One solution is to study the main lines of all these openings and hope to remember what to do if they appear on the board. Another, more enterprising approach is to turn the tables and make White fight on your territory.
Adopting the latter course, CC-SIM Jonathan Tait shares their investigations into a myriad of disregarded, “disreputable” responses, which can set White thinking as early as move three. These lines are greatly under-estimated by contemporary theory and include weird and wonderful variations such as the Calabrese Counter-Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Bc4 f5), the Wagenbach Defence to the King’s Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 h5), the Romanishin Three Knights (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Nc3 Bc5), the Two Knights Ulvestad Variation (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 Ng5 d5 5 exd5 b5) and ultra-sharp lines of the Jaenisch Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 f5).
The theory of the variations in this book is generally poorly understood. This has made them successful at all forms of play, including against online computer-assisted assault.
Jonathan Tait is a Senior International Correspondence Chess Master (2002) and editor for Everyman Chess. They have been investigating and writing about opening theory for over 30 years.
SPIS TREŚCI:
003 About the Author
006 Introduction
009 1. Centre Game (and other Second Moves)
026 2. Calabrese Counter-Gambit
049 3. Vienna Game
072 4. Bishop’s Gambit (and other King’s Gambits)
087 5. Wagenbach Defence
135 6. Three Knights Game (and other Third Moves)
164 7. Scotch Game
194 8. Two Knights Defence
242 9. Ulvestad Variation
269 10. Jaenisch Gambit
309 11. Jaenisch Gambit with 4 Nc3
353 Index of Variations
