Chess Opening Essentials: 04 - Softcover

Djuric, Stefan; Komarov, Dimitri; Pantaleoni, Claudio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9056913085 ISBN 13: 9789056913083

Publisher: New in Chess, 2010

Synopsis

This volume helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste, is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire, as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning. The authors do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. By highlighting important moves and key positions in color, Chess Opening Essentials helps you to get out of any opening in good shape and gives you a foundation on which to build your repertoire.

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Review

Full of great ideas, clear explanations and instructive games. --GM Paul Motwani, The Scotsman

When you open this fat paperback for the first time, you will be surprised: colour! Compared with this, books from Everyman, Gambit or Olms look like black-and-white television (..) Not only is the main line explained and the reader made hungry for more, but he learns enough strategic knowledge and insider-tips to get, even if he plays the opening for the first time, into the middlegame safely. --Erik Rausch, Rochade Europa Magazine

It gives an outline of each opening and major variation in turn, explaining the ideas and most popular choices for the benefit of elementary players. The reviewer was impressed by the practical advice given in the notes in this well-produced volume. --British Chess Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: New in Chess
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056913085
• ISBN 13: 9789056913083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320