Why should you play the King's Gambit? Well, there are many reasons: - The King's Gambit is a dynamic attacking system, and sharpens our instinct for the fine balance between time, structure, and material. - Only one opening is needed after 1.e4 e5, and that is 2.f4 !. Forget trying to memorize the Philidor, the Petroff, the Ruy Lopez, and the Latvian Gambit. - The King's Gambit is great entertainment! It provides game after game of fun positions full of strategic and tactical complexities. - Finally, the King's Gambit is still a surprise weapon - especially the unusual and highly aggressive lines examined in this book! What is needed to play the King's Gambit with success? Above all, Creativity and the Will to Attack! And of course, The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor! Johansson is an imaginative Swedish enthusiast, whose re-search outlines a focused and promising repertoire for those seeking to win as White.

Репринт в картонном переплете.

A reprint in a cardboard binding.

The book presents all open beginnings, and each debut is revealed by analyzing the most significant and characteristic parties for this beginning. Thanks to this, a reader studying a particular debut will better master the basic ideas and typical positions of this beginning. The book offered to your attention will render essential assistance in the work on the study of chess theory and will help to solve many problems of your improvement.

Your attention is invited to a monograph on one of the most popular open debuts - the Russian party. The idea of a counterattack that underlies the Russian game after 1.e4 e5 2.Kf3 Kf6! Is so attractive that this debut is constantly found at all major competitions, including matches for the World Championship. The author of the book, multiple world champion Anatoly Karpov, has repeatedly tested the Russian game in matches against Garry Kasparov, Gata Kamsky and in major tournaments of our time. His co-author - grandmaster Nikolai Kalinichenko - the author of numerous monographs on the theory of chess, has been working on the theme of the Russian party for more than 20 years. The book is based on a unique card file, which contains many batches and analyzes that have not been published in print and electronic databases. Work is broken into three volumes. The first one is devoted to such sharp and interesting schemes as the Cochran gambit 4.K: f7!?, Variant 5. Xcz !, A. Shirov’s formidable weapon and other interesting possibilities. The authors as comfortable as possible offer the reader to plunge into the fascinating world of the Russian party and to comprehend its innermost secrets.

The third volume is devoted to the Steinitz system 1. e4 e5 2. Kf3 Kf6 3. d4, which has not lost its relevance today

In this book, much has been done for the first time. For the first time (at least in Russian) a detailed and qualitative analysis of the Veresov system is given. For the first time, a map of mines and traps & quot; garden and park & quot; Blackmar-Diemer's gambite will appear before the reader in full format, without cuts. The original idea of Litvinenko also did not remain without a thoughtful and painstaking analysis submitted to the reader’s court. From the reader, by and large, only one thing is required: desire. The desire to avoid jaded along and across the schemes of the Queen's Gambit, the desire to try something new. Off, template game! If there is such a desire, the first volume of the monograph & quot; Debut of Queen's Pawns & quot; will become an indispensable assistant on the way to a bright creative experiment. And victories!

This book opens a series of issues from six books of the Chess Library Books, dedicated to the debut of queen pawns. According to the authors, to play this debut, you need to know it and - to love!