Castor & Pollux Publications, 2003. — 58 р. — ISBN 952-99 195-1-4. Are you tired of playing against openings that your opponent knows every variation of down to the umpteenth move? Would you rather play openings with moves that inunediately create problems for your opponent? Openings full of traps, and, surprise, surprise, some of them even safe and sound? Do you think that I....
Thinkers Publishing, 2024. — 475 p. — ISBN: 978-9464787542. The idea of the move 1. Nc3 is to confuse the second player, as White plays a supposedly unambitious move to mislead Black. This is why we found the name "Trojan Horse" very appropriate for the move 1. Nc3, just as the gift from Ulysses to the Trojans appeared to be a tricky and poisoned gift. The appropriate term for...
International Chess Enterprises, 1998. — 152 p. — ISBN: 1-879479-76-1. This is a very interesting book by John Donaldson. He presents 1.Nf3 as the basis for the strategic repertoire discussed in the book. The main point being that white will play a closed sicilian reversed. If the player is unable to have the game steered into those channels, then Donaldson presents the...
New in Chess, 2012. — 266 p. — ISBN: 9056913717. Every competitive chess player needs to decide which openings he wants to play. Selecting a set of moves to employ, with either white or black, against each likely countermove by your opponent is a daunting challenge that takes a lot of time and effort. Grandmaster and former senior world champion Larry Kaufman provides a...
Sofia: Chess Stars, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-9548782951. Alexei Kornev is an international grandmaster and coach. In 2001 he took the silver in the Russian Cup Final. He is also the winner of a number of international tournaments. Highest Elo so far - 2582. For many years, he has been the senior coach of the junior chess school in the city of Vladimir. His students are often...
Bracknell (England): Gambit Publications, 2021. — 176 p. — ISBN 978-1-911465-74-4. James Rizzitano’s goal in this book is to provide you with a one-volume, theoretically sound, dynamic opening repertoire beginning with 1 e4. Studying the choices of the current top players, he identifies these secrets of their success: Play openings where you have a relatively safe king. Take...
Cardoza Publishing, 1999. — 306 p. — ISBN13: 9781580420150. This complete repertoire shows White how to reject the classical principles of opening play; instead of placing pawns in the center, White allows Black to build the "ideal" pawn center. As Black tries to hold the center, White prepares to smash the center apart with Black's slightest mistake. Plentiful diagrams and...
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