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Mastering the Chess Openings: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Modern Chess Openings, Volume 2,New
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For many chessplayers, opening study is sheer hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player wont know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit.John Watson seeks to help chessplayers achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. In his previous books on chess strategy, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy and Chess Strategy in Action, he explained vital concepts that characterize modern chess. Moreover, he did so in ways that have enabled these ideas to be understood by club players. Here he does likewise for the openings, proceeding from the fundamental ideas that apply to all openings to more advanced concepts that are essential for substantial improvement.In this major fourvolume work, Watson explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.This second volume focuses on queens pawn openings, exploring such openings as the NimzoIndian, Kings Indian and the entire Queens Gambit complex, and the characteristic structures to which they lead.International Master John Watson is one of the worlds most respected writers on chess. His groundbreaking fourvolume work on the English Opening firmly established his reputation in the 1980s, and he has produced a string of topquality works since. In 1999, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Watsons first book for Gambit, won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award and the United States Chess Federation Fred Cramer Award for Best Book. His former pupils include the 1997 World Junior Champion, Tal Shaked.
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