Queens Gambit: Orthodox Defence

by Lev Polugaevsky

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713459409
• ISBN13: 9780713459401
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: B.T. Batsford
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

GREAT BOOK!!!

This is by far the most complete book on the Queen's Gambit Declined I've ever seen! It surely deserves five stars, at least for the Author's enthusiasm in sharing all his knowledge about this important opening system. Previous works (by Pachman, Nejstadt etc.) are important as well as later ones (by Marovic, Sadler, etc.), but Polugaevsky's prose is especially flavoured and inspired. He investigates every variation deeply and provides some beautiful games at the end of the book. The theory here provided has been somehow surpassed in the twenty years from the time the book was written (1985, revision of 1988), but Polugaevsky's explanations are still first quality. There are just a few typos but I suspect that two translations from the Russian original (first to German and then to English) somewhat impaired this masterpiece. I found just an analytical error at page 255 in the Author's comments on the beautiful win by Geller over Psakhis in Erevan 1985: in his notes to the game Polu states that after 21.Kxd1 Bf3+ Black wins a piece but in fact the simple move 21.Qxd1 is winning for White. Probably Polugaevsky leaves out that Black should play and win with 19...Bc4 instead of 19...Qxh1+ I definitely recommend this (GREAT) book!