Starting Out:

Defensive Play

Angus Dunnington

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781781941256

How do chess players react in the line of fire? Are they able to remain calm in a storm? Defending against a threatening attack on their own king is one of the most difficult aspects to master in chess. Yet given the frequency of such offensives, it's certainly worthwhile investing a good amount of time on honing the ability to defend properly. In this valuable and entertaining book, Angus Dunnington arms readers with all the necessary skills to be able to cope with vicious assaults on their king. Using illustrative games, Dunnington investigates in depth defensive ideas such as blockading, giving up material, and the timely launch of counterattacks. Read this book and defend with confidence! >Includes all aspects of defensive play >Sharpens tactical and combinative awareness >Ideal for improving players

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The Colle-Zukertort against ... Be7 set-ups
• 2 The Colle-Zukertort against ... Bd6 set-ups
• 3 Other Defences to the Colle-Zukertort
• 4 The Colle Queen’s Indian
• 5 The Barry Attack
• 6 The Main Line Barry
• 7 The 150 Attack
• Index of Complete Games
• Adams.M-Bosboom Lanchava.T, London 2006
• Bigg.A-Easton.A, British League 2000
• Brkljaca.A-Abramovic.B, Belgrade 2007
• Bruzon Bautista.L-Anand.V, Leon (rapid) 2006
• Chatalbashev.B-Lalev.D, Bulgarian Team Championship 2003
• Colle.E-Grünfeld.E, Berlin 1926
• Donnelly.M-Gray.C, correspondence 1992
• Donnelly.M-Karelin.E, correspondence 1998
• Gomez.F-Blees.A, Varadero 2000
• Hebden.M-Daly.C, Dublin 2007
• Hebden.M-Gormally.D, Southend 2006
• Kasparov.G-Radjabov.T, Moscow (rapid) 2002
• Kovacevic.V-Nickoloff.B, Toronto 1990
• Kramnik.V-Kasparov.G, 1st blitz matchgame, Moscow 2001
• Kramnik.V-Van Wely.L, Wijk aan Zee 2007
• Lein.A-Petursson.M, Saint John 1988
• Maróczy.G-Blake.J, Hastings 1923/24
• Palliser.R-Kahar.K, Kenilworth 2001
• Palliser.R-O’Neill.P, York 2001
• Palliser.R-Weisbuch.U, Isle of Man 2007
• Rogers.I-Polgar.Su, Dortmund 1985
• Shaposhnikov.E-Shapovalenko.M, St Petersburg 2004
• Speelman.J-Short.N, Hastings 1983/84
• Voiska.M-Vajda.S, Romanian Team Championship 2005
• Yusupov.A-Savchenko.B, Moscow 2007
• Yusupov.A-Scheeren.P, European Team Ch’ship, Plovdiv 1983
• Yusupov.A-Volokitin.A, Bulgarian Team Championship 2006