Chess Book - Opening Ideas and Analysis for Advanced Players

Description: Chess Book - Opening Ideas and Analysis for Advanced Players - Volume 2 Andrew SoltisChess Digest 1992218 pages + 2 pages of Chess Digest book listings + 4 blank notes pages. From the introduction:This is the second volume of a series of treatises designed to show how opening ideas and middlegame strategies originate, evolve and prosper. Our focus is not on specific moves or Theoretical Novelties; these are constantly in flux in the major openings, and what is true about the merits of 17 Nc4!? today may be false tomorrow after 17 ... Bg6! is discovered to refute it. No, our attention will be directed at the basic, underlying themes of each opening and variation and how they dictate the proper methods--as well as punish the improper methods--of conducting play. This knowledge is not refuted; it does not become obsolete. Knowing the right way to restrain the isolated d-pawn in the Tarrasch Defense, for example, or how to conduct a queenside attack on the White side of a Ruy Lopez is not going to become a useless bit of in formation in the next generation or two of tournament chess. In our first volume, we followed some of the most controversial of modern openings, the ones that changed the most in the past fifty years, e.g. the Sicilian, Benoni and Indian defenses. In this volume, however, we return to the double e-pawn and d-pawn systems, the Classical building blocks upon which 150 years of opening theory has been built. Specifically, we will examine the Roy Lopez and Petroff Defense after 1 e4, e5 and the Queen's Gambit's various accepted and declined variations after 1 d4 d5. This is a book about opening ideas and how they grow. It is about how families of new strategies were discovered, how they matured with age and how they altered the way players began their chess games in the period after World War II. This is the way to learn an opening -how ideas evolved from the beginning, working through the present day.We we will examine modern approaches to the battle for the center, new philosophies about how to conduct a middlegame, and new attitudes about the role of the opening. Our emphasis will not only be on games that are illustrative of these themes, but also on those which influenced their times. You will find the evolution of ideas presented in an easy to learn form. Your job is to choose a specific opening variation to play and then get the most current book to build on the following ideas. You are then ready, no matter your rating, to tackle the strongest of Grandmasters. Be an authority on the opening you play Light cover wear, shelf wear Some small creasing of cover corners. See pictures Please see my other chess listings. Will combine shipping on multiple purchases Media Mail or better to USA buyers $ 5.00 - Will combine shipping on multiple purchases Canadian buyers $ 14 USD shipping - Will combine shipping on multiple purchases.(will ship from Canada) Shipping once every week on Wednesdays in these Covid times - USA Purchases must be paid within one day of auction end. Next shipping date for USA purchases will be January 26 (including any offers that may be accepted) and then on subsequent Wednesdays.

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