First Steps:
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First Steps:

The Queen's Gambit

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eBook - ePub

First Steps:

The Queen's Gambit

About this book

The Queen's Gambit is one of the great classical openings. All the world champions and elite players have played this opening – most of them for both sides. In this book the highly experienced coach international master Andrew Martin explains the basic ideas behind all the different variations you can encounter after 1 d4 d5 2 c4. This includes the classical defences (such as the Orthodox, the Lasker and the Slav) as well as the weird and wonderful (such as the Albin Counter-Gambit, the Hennig-Schara Gambit and Marshall's Defence). First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations. First Steps emphasizes: ·the basic principles ·the basic strategies ·the key tricks and traps First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed. If you want to take up a new opening, First Steps is the ideal place to start.

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Information

Publisher
Popular Chess
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781781943823

Table of contents

  1. About the Author
  2. Bibliography
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Piece Deployment for White
  5. 2 Piece Deployment for Black
  6. 3 Exchange Systems
  7. 4 The Queen’s Gambit Accepted
  8. 5 The Queen’s Gambit Declined
  9. 6 The Slav
  10. 7 The Semi-Slav and Meran
  11. 8 The Tarrasch Defence
  12. 9 The Semi-Tarrasch Defence
  13. 10 Less Common Ideas for Black
  14. Index of Complete Games
  15. Al Sayed.M-Li Chao, Gibraltar 2016
  16. Alekhine.A-Capablanca.J, World Championship, Buenos Aires (Game 6) 1927
  17. Aronian.L-Jobava.B, European Team Championship, Reykjavik 2015
  18. Artemiev.V-Motylev.A, Russian Championship, Chita 2015
  19. Berkes.F-Zhang.P, Taiyuan 2006
  20. Bisguier.A-Littlewood.J, Hastings 1961
  21. Bu Xiangzhi-Ivanchuk.V, Danzhou 2016
  22. Chernin.A-Bacrot.E, Corsica 2006
  23. Ding Liren-Anand.V, Sinquefield Cup, Saint Louis 2016
  24. Eljanov.P-Kramnik.V, Baku Olympiad 2016
  25. Fedoseev.V-Gabrielian.A, Taganrog 2015
  26. Friedrich.P-Zaitsev.M, Herne 2016
  27. Gamboa.N-Fressinet.L, Nancy 2012
  28. Gofshtein.L-Sadler.M, Ischia 1996
  29. Granda Zuniga.J-Sargissian.G, Linares 2015
  30. Hamdan.A-Savchenko.S, Algiers 2016
  31. Hebden.M-Longson.A, 4NCL, Wakefield 2016
  32. Hort.V-Inkiov.V, Lugano 1984
  33. Ivanchuk.V-Arencibia.W, Capablanca Memorial, Havana 2005
  34. Jones.G-Bruzon.L, Tromso Olympiad 2014
  35. Kasparov.G-Miles.A, Basel 1986
  36. Kasparov.G-Short.N, Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988
  37. Kuzubov.Y-Moiseenko.A, FIDE World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2005
  38. Laciner.K-Miladinovic.I, Istanbul 2001
  39. Larsen.B-Kasparov.G, Niksic 1983
  40. Li Bo-Brustkern.J, Budapest 2013