Winning Chess Openings

by Seirawan, Yasser

• ISBN13: 9780735609150
• ISBN10: 0735609152
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Microsoft Pr

Summary

The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the opening phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with either White or Black pieces. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S. Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion, and an eight-time member of the U.S. Chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the world's top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
Early Days	p. 1
Basic Opening Principles	p. 25
Classical King Pawn Openings	p. 33
Classical Queen Pawn Openings	p. 73
Modern King Pawn Defenses	p. 101
Modern Queen Pawn Defenses	p. 153
An Opening Solution	p. 199
A Solution to the Queen Pawn Opening	p. 213
A Solution to the King Pawn Opening	p. 223
Glossary	p. 239
Index	p. 251
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