Opening Repertoire for the Positional Player

by N.M. Kalinichenko, Nikolai Kalinichenko, Eduard Gufeld

Book Overview

One of the hardest tasks faced by competitive chess players is the development of an opening repertoire suited to their own style of play. As in their companion volume An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player (also translated by Ken Neat), the authors provide a refined and thoroughly up-to-date opening program, this time selecting variations of a more positional nature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857441524
• ISBN13: 9781857441529
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Everyman Chess
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great aggressive repertoire book

I love this book, and finally found a book that presents a comprehensive repertoire that I can live with. The recommendations rae internally consistent, such as the Vienna along with the Grand Prix attack, as both involvve an early f4, along with the Dutch, which involves an early ...f5. As another reviewer pointed out, this book contains enough information to get you up and running, to do further research. The book also is good in providing recommendations for all the other second moves you will see as black if you play the Dragon. I was pleasantly surpised by this book! It is really wonderful.

Good book..

I will always be indebted to this book for introducing me to the Sicilian Dragon and giving me enough information to start playing it with confidence. There is just enough information for all the openings to carry you to a good middle game position. I appreciate the explanitory notes too, just enough to explain what is going on without getting too verbose.

Excellent repertoire book

I'd recommend this to any attacking player who needs to develop an opening repertoire.

One of the best one-volume repertoire books

This book is about as thorough as a one-volume repertoire book can be. I strongly recommend this to the sort of player who wants to play sound, aggressive opening systems that give him good chances of early victory. None of the lines require one to study them twelve hours a day, and all are sufficiently complicated to offer good chances to both sides.On the down side, there are only fourteen illustrative games, but all the games are extremely interesting. This is not just a book of ideas; there is plenty of analysis of variations, too.WARNING: These openings are not for the faint of heart.