How to Out-Prepare Your Opponent: A Complete Guide to Successful Chess Opening Preparation

by Jeroen Bosch

Overview

The number of hours you can spend on opening preparation is endless. Books, videos and databases offer hundreds of ever-widening variations. But how do you find your way through this labyrinth? Where do you start? And, maybe even more importantly: where do you stop?

International Master Jeroen Bosch provides a solution to those answers. He presents a structured approach to the study of openings and the preparation for a club match or a tournament game.

Every time-strapped chess improver will love Bosch’s approach: instead of studying more hours or memorizing more lines he advises you to start making smart choices. The goal is not to reach a slight advantage in every possible line. The goal is to dictate what will happen on the board. You want to get a position you understand and are happy to play, and make your opponent feel uncomfortable.

Jeroen Bosch provides you with all the tools you need to dominate the opening phase of the game: how to use move order and how to use tactics. He explains when to play a main line, when to come up with an opening surprise, or when to risk a gambit. And much, much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789056919993
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	10/15/2022
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	658,794
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

International Master Jeroen Bosch is an experienced chess coach and author. He created and edited the successful 14-volume series Secrets of Opening Surprises. As an executive of the Dutch Chess Federation, he has captained the Dutch women’s team and is editor-in-chief of the Dutch Chess Magazine.

Table of Contents

Explanation of symbols 6

Foreword Anish Giri 7

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 Tactics in the opening 13

Chapter 2 Move order and the art of interpolating moves 32

Chapter 3 Novelty! 55

Chapter 4 Preparing for a specific opponent or situation 83

Chapter 5 Deep opening preparation (is 0.00 equal?) 118

Chapter 6 Gambits: love them or hate them 137

Chapter 7 Surprise variations: the benefit of playing your own systems 164

Chapter 8 Entering the main lines 202

Chapter 9 The opening strategy of Magnus Carlsen 281

Chapter 10 FAQ: everything you always wanted to know about the opening, but were afraid to ask 357

Index of openings 405

Index of names 406

Bibliography 414