Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 2, Unlocking the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
Language: English
Published by Gambit, United Kingdom, 2007
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- Title
- Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 2, Unlocking the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings
- Author
- Watson, John
- Publisher
- Gambit, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1904600697
- ISBN 13
- 9781904600695
- Series
- Book 2 of 4: Mastering the Chess Openings
John Watson seeks to help chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. In his previous books on chess strategy, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy and Chess Strategy in Action, he explained vital concepts that characterize modern chess. Moreover, he did so in ways that have enabled these ideas to be understood by club players. Here he does likewise for the openings, proceeding from the fundamental ideas that apply to all openings to more advanced concepts that are essential for substantial improvement.
In this major four-volume work, Watson explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.
This second volume focuses on queen's pawn openings, exploring such openings as the Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian and the entire Queen's Gambit complex, and the characteristic structures to which they lead.
International Master John Watson is one of the world's most respected writers on chess. His groundbreaking four-volume work on the English Opening firmly established his reputation in the 1980s, and he has produced a string of top-quality works since. In 1999, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Watson's first book for Gambit, won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award and the United States Chess Federation Fred Cramer Award for Best Book. His former pupils include the 1997 World Junior Champion, Tal Shaked.
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