Catalogue
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.
Covers all chess openings, with verbal explanations of the ideas. This is the first book of the modern era to do this.
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:
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Main lines explained move by move
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Guidance against rare but dangerous sidelines
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Special emphasis on lines popular at club level
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Brief description of both sides' aims at the end of each main line
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General introduction to each major opening
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More than 400 diagrams
Content
List of Content
008 Symbols
009 Introduction
011 Section 1: Open Games
012 Italian Game
012 Perfect Centre
013 Bishop Exchanges
014 Giuoco Piano
014 Möller Attack
016 Evans Gambit
019 Two Knights
019 Two Knights Main Line
020 Max Lange Attack
022 King's Gambit
024 Rare 2nd moves
026 Petroff
028 Philidor
030 Four Knights
031 Scotch Game
034 Ruy Lopez
034 Kingside Manoeuvres
036 Ruy Lopez Part 1
036 Berlin
038 Third-Move Alternatives
040 Ruy Lopez Part 2
040 Exchange Lopez
041 Steinitz Deferred
042 Open Lopez
044 Möller
046 Ruy Lopez Part 3
046 Marshall Attack
048 Anti-Marshall
049 Early d4
049 Chigorin
051 Breyer
052 Zaitsev
053 Closed Lopez: Other Systems
054 Section 2: Semi-Open Games
055 Sicilian
055 Dragon Set-up
055 Scheveningen Set-up
056 Najdorf Set-up
056 Maroczy Bind Set-up
056 c-File
057 Dragon
060 Accelerated Dragon
061 Classical (and Richter-Rauzer)
062 Sozin
063 Scheveningen (and Keres Attack)
064 Classical Scheveningen
066 Taimanov
067 Kan
068 Najdorf (and English Attack)
071 Najdorf Bg5
074 Najdorf Bc4
076 Najdorf Be2 (and Other Moves)
077 Sveshnikov
079 Kalashnikov
081 Moscow & Rossolimo
082 Grand Prix Attack
083 Closed Sicilian
084 c3 Sicilian
085 4 Qxd4 and Other Sidelines
087 French
087 Pawn-Chain
087 Bad Bishop
088 Exchange French
088 Advance French
090 Tarrasch
092 Rubinstein
093 Winawer
094 Classical
096 Caro-Kann
096 Open Centre
096 Exchange & Panov-Botvinnik
098 Advance Caro-Kann
099 Main Line: 4...Bf5 (and Deviations)
101 Main Line: 4... Nd7 (and 4...Nf6)
103 Alekhine
105 Scandinavian
107 Nimzowitsch
108 Pirc/Modern
108 Austrian
109 Classical
110 150 Attack
111 Priby Pirc
112 Gurgenidze
113 Fianchetto
114 Anti-Pirc
115 Owen's Defence
116 Section 3: Queen's Gambit
116 Light-Squared Bishop
117 Queen's Gambit Accepted
117 3 e4
119 3 Nf3 with 4 e3
120 Two Knights (4 Nc3)
122 Queen's Gambit Declined
122 Carlsbad Structure
122 Orthodox & Lasker
124 Tartakower
125 Exchange
126 5 Bf4
127 Catalan
128 Tarrasch & Semi-Tarrasch
130 Cambridge Springs
132 Slav
132 Main Line with 6...e6 (and Early Deviations)
134 Main Line with 6...Nbd7
135 Early e3
135 ...a6 Slav
137 Exchange Slav
138 Semi-Slav
138 5 Bg5
140 5 e3 and the Meran
142 Wedge Variation
143 Chigorin and Unusual Lines
145 Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
145 Section 4: Indian Defences
147 Nimzo-Indian
148 The Isolated Queen's Pawn
148 Idea for White No. 1: d4-d5 Advance
148 Idea for White No. 2: Central Attack
149 Idea for White No. 3: Kingside Attack
149 Idea for White No. 4: Queenside Play
149 Idea for Black: Simplification
149 Working on the Queenside Weaknesses
150 Sämisch & 4 f3
151 Rubinstein
153 Leningrad
155 Kasparov Variation
156 Classical (4 Qc2) & Others
158 Queen's Indian
158 4 g3
160 4 a3
161 4 e3 & 4 Bf4
163 Bogo-Indian
165 King's Indian
165 Pawn-Storms
166 Classical: Introduction
168 Classical Main Line
170 Sämisch
172 Four Pawns
174 Fianchetto
175 Averbakh and Unusual Lines
177 Grünfeld
177 Grünfeld Centre
177 Exchange: Introduction & Classical
180 Modern Exchange
182 Russian System
183 Fianchetto
184 Early Bishop Moves (and Minor Lines)
186 Benoni Systems
186 Modern Benoni
189 Benko Gambit
191 Dutch
191 Stonewall
193 Leningrad
194 Classical
195 Odds & Ends
196 Trompowsky
198 Torre, Barry and Colle
199 Veresov
200 ...d6 System
201 Black Knights' Tango & Budapest
203 Section 5: Flank Openings
204 English
204 Symmetrical: Queenside Play
205 Symmetrical: Central Play
207 Symmetrical: Hedgehog
208 Four Knights
209 Botvinnik System
210 Reversed Dragon
211 Nimzo-English
213 Reti
215 Anti-Grunfelds
216 English Defence
217 Bird's Opening
218 Larsen's Opening
219 Dunst Opening
220 Basman's Opening
221 Index of Variations | 
