A Strategic Opening Repertoire - Hardcover

Donaldson, John; Peterson, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1879479761 ISBN 13: 9781879479760

Publisher: Intl Chess Enterprises, 1998

Synopsis

This new edition of A Strategic Opening Repertoire is both revised and expanded. The lines presented here – based on 1. Nf3, 2.c4 and 3.g3 – will serve a player well throughout his career as they are based on solid positional ideas with an emphasis on understanding rather than memorizing.

About this title

About the Author:

John Donaldson is an International Master and is the Chess Director of the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco. He is one of the most widely read and respected chess authors in the world today.

Carsten Hansen is a FIDE Master from Denmark. He has long been recognized as one of the best chess opening theoreticians in the world. He has written extensively on flank openings and his monthly column at ChessCafe.com specializes in examing and reviewing opening books.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

From the Introduction to the Second Edition It seems hard to believe that almost ten years have passed since the publication of the first edition of A Strategic Opening Repertoire. Much has happened in the chess world since then, particularly in the area of openings where humans, aided by computers, have analyzed deeper and deeper. Ten years ago highly specialized opening books were still the exception, but now they are the norm. Such developments make me feel the need for books like the one you are holding in your hands is stronger than ever. I am not alone in thinking this. When it first appeared, A Strategic Opening Repertoire was the only book of its kind on the market. Not long after Angus Dunnington’s Easy Guide to the Reti and Tony Kosten’s The Dynamic English were published and in 2004 Nigel Davies’ The Dynamic Reti reached bookstalls. Clearly there was a need for an opening repertoire book geared to those who wanted to steer play along positional lines. This new edition of A Strategic Opening Repertoire is both revised and expanded. While I have gone through every page of this book, the lion’s share of the work was done by my colleague and fellow flank opening enthusiast Danish FM Carsten Hansen. I am particularly indebted to him for fleshing out the annotations to many of the games, particularly in the second half of the book. We both strongly believe in the value of well-annotated model games as a teaching tool and hope that this edition of A Strategic Opening Repertoire will increase your understanding of the game and deepen your position skills… – John Donaldson, November 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Chess Enterprises
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1879479761
• ISBN 13: 9781879479760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142