![]() The Powerful Catalan is almost there, maybe making it good enough to buy, but isn't quite there. After sharp tactical complications or quiet maneuvering pieces will eventually come off. I'm keeping the Berlin Wall in my repertoire, just have to decide openings with the endgame in mind. I studied the other endgame types too, but nearly everyone studies rook endgames and many minor piece endings are easy enough to figure out OTB (though obviously there are exceptions here). *Slaps self in the forehead* Cox! Yes he's the author I was thinking of for a Ruy Lopez book and not just Marin! It's a great book, though I recently completed the Queen Volume of CCE so I may not want to give the opponent a queen trade option so early. Personally i like "The Berlin Wall" of John Cox it has everything you asked for and more.ġ) First it explains the strategic ideas of the Berlin in a good way.Ģ) Then it continues by explaining how to play with various combinations of remaining pieces (for example R/B/N vs R/B/B)ģ) Then it explains common tactics and motives such as pawnbreaks that often come up in the berlinĤ) Then finally moves are discussed based on actual games with both black losses and black wins. You get a very "basic" understanding of the opening with the general themes, but comes nowhere close to showing all of White's options at move 9, or all of Black's options at move 11, etc. Nd7, 3 or 4 games of each of the two main Advanced Variation lines, etc. Like "Starting Out: The Caro-Kann" by Joe Gallagher, covers all the lines with complete games, and is objective, but you might get 2 to 4 games of Classical with. Generic opening books that cover openings at the 10,000 foot level. The games selected tend to be games where Black won.ģ. So this wouldn't do much good to study from the White side. It won't cover the Winawer, the Classical, or the Burn. For example, in a book by Neil McDonald in 2008 or so, he gives a French Repertoire where say, after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5, it will cover all of White's options (3.Nc3, 3.Nd2, 3.e5, 3.exd5, Gambit lines), but say, against 3.Nc3, it will give the Rubenstein (3.dxe4) and the Steinitz/MacCutcheon (3.Nf6 4.e5 and 3.Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4). However, it doesn't cover the French in its entirity, and simply gives Black a repertoire, and give one or two lines against each of White's options. These are books where maybe it's say, for Black against 1.e4. Repertoire books that cover for one side only. ![]() These tend to be "opening trees" where 15 to 20 moves are given, and then assessed as "Better for White", "Equal", "Black has compensation", etc.Īn example of this would be "The Classical King's Indian Uncovered"Ģ. "Objective" books that are "specialized" and focus on a single variation of a single opening. Opening books will generally fall into one of the following categories:ġ. ![]() He has taught these openings to hundreds of beginners.The type of book you are looking for will never exist. This article was co-authored with my son William Root. There is no pawn chain! While there are quite a few ways to play the Exchange French, one plan for Black is to castle queenside and then pawn storm on the kingside. The Exchange French requires a different mindset than the previous three variations. Black induces White to create a pawn chain, then pressures its base. The above variations are similar from Black’s perspective. The following lines also focus on Black attacking the base of White’s pawn chain in similar ways: When Black has more attackers than White (an important concept for beginners to learn), Black captures White’s d4-pawn. ![]() Black frequently tries to pressure White’s d4-pawn more by bringing the g8-knight to f5. Since Black remembers that the goal is to pressure the base of the pawn chain, the next few moves are intuitive 4… Nc6 5. Black’s goal is then to pressure the base of the pawn chain, which 3…c5 does. First, let’s discuss the Advance Variation. Three common variations of the French Defense all have clear goals.
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