Understanding the Chess Openings
Understanding the Chess Openings
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Understanding the Chess Openings by Sam Collins
This major new work surveys all chess openings, providing a guide to every critical main line and featuring descriptions of the typical strategies for both sides. These commentaries will be welcomed by all club and tournament players, as they will help them to handle the middlegame positions arising from each opening better, and will equip them to find the best continuation when their opponents deviate from the standard paths.As it covers all openings, Understanding the Chess Openings will also prove invaluable to those who are seeking to create a repertoire. At a glance, readers will get a feel for the character of an opening, and an idea of whether it might suit their style. Potential theoretical problem areas and move-order issues, so critical when creating a repertoire, are also highlighted.
Features include:
* Main lines explained move by move
* Guidance against rare but dangerous sidelines
* Special emphasis on lines popular at club level
* Brief description of both sides' aims at the end of each main line
* General introduction to each major opening
* Complete games are given to illustrate key ideas
* More than 400 diagrams
Collins, Sam: - Irish international master Sam Collins won the championship of his home country in 2002 and 2014. He has represented Ireland in numerous Olympiads, winning an individual gold medal at Bled in 2002. He is also an experienced chess teacher who has lectured at the Berkeley Chess School in California. His previous books for Gambit were Chess Explained: The c3 Sicilian and the highly successful general opening work Understanding the Chess Openings.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781904600282 |
| ISBN 10 | 190460028X |
| Title | Understanding the Chess Openings |
| Author | Sam Collins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gambit Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-05-11 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |