Mastering the Chess Openings (Vol. 3): Understanding the English Opening and related structures - John Watson

Paperback, 351 pages

In this highly-acclaimed and popular series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind the specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type.

This third volume moves on to flank openings. Watson provides in-depth coverage of the English Opening, while drawing upon many themes from the first two books. Patricularly in the context of reversed and analogous forms of standard structures, we understand why certain ideas work and others don't, and experience the concept of 'Cross-Pollination' at work in even more varied froms than seen in earlier volumes.

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