Starting Out: 1d4:

A Reliable Repertoire For The Opening Player

John Cox

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781781940464

Building and maintaining an opening repertoire can be a demanding task -- for a start there are an enormous number of different lines to choose from. There's a strong temptation amongst beginners and improving players to opt solely for tricky lines in order to snare unsuspecting opponents, but this approach has only short-term value. As players improve and their opponents become stronger, very often these crafty lines don't stand up to close scrutiny, and suddenly they back to square one with no suitable opening weapons. In Starting Out with 1 e4! and Starting Out with 1 d4! Neil McDonald and John Cox solve this perennial problem by providing the reader with a strong and trustworthy repertoire with the white pieces based on the popular opening moves 1 e4 and 1 d4. The recommended lines given here have stood the test of time and are regularly employed by Grandmasters. Reading these books will give players the confidence to play these variations against all strengths of player and provides them with reliable opening armoury for years to come. These books are written in Everyman Chess's distinctive Starting Out style, with plenty of notes, tips, and warnings throughout to help the aspiring player. >Grandmaster-style opening repertoires >Written by opening experts >Ideal for improving players English Grandmaster Neil McDonald is an experienced and successful player on the international chess circuit. He is a respected chess coach, who has trained many of England's strongest junior players. McDonald is also a talented chess writer and has many outstanding works to his name. Earlier Everyman Chess books include Concise Chess Openings and Starting Out: The Dutch Defence. John Cox is a FIDE Master and a former junior international and British Junior Champion. Previous works for Everyman Chess include Starting Out: Alekhine's Defence and Dealing with d4 Deviations. Other Books in Series Starting Out with 1 d4!

Table of contents

• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 The King’s Indian
• 2 The Grünfeld
• 3 The Nimzo-Indian
• 4 The Benoni and Benko
• 5 The Queen’s Gambit Declined
• 6 The Queen’s Gambit Accepted
• 7 The Slav
• 8 The Semi-Slav
• 9 The Albin and the Chigorin
• 10 The Dutch
• 11 Rare but Tricky Tries
• Index of Complete Games
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