How Ulf Beats Black

Ulf Andersson's Bulletproof Strategic Repertoire for White

Cyrus Lakdawala

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056917739
• Year: 2018

In his prime, in the 1970-s and 80-s, legendary Swedish chess grandmaster Ulf Andersson was a Top 10 player with a distinct, immediately recognizable style. He almost never lost a game and kept scoring wins from quiet positions.

Quiet positons? Acclaimed chess author Cyrus Lakdawala has played Andersson’s lines for decades and explains that those positions only LOOK quiet. Ulf Andersson, who understood the subtleties of strategic chess better than almost anyone else, always detected and exploited hidden opportunities.

As Andersson’s openings tend to glide into the middlegame and often into the endgame, How Ulf Beats Black is much more than just a chess opening manual. Lakdawala’s lucid explanations offer a practical guide to positional technique that will improve your endgame skills as well. On top of that it is also a games collection of a great but often misunderstood chess player.
This repertoire is not based on forcing variations but on understanding the underlying principles and techniques. As a result your opponent will not be able to surprise you because you forgot to check recent novelties. The final chapter ‘What did Ulf play?’ presents exercises to test your understanding.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanation of symbols
• Ulf Andersson’s opening repertoire – introduction
• Chapter 1: Ulf versus the King’s Indian
• Chapter 2: The Pseudo-Grünfeld
• Chapter 3: Queen’s Indian and Hedgehog lines
• Chapter 4: Quadruple fianchetto lines
• Chapter 5: The move order 1.♘f3 d5 2.c4
• Chapter 6: Ulf in the Catalan
• Chapter 7: Ulf versus the Tarrasch Defence
• Chapter 8: Ulf versus the Symmetrical English
• Chapter 9: Ulf versus the Modern, the Pirc and the Accelerated Dragon
• Chapter 10: Ulf versus the Dutch
• Chapter 11: Ulf in the Exchange Slav
• Chapter 12: What did Ulf play?
• Solutions to exercises
• Index of variations
• Index of players
• Bibliography