Sofia: Chess Stars LTD. 2017. -- 402 p. -- ISBN: 9786197188127 This book presents a full repertoire against open Sicilians with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6. It advocates the modern set-up with Bc1-e3 and Qd1-f3 against the Taimanov, an innovative treatment of the Keres Attack, 5.c4 against the Kan. The authors develop many new plans for White, relying on their chess instincts and original analysis. GM Vassilios Kotronias is ten-time champion of Greece and a famous theoretician. His peak rating so far was 2628 in 2008. Semko Semkov played for Bulgaria in one Olympiad. He is a chess journalist and theoretician. He has authored The Most Flexible Sicilian, Kill K.I.D., Attacking the English/Reti, and other books.
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Quality Chess, 2013. — 464 p. — ISBN13: 978-1907982361. The French Defense is one of the most solid and strategically rich responses to 1.e4. Many chess opening lines have been analyzed to death by computer, but the French is relatively resistant to this growing trend, as the characteristic blocked pawn centre leads to situations where a player with superior understanding can...
Quality Chess, 2014. — 441 p. — (Grandmaster Repertoire). — ISBN: 978-1-907982-39-2. Grandmaster Repertoire 17 – The Classical Slav provides a sound and active repertoire based on 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4. White’s early deviations from move 3 onwards are also covered. GM Boris Avrukh has had the Slav in his repertoire throughout his career and has never lost a...
Chess Stars, 2015. — 348 p. — ISBN: 978-619-7188-03-5. Alexei Kornev offers a repertoire for White after 1.e4,c5; 2.Nf3, based on the Rossolimo Attack, 3.Bb5 after 2..Nc6; and the Moscow Variation, 3.Bb5+, after 2..d6. Against 2..e6 he recommends 3.g3 as a flexible response employed by many leading Grandmasters, including Magnus Carlsen. He also examines 2nd move alternatives...
Quality Chess, 2016. — 488 p. — ISBN13: 978-1784830236. The fourth volume of the Grandmaster Repertoire – 1.e4 series provides a top-class repertoire against the Taimanov, Kan and Scheveningen systems, plus all the other Sicilian lines that were not covered in the previous volumes. Negi takes the established main lines and injects them with his own innovative ideas, making the...
Quality Chess, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-1784830281 The Nimzo-Indian Defence has been one of the most trusted defences against 1.d4 ever since its conception a century ago. It has been used in World Championship matches by Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Carlsen. The Nimzo-Indian combines fast development with a solid pawn structure and great flexibility, which...
Chess Evolution. 2016. — 221 p. — ISBN: 9788394429096 At the present moment the London System is becoming increasingly popular at the top level - even in 'classical' tournament games, although it's much more often seen in rapid. Currently the top players who use it most frequently are American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky and Russian Grandmaster Boris Grachev, while other top...