Creative Chess Opening Preparation

by Eingorn, Viacheslav

• ISBN13: 9781904600589
• ISBN10: 1904600581
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Gambit

Summary

Grandmaster Eingorn is an chess opening trendsetter. Throughout his career, he has introduced many novel concepts in the openings, and some of the systems he has introduced have gone on to become absolute main lines, such as the RbI Exchange Grunfeld. Here he explains the methods by which he prepares his openings and works out new systems from scratch, and how readers can do the same. The broad topics he discusses include Experiments in the Opening, Disturbing the Equilibrium, Strategic Planning, and Opening Formations. He follows this up with a section of examples from modern practice, and theoretical articles on several of the opening lines that he has pioneered, taking us through the creative process, and the highs and lows of the practical testing and refinement of the ideas.

Table of Contents

Symbols	4	(1)
Experiments in the Opening	5	(25)
Transgressing the Rules	5	(7)
Goals and the Means of Attaining Them	12	(10)
The Battle of Ideas	22	(8)
Disturbing the Equilibrium	30	(26)
The Advantage of the First Move	30	(9)
Drastic Measures	39	(9)
Borderline Positions	48	(8)
Strategic Planning	56	(28)
Positional Assessment: A Dualism of Factors	56	(9)
General and Specific Reasoning	65	(9)
A Choice of Priorities	74	(10)
Opening Structures	84	(29)
A Problem of Our Own Choosing	84	(7)
Secondary Variations	91	(11)
Recurrent Opening Situations	102	(11)
The Modern Game of Chess	113	(21)
`Scientific' Opening Play: A School and its Crisis	113	(7)
The Opening as an Accurate Move Sequence	120	(7)
g4: A Symbol of Chess Progress	127	(7)
A Theoretical Kaleidoscope	134	(23)
Corrections to Theory	134	(6)
The Chess Designer	140	(7)
History of a Variation	147	(10)
Index of Players	157	(2)
Index of Openings	159