Willemze: The Scandinavian for Club Players

Autor: Willems, Thomas
Verlag: New in Chess
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Sprache: English
Buchumschlag: book
Seiten: 272

Start Playing an Unsidesteppable & Low Maintenance Response to 1.e4

The Scandinavian Defence is one of the most popular chess openings among amateur players, and it is easy to see why. Black players immediately limit the opening theory they have to know because there is no way White can side-step Black's first move. What's more, the Scandinavian requires only very little theoretical knowledge, so it has an extremely low maintenance factor. To cap it all, Black gets a solid structure.

And that's not even the end of the good news, as Thomas Willemze demonstrates in this compact and practical manual. Playing the Scandinavian teaches invaluable techniques that you can use in almost all of your other games. Pressing the centre, neutralizing your opponent's initiative, improving your piece coordination, trading the right pieces and exploiting your opponent's weak points are all typical 'Scandinavian' spin-offs that Thomas Willemze teaches you in his trademark lucid style.

The Scandinavian for Club Players offers everything you need to know to be fully prepared to meet 1.e4. The various lines are enriched with verbal explanations, diagrams, flash-cards and exercises that make this book even more accessible. Willemze not only uses examples from the games of elite grandmasters. As an experienced trainer he knows that discussing club player's adventures are particularly instructive for his target group.

Thomas Willems is an International Master from The Netherlands. He is an experienced trainer of amateur players and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. He is the author of the acclaimed 'What would you play?' column in New In Chess magazine, aimed at helping club players to improve their decision-making skills. In 2018 he published the best-selling improvement guide The Chess Toolbox , also available as a NIC Interactive eBook and a Chessable video course.

272 pages, paperback, 2021

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