The Old Indian:

Move by Move

Junior Tay

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781942338
• Year: 2015

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. The Old Indian has a well-deserved reputation as a sound defense to 1 d4. Black employs an easy-to-learn system of development, seizes a firm foothold in the center and aims to create counterplay from a solid platform. In this book, Old Indian expert Junior Tay invites you to join him in studying the opening and its many variations. Using illustrative games, Tay highlights the tactical and positional ideas for both sides, provides repertoire options for Black and offers answers all the key questions. This book will tell you everything you need to know about playing the Old Indian Defense. *Essential guidance and training in the Old Indian *Offers repertoire options for Black *Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Table of contents

• About the author
• Series Foreword
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Classical Tension Tussle
• 2 Sämisch-Style Set-Ups and Early d4-d5 Systems
• 3 Various Ideas in the Fianchetto System
• 4 Marshalling an Attack with 4 Bg5 and 5 e3
• 5 Navigating the Old Indian Trail: 20 Questions
• Index of Games
• Solution
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