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Summary: Great Synopsis of Openings
Review: I picked this book up for a few years ago as a more thorough introduction to Chess openings. 50 books later i still pull this off the shelf on occasion. All games are complete or with Black resigning with Mate soon to follow. To this day i get disappointed if an Opening Chess book doesn't have at least SOME complete games. I have a small minority that have no complete games and to me that's a shame. This book won't teach a lot of opening theory, but it will expose the beginner/novice to numerous openings. It's instructional for all concerning possible piece sacrifices and various traps. The 9 chapters are very well organized. I find it very helpful if variations or move orders are included in reviews before buying. Since there are so many variations i'll list them but won't include move orders. A good chess program should help locate them. (like Chessvision). This is rather lengthy :)1) Ruy Lopez: Schliemann Defence, Bird Defence, Steinitz Defence, Classical Defence, Berlin Defence, Exchange, Steinitz Defence Deferred, Moller Defence, Open and Anti-Marshall 8.a4 2) Other Open Games: Giuoco Piano, Evans Gambit, Two Knights Defence, Scotch Game, Four Knights Game, Philidor Defence, Petroff (Russian) Defence, Latvian Gambit, Bishop's Opening, King's Gambit and Vienna Game 3) Sicilian Defence: Dragon, Sozin Attack, Richter-Rauzer, Najdorf, Najdorf Poisoned Pawn, Najdorf Polugayevsky, Pin (Counterattack), Nimzowitsch-Rossolimo Attack, Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Hungarian) and Closed 4) French Defence: Advance, Rubenstein, Chatard-Alekhine Attack, McCutcheon, Winawer and Tarrasch 5) Caro-Kann Defence: Tartakower-Nimzowitsch (Forgacs), Steinitz, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, Two Knights and 2 unnamed variations. 6) Other Semi-Open Games: Pirc Defence (Austrian Attack), odd Pirc variations, Modern Defence, Alekhine Defence (Exchange, Four Pawns Attack and Scandinavian), Scandinavian Defence and Nimzowitsch Defence. 7) Queen's Gambit: Accepted (Classical-Steinitz and Bogolyubov), Declined (Orthodox Defence-Rubinstein, Cambridge Springs and Grau-Sahovic Defence), Slav Defence (Krause Attack), Semi-Slav (Botvinnik System), Chigorin Defence and Albin-Counter Gambit 8) Indian Defences: Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Catalan Opening, Budapest Defence, King's Indian Defence and Grunfeld Defence. 9) Other Closed Games: Trompowsky Attack, Dutch Defence, English Opening, Reti Opening, Bird Opening and Sokolsky Opening
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