Starting Out: 1e4 A Reliable Repertoire for the Opening Player,9781857444162

Starting Out: 1e4 A Reliable Repertoire for the Opening Player

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781857444162
ISBN10: 1857444167
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-01
Publisher(s): Everyman Chess
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Summary

Building and maintaining a chess opening repertoire can be a demanding task - for a start there are an enormous number of different lines to choose from. There's a strong temptation amongst beginners and improving players to opt solely for tricky lines in order to snare unsuspecting opponents, but this approach has only shortterm value. As you improve and your opponents become stronger, very often these crafty lines don't stand up to close scrutiny, and suddenly you're back to square one with no suitable opening weapons. In Starting Out: 1 e4! Neil McDonald solves this typical problem by providing the reader with a strong and trustworthy repertoire with the white pieces based on the popular opening move 1 e4.

Author Biography

English Grandmaster Neil McDonald is an experienced and successful player on the international chess circuit. He is a respected chess coach, who has trained many of England's strongest junior players. McDonald is also a talented chess writer and has many outstanding works to his name. He is resident of the UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5(2)
Open Games
1 1 e4 e5
7(41)
The Sicilian
2 Sicilian: Introduction and Classical
48(10)
3 Sicilian Scheveningen
58(11)
4 Sicilian Najdorf
69(12)
5 Sicilian Dragon
81(13)
6 Sicilian Sveshnikov (and Kalashnikov)
94(14)
7 Sicilian Taimanov (and other variations)
108(17)
Black's Other Defences
8 Alekhine's Defence
125(9)
9 Caro-Kann Defence
134(12)
10 Scandinavian (and 1...Nc6)
146(15)
11 Pirc and other Fianchetto Defences
161(12)
12 French Defence
173(21)
Index of Variations 194(5)
Index of Complete Games 199

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