How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire: A User-friendly Guide to Choosing and Planning Your Openings

Giddins, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1901983897 / ISBN 13: 9781901983890

Published by Gambit Publications Ltd, 2003

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire: A User-friendly Guide to Choosing and Planning Your Openings
• Publisher: Gambit Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901983897
• ISBN 13: 9781901983890
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

In this book, the first to focus on these issues, Steve Giddins provides common-sense guidance on one of the perennial problems facing chess-players. He tackles questions such as: whether to play main lines, offbeat openings or 'universal' systems; how to avoid being 'move-ordered'; how to use computers; if and when to depart from or change your repertoire. Giddins argues that from novice to grandmaster, a player's basic task when choosing a repertoire is the same: he needs to select openings that suit his playing style and that he can play with confidence. The repertoire should not require more memory work and study than he is capable of, or has time for. The book is rounded off with a look at the use of 'role models' and an investigation of the repertoires of leading players past and present.

About the Author

Steve Giddins is a FIDE Master from England who plays regularly in international events and has frequently contributed to the British Chess Magazine.