Side-Stepping Mainline Theory: Cut Down on Chess Opening Study and Get a Middlegame You Are Familiar with

by Steve Giddins and Gerard Welling

The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day, World Champion Emanuel Lasker argued that improving amateurs should spend about 5% of their study time on openings. These days club players are probably closer to 80%, often focusing on opening lines that are popular among grandmasters. Club players shouldn't slavishly copy the choices of grandmasters. GMs need to squeeze every drop of advantage from the opening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056918699
• ISBN13: 9789056918699
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: New in Chess
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.2"