Chess Opening Origins; Ruy Lopez

En inspirerende og praktisk bok for å lære Spansk. Her uten a6, altså 1 e4 e5 2 Sf3 Sc6 3 Lb5 med andre aktuelle svar som 3...d6, f5, Lc5, g6, Sge7 og ikke minst Sf6. Her forklares gamle og nye mesterpartier med vekt på planer.

Ikke minst en genial bok for alle særlig opp til ratingnivå cirka 2100 som spiller eller kan tenke seg å spille den strategisk kjernesunne åpningen Spansk med hvit.

Utgiverens egen omtale:

Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th-grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world--in alphabetical order!

The Origins series is an attempt at a "big picture" view that displays the interlocking parts of a much larger mechanism in time. In this volume, the authors cover lines where Black does not meet 3 Bb5 with 3...a7-a6, and vast portions of this volume, are devoted to Berlin Defense Closed lines and the Berlin Wall Ending.