Effective recipes for club players
No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy a chess opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.
When that happens, you can count on a well-prepared opponent who is more than happy to roll out his pet line.
John Watson and Eric Schiller provide club players with solutions to a huge selection of these rarely-played or tricky chess openings. They concentrate upon ideas and strategy, with enough analysis to satisfy the needs of practical play.
Only when a sharp reply is required, Watson and Schiller will recommend a more complex variation filled with tactics. In the vast majority of cases they present a simple and safe way to approach the position, requiring little memorization and still leading to a promising game.
There is a lot of fun material in this book, and you may be surprised to see how even strong grandmasters have indulged in the craziest variations. Chess isn’t all main lines and 20 moves of theory!
Content
008 Explanation of Symbols
009 Icons
010 Introduction
018 Bad White Openings
044 Bad Black Openings
092 Ugly White Openings
236 Ugly Black Openings
342 Good White Openings
389 Good Black Openings
423 Index of Moves and Variation Names
428 Opening Index
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