Learning the Chess Openings Learning the Chess Openings

Learning the Chess Openings

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Publisher Description

A completely New Edition, Marc.  2024, based on analysis with the latest top neural network (Nnue) engines (Stockfish 16 etc).
Structure changed, and most variations brought up to date with an proprietary,computer generated  opening database of more than two
million positions. Compared with many recent (paper) opening books,  the result, this E-book, is the only opening book that -most- chess players will ever need.

Contents:   in the 'royal game' of chess, an understanding of all the phases of the game, namely opening, middle game, and endgame, is important.
While the importance of the opening phase often is overestimated by beginners, at higher levels it can make the difference between a win and a loss.

  In this book  the beginner is given some general guidelines, after which the intermediate player is guided through the labyrinth of the many different opening variations. Finally the more advanced, chess 'club' players are shown how to develop a specialized opening set of opening variations, which is called a chess opening 'repertoire'.  With such a 'repertoire', the number of options during the opening phase is considerably reduced; another advantage is that gradually the understanding and in-depth knowledge of the preferred opening lines -and thereby the overall playing strength- is increased. And by reducing the amount of time required to study openings, one can allocate relatively more time to the study of other elements in chess, such as tactics (!),  positional understanding and the endgame.   Several opening repertoire choices, improved with top computer programs  are given, both for intermediate and advanced players (with 1.e4 resp 1.d4) which offers the advantage of recognizing that you only have to study your own 'pet' lines..  For more advanced players, 1.d4 is added for White as a positional repertoire and the French defense against 1.e4. In addition some promising gambits for White are listed in a separate chapter. Some improvements in modern chess opening theory ('novelties') are given to illustrate this choice. As result the book now is timeless reference guide, the only opening book a chess player will need until about IM level.  A 'must' for every serious student of the game. Author: ICCF correspondence chess master (CCM) J.E.F. Kaan,  has experience of more than twenty years in computer chess and opening-'book' preparation.  Comments on the content were given by IM E.Kislik,
and the book was edited by IM A. Battey and J.Keating.(professional editor).

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2023
6 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
342
Pages
PUBLISHER
Jef Kaan
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
6.2
MB

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