My First Chess Opening Repertoire for Black: A Ready-to-go Package for Ambitious Beginners

by Vincent Moret

Overview

Every chess player needs to decide which openings he or she is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of chess opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. If you are trying to win in 20 moves, copy what’s in fashion among top-GM’s or memorize variations, you are wasting your time. Most likely you will never get to play your ‘preparation’ and end up aimlessly switching from one opening to the other. After the success of his volume for White, experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret now provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for Black. It consists of a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginners and post-beginners. To show the typical plans and the underlying ideas in the various lines of his repertoire, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. He also uses games of young, improving players to highlight the errors they tend to make.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789056917463
Publisher:	New in Chess
Publication date:	10/20/2017
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Vincent Moret (1968) has been teaching chess and training talented youngsters for more than 20 years. Many of his pupils have won important prizes and some have become Masters and Grandmasters.

Table of Contents

Explanation of Symbols 6

Introduction 7

Chapter 1 The Scandinavian, introduction and general ideas 9

Chapter 2 The Icelandic Gambit 20

Chapter 3 The Scandinavian Defence, Portuguese variation: the quiet line with 4.e2 33

Chapter 4 The Scandinavian Defence, Portuguese Variation: the classical system with 4.4f3 46

Chapter 5 The Scandinavian Defence, Portuguese Variation: the critical line with 4.f3 69

Chapter 6 The Modern Variation 91

Chapter 7 Odds and ends 101

Chapter 8 The Albin Countergambit 112

Chapter 9 The Stonewall: an unreachable fortress 141

Chapter 10 The English and the Réti 180

Chapter 11 The irregular openings 196

Chapter 12 Solutions to Exercises 219

Bibliography 237

Index of games 238