the Back Cover

Open Games refer to a myriad of openings arising after the ever-popular 1 e4 e5: the Italian Game, the Scotch, The Two Knights Defence, the King s Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Bishop s Opening, the Four Knights, the Petroff and much more besides. In this book, Glenn Flear goes back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them something that has often been neglected or taken for granted in other works. He places particular emphasis on the lines that players are most likely to face. The Starting Out series has firmly established itself as the leading guide to studying openings for up-and-coming chess players. These books are ideal for enthusiasts who don t necessarily have extensive knowledge of the openings in question and who wish to appreciate the essential principles behind them. *User-friendly design to assist readers*Concentrates on the fundamental principles of the openings*Ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players Glenn Flear is a well-known Grandmaster, an experienced trainer, and a skilled writer who has many chess books to his name, including the bestseller Practical Endgame Play Beyond the Basics."

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857446305
• ISBN 13: 9781857446302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304