Barsky: The Ragozin Complex - A Guide for White and Black

Autor: Barsky, Vladimir
Verlag: New in Chess
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Sprache: English
Buchumschlag: book
Seiten: 351

The Ragozin Complex is a flexible and versatile chess opening system. This important variation in the Queen's Gambit was employed by great champions of the 20th century like Alekhine and Capablanca and it remains a dangerous weapon in the hands of modern top-level players like Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik and Vasily Ivanchuk.

But what exactly is The Ragozin Complex? Amazingly, this has never before been explained in a comprehensive book. Acclaimed chess author Vladimir Barsky has now filled this gap. He pays tribute to the legendary Soviet player and writer Isaak Lipnitsky whose ideas on the Ragozin were a part of his famous Questions of Modern Chess Theory, published in 1956.

While many of Lipnitsky's ideas are still of value today, The Ragozin Complex sizzles with fresh and topical material from recent times, systematically collected in seven chapters that explain all the plans and counterplans in the critical lines.

For the first time, amateurs can acquaint themselves with the intricacies of the Ragozin system and start playing this flexible opening with confidence. But also professional chess players will see many secrets of this system unveiled by this practical overview.

Vladimir Barsky (1969) is an International Chess Master, a successful coach and an experienced journalist from Russia. He has written several successful books on chess openings: The Modern Philidor Defence (2010), A Universal Weapon 1.d4 d6 (2011), and, together with grandmaster Alexander Morozevich, The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich (2007).

Contents
From the Author
How to study a Concrete Opening, by Isaak Lipnitsky
Chapter One - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Qa4+
Chapter Two - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Qc2
Chapter Three - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Qb3
Chapter Four - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.e3
Chapter Five - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.a3
Chapter Six - 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5
Chapter Seven 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5
Index of Players
Games List
Index of Variations
Bibliography

351 pages, 2011, paperback, English.

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