How to Beat the Open Games

How to Beat the Open Games
Author: Sverre Johnsen
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781911465232

A guide to a set of chess openings that are popular at all levels of play. Open Games are commonly used in the vast majority of scholastic games, but have sufficient richness of ideas that they are also a key battleground at all levels of chess right up to world-championship matches. The author's previous books have been commerically successful.

Beating 1e4 E5

Beating 1e4 E5
Author: John Emms
Publisher: Gloucester Publishers Plc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781857446173

Grandmaster John Emms presents a repertoire for White after 1 e4 e5, based on the Italian Game and the Bishop's Opening. The lines he recommends are built upon a sound yet aggressive system of development which can be deployed against virtually every Black defence. The emphasis is firmly on understanding and executing key positional and tactical ideas, rather than the arduous process of memorizing theory. Emms covers both the main variations and the tricky sidelines, and highlights crucial move-order subtleties. This book provides everything you need to know about playing the Italian Game and the Bishop's Opening. A Grandmaster's repertoire after 1 e4 e5 Packed with new ideas and analysis Ideal for improvers, club players and tournament players

Survive & Beat Annoying Chess Openings

Survive & Beat Annoying Chess Openings
Author: Eric Schiller
Publisher: Cardoza
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-06-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781580420730

This is the chess doctor's handbook to the very popular traps and pitfalls faced by beginning and intermediate chess players. Opening traps are the single most annoying stratagem, that is, for unprepared players. This book shows you how to handle these traps as both Black and White and to set the same traps yourself. Schiller and Watson provide practical remedies from both the White and Black perspectives to the annoying variations that opponents will often choose instead of the well-known main lines. For key openings, the authors provide two separate remedies to appeal to both the attacking and positional player. Unique charts and graphics make learning these remedies easy and fun! 266 pages

A Spanish Repertoire for Black

A Spanish Repertoire for Black
Author: Mihail Marin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9789197600507

Chess Grandmaster Mihail Marin provides a repertoire for players with the black pieces based on the respected Spanish Opening, or the Ruy Lopez as it is sometimes called. Marin provides all the answers for Black after the opening moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4. This depth of chess expertise has rarely been published for a mass audience before, as grandmasters usually prefer to keep their secrets to themselves. The complexity of the material could have been daunting, but Marin is also a master of explaining profound ideas to a wide audience.

Your Jungle Guide to Unbalancing Your Opponents

Your Jungle Guide to Unbalancing Your Opponents
Author: Derakhshani
Publisher: Your Jungle Guide
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9789464201314

This book in front of you assists all players in their efforts to improve, and along their way, our young chess guns provided fresh insights how to trap and trick your opponent in the opening and early middlegame. With the many computer-assisted learning tools available, the player's capacity to improve is limitless. This book offers the reader an insider's candid view of how to unbalance the game in the modern age of chess.

First Steps

First Steps
Author: John Emms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781781944134

First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed.

Beating Unusual Chess Openings

Beating Unusual Chess Openings
Author: Richard Palliser
Publisher: Gloucester Publishers Plc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-09-05
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781857444292

"Dealing with the English, R'eti, King's Indian Attack and other annoying systems"..cover.

Beating the King's Indian and Grunfeld

Beating the King's Indian and Grunfeld
Author: Timothy Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781857444285

The King's Indian and the Grünfeld are two of Black's most popular answers to 1 d4; unsurprising given that they were long-time favourites of chess legends Garry Kasparov and, before him, Bobby Fischer. Brimming with complexity and dynamism, these two openings often leave those playing White scratching their heads wondering how to squeeze even the slightest of advantages out of the opening and, just as crucially, how to avoid becoming swamped in a morass of complicated theory.It's time for White to strike back! In this book, Timothy Taylor gets to grips with the King's Indian and Grünfeld, providing White with a number of easy-to-learn and effective weapons which are specially designed to cause Black maximum discomfort. Taylor examines the typical tactical and positional ideas for both players, highlighting the tricks and pitfalls one must look out for. A study of this book will allow the reader to battle against the King's Indian and the Grünfeld with renewed confidence.*Written by a renowned openings expert *Weapons against two of Black's most popular defences*Ideal for club and tournament playersInternational Master Timothy Taylor is an experienced tournament player who has enjoyed several notable successes, including winning the US Open. He is also a skilled chess writer, one of his previous books, How to Defeat the Smith-Morra Gambit, becoming a US Chess Federation bestseller. This is his second book for Everyman Chess; his first was Bird's Opening.Outside of chess, he is the author of two published novels, Elaine the Fair and Amanda, while he directed the film Wicked Pursuits.

How to Beat Your Kids at Chess

How to Beat Your Kids at Chess
Author: David MacEnulty
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2013-01-21
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1936490609

How to Beat Your Kids at Chess is a book that truly starts at the beginning, with the most basic idea of all: the straight line. This book offers clear explanations, opportunities to practice each concept before moving on, and a systematic progression of ideas. If you... - have always wanted to learn to play chess, this is the book to get you started. - are a chess parent who wants to understand what your child is leaning, this is the book for you. - are a teacher or other adult with little chess knowledge, suddenly in charge of a chess program, then this is the book that will become your bible. - are an adult looking for something to keep your brain active, this book will open the door to exciting and complete brain stimulation. - have been daunted by the complexity of chess, think you don't have the patience for the game, or suffer some other fear that keeps you from trying, this book will allay all your anxieties.

Play the Open Games as Black

Play the Open Games as Black
Author: John Emms
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

This book fills a gaping chasm in chess literature. For years, those who wish to take on the black side of the Ruy Lopez have had to muddle their way through against the variety of alternative openings at White's disposal, because there have been no good books to assist them. This is a detailed guide, written from Black's viewpoint, to facing such openings as the King's Gambit, Vienna, Scotch, Four Knights, Italian Game, Bishop's opening, and the variety of oddball gambits White can try.