Your Jungle Guide to 1.d4! Vol. 1A

To teoristerke stormestere innleder en ny serie repertoarbøker for hvit med 1.d4. Første bok handler om en del ulike dronninggambiter, egentlig alle de vesentlige unntatt hovedfortsettelsene 2...e6 og 2...c6.

Forlagets egen omtale:

Grandmasters Kotronias and Ivanov are renowned as leading theoreticians and chess trainers. They offer a unique and world-class complete repertoire based on 1.d4!

They advocate an ambitious approach for White, with the aim to fight for an advantage in any position. This is their first joint effort and we believe their job could not have been done any better.

Fra forordet:

In our view, a classical defensive scheme like the one the QGA embodies can hardly be refuted, and our analysis verifi ed that. But at the same time, what-ever chances existed for White in the related structures were used by us, in order to make Black’s life less easy. Our philosophy was to look for and fi nd the critical path, recommending strong attacking methods whenever that was possible, and clear cut strategic ideas when it was not. You will actually be sur-prised to see t hat even openings like t he Chigorin Defence, the Albin Counter-Gambit, and the Mirror Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5) have not been refuted, but at least there our task there was not as hard as in the lines of the QGA this volume includes, in particular the 3.e4 b5 Variation.

This book, or this series, if you so prefer, will require meticulous study if you want to reach a really high level of opening knowledge. On the other hand, we hope that even amateurs can profi t from the many included ideas and the many diagrams in critical (or non-critical) positions. It is impossible to remember everything from these dense pages, but what is possible is to get a feeling of the struggle. If you manage to achieve that, then our work’s aim will be fulfi lled.

Innholdet:

007 Introduction

009 Chapter 1. Chigorin

049 Chapter 2. Albin Gambit

069 Chapter 3. Baltic Ultimate

095 Chapter 4. Mamedyarov System

125 Chapter 5. Queen’s Gambit Accepted 3.e4 c5

203 Chapter 6. Queen’s Gambit Accepted 3.e4 b5