This book fills an enormous void in chess literature. There are a countless number of players who are very happy to defend the black side of the Queen's Gambit or play the Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Bogo-Indian or Benoni. However, more often than not they have been forced to muddle their way through a whole variety of annoying sidelines White has at his or her disposal, including the dreaded Trompowsky, the tricky Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and the tiresome Colle Variation. Now finally help is at hand! In this unique book John Cox reveals everything Black players need to know about all of White's offbeat tries, presenting Black with no-nonsense answers to every white option. Read this book and you will be fully armed to deal with anything that White can throw at you. In fact, you'll have all the White players running back to the main lines!

John Cox is a FIDE Master and a former junior international and British Junior Champion. This is his second book for Everyman Chess; his first was Starting Out: Alekhine's Defence .

Content:
004 Bibliography

006 Introduction

010 1 The Trompowsky

033 2 The Pseudo-Trompowsky

039 3 The Torre Attack

054 4 The Hebden Torre

059 5 The London System

079 6 The Colle System

101 7 The Veresov

111 8 The Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit

118 9 Anti-Benoni Lines

137 10 Rare Lines

143 Index of Variations