New In Chess, 2009. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-90-5691-270-3.
This volume helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste, is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire, as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning.
The authors do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. By highlighting important moves and key positions in color, Chess Opening Essentials helps you to get out of any opening in good shape and gives you a foundation on which to build your repertoire.
Minor Defences 1.d4 Kf6 2.c42... Kc6 and 2... b6
Budapest Gambit 2... e5
Old Indian (with... Ce7)
Minor Defences after 1.d4 Kf6 2.c4 c5Benko Gambit
Benko Gambit Declined - 4. Various
Benko Gambit Accepted
Modern Benoni DefenceFianchetto Variation
Variations with Kf3
Variations with f2-f4
Minor Variations after 6.e4 g6
Bronstein Variation 7... a6!?
Main Lane
Catalan OpeningOpen Catalan
Semi-open Catalan
Closed Catalan
Blumenfeld Gambit
Bogo-Indian Defence
Queen's Indian DefencePetrosian Variation 4.a3
4.g3 Variation
Nimzo-Indian DefenceKasparov Variation 4.Kf3
Sämisch Variation
Variation 4.f3
Capablanca Variation 4.Фc2
Rubinstein Variation 4.e3
Rubinstein Variation with 4... 0-0
Classical Main Line
Grünfeld Indian DefenceFianchetto Variation with g3
Minor Lines after 3.Kc3 d5
Exchange Variation
Exchange Variation with 7.Kf3
Exchange Variation with 7.Cc4
Main line of the 7.Cc4 Variation
Russian Variation
King's Indian DefenceFianchetto Variation
Minor Variations
Averbakh Variation
Sämisch Variation
Classical Variation
Main Line
Mar del Plata Variation