1.d4 Openings

There are traps lurking in every stage of a chess game, b ...

Tired of playing the same old openings? Worried about having to learn too much theory? Then these books are what you're looking ...

The Kin ...

Burgess and Pedersen's Beating the Indian Defences makes no pretenses. White is given row after row of variations and subvariat ...

The King's Indian and the Grunfeld are two of Black's most popular answers to 1 d4; unsurprising given that they were long-time ...

The Benko Gambit is one of the most dynamic defences for Black against 1.d4 and is favoured by world class players such as Vese ...

The Fajarowicz variation of the Budapest Gambit is one of Black's most exciting options against 1 d4. Established 'theory' has  ...

The Catalan is one of the most popular openings and a favourite of many of the worls leading players. Its rich tactical and pos ...

Many players are attracted to the strategic complexity of 1.d4 openings but do not know how to deal with the dynamic Grunfeld D ...

Every competitive chess player needs a sound grasp of how to play this opening -- and especially how to meet the most popular l ...

Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but mor ...

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Chess Explained books provide an understanding of an opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the ri ...

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In hardly any other opening does the second player get so many chances for an early initiative as in the Chigorin Defence 1.d4  ...

A century after its invention by the great attacking player Mikhail Chigorin (1850 ...

The Classical Dutch is an ambitious and underrated defence to queen's pawn openings. With h ...

A system built around the moves - d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, c3, 0-0, Nbd2 - which has proved to be an excellent system for the club pla ...

This aggressive counterattacking repertoire gives you, as Black, a complete opening system against any Queen Pawn (1 d4) and Fl ...

The Samisch variation is commonly recognized as being the sharpest way of meeting the popular King's In ...

Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Fed up with constantly  ...