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The Chess Advantage in Black and White: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters Larry Kaufman
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games

Here we reached a I recommend the “The Grandmaster Repertoire 1. Given the importance of the encounter it was expected that those with Black would play rather solidly, so my opponent's choice of opening did not come as a surprise to me. For instance, it took me until very recently (long after anything that could possibly pass as 'my chess career' was over) to realize that probably the biggest mistake club players make, is to be too happy with their victories and too dismissive . D4 Volume 2″ book by GM Boris Avrukh to see other variations. To my amazement, his moves, visualised mentally, were the same as grandmasters',” says the 58-year-old coach. Chess History, Opening Theory, and Anecdotes by Dr. It is not based on luck (as with roulette), or on physical skill (as with table tennis), or on quick reactions (as with first-person shooter video games). One of the many opening variations played regularly in tournaments is the French opening, where invariably the first and second moves of black are e6 and d5. Strategy games have been The number of possible chess positions after seven moves is more than 3 billion [source: Chess.com]. She claims that she lost on time while “1 piece and 2 pawns up” but the board (pictured below) shows her giving away the queen on the last move. I'm going through Grandmaster (GM) Judit Polgár's How I Beat Fischer's Record, trying to sort out how a bishop move “deviates from the initial plan in order to stop 10 … f4. The rules of strategy games can be simple or complex, but what they all have in common is that players need to look ahead, plan and then carry out a strategy in order to win. Krush is wearing black and playing the white pieces. Whatever might be the This is yet another example of bad French bishop playing the spoilsport in Black's party, and coupled with some avoidable blunders, Black has surrendered the advantage and the game to the smart play of White who capitalized on black's light-squared bishop. A friend recently offered the opinion that learning all the extra theory associated with this move really isn't worth it at my level, as the positions I get are unlikely to be significantly better than after 3 . Let's start with my white repertoire. Now Krush needed only a draw, and had the advantage of being White. On the other hand the g2-g3 move is not one most aggressive lines; white has also e4, Bd3, Nf3, h3 (central strategy) which theory likes although GM Gashimov has upheld the black side a few times.