Winning with the Trompowsky

by Peter Wells and Peter Wells

The accelarated development of the White queen's bishop after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 was for many years considered a bizarre chess opening, practiced only by a few "eccentric" chess players scattered around the globe, including the Brazilian Octavio Trompowsky, after whom the variation was named. Then in the 1990s, after a chance discovery, the young English grandmaster, Julian Hodgson, started to play it on the UK and international chess circuit with dramatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071348795X
• ISBN13: 9780713487954
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: B.T. Batsford
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 9.2"