The Fabulous Budapest Gambit

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056917494

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The Fabulous Budapest Gambit by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

The Budapest Gambit is popular with club and internet chess players all over the world, and it is easy to see why. It has surprise value, it’s not hard to learn, and it leads to sharp and dynamic play from the very start of the game. But what about its strategic value? When Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko started playing the Budapest many years ago, its all-round appeal struck him, and since then he has won many games with it. This book contains quite a few of Moskalenko’s own games, as well as games by other star players from the past and the present. They illustrate perfectly the dynamic character of this gambit as well as its solid strategic foundations. Moskalenko does not shower you with long computer-generated variations but clearly explains the plans for both White and Black. This New Edition is completely reworked and fully updated from the original 2007 publication; it has been extended by 25% and contains new analysis, new games, new ideas and lots of novelties.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781945896

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Play the Budapest Gambit by Andrew Martin Pdf

The Budapest Gambit 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e5) is an aggressive, dynamic approach for meeting 1 d4 and is a great line for throwing opponents onto their own resources. It is certainly double-edged as Black moves the same piece twice early on and also sacrifices a pawn. This pawn is often quickly regained but one of the great advantages of the Budapest is that if White tries to hang on to the pawn (and many players do) Black can quickly whip up a ferocious attack. A great number of materialistic but unprepared White players have found themselves swiftly demolished by Black’s tremendously active pieces. When White is more circumspect and allows Black to regain the pawn, play proceeds along more sedate strategic lines where Black enjoys free and easy development. Experienced chess author and coach Andrew Martin examines all key variations of the Budapest. There is an emphasis on typical middlegame structures and the important plans and manoeuvres are demonstrated in numerous instructive games. * Includes complete repertoires for Black with both 3...Ng4 and 3...Ne4 * Comprehensive coverage featuring several new ideas * Take your opponents out of their comfort zone!

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918293

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An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

Viktor Moskalenko is one of the leading chess instructors of our time. Not only has he coached Masters and Grandmasters, including Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk, he has also taught hundreds of classes for amateurs and his best-selling books have inspired thousands of ambitious club players all over the world. Moskalenko’s previous and highly popular chess opening books were mainly written for the Black pieces. Now he presents an extremely powerful set of lines for White. The guiding principle of his 1.d4 repertoire is: be bold and put pressure on your opponent as early as possible. Moskalenko does not shower you with long computer-generated variations, but has a keen eye for the essence of positions. His talent to find new resources in well-known lines results in a host of novelties, daring recommendations and cunning tricks. When you play his lines and follow his recommendations you will frequently surprise your opponent and build up positions full of swing. Studying An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 is a delight because this is a typical Moskalenko book: practical, accessible, original, entertaining and inspiring.

Author : Gerard Welling,Steve Giddins
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918705

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Side-stepping Mainline Theory by Gerard Welling,Steve Giddins Pdf

The average chess player spends too much time on studying opening theory. In his day, World Champion Emanuel Lasker argued that improving amateurs should spend about 5% of their study time on openings. These days club players are probably closer to 80%, often focusing on opening lines that are popular among grandmasters. Club players shouldn't slavishly copy the choices of grandmasters. GMs need to squeeze every drop of advantage from the opening and therefore play highly complex lines that require large amounts of memorization. The main necessity for club players is to emerge from the opening with a reasonable position, from which you can simply play chess and pit your own tactical and positional understanding against that of your opponent. Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins recommend the Old Indian-Hanham Philidor set-up as a basis for both Black and White. They provide ideas and strategies that can be learned in the shortest possible time and require the bare minimum of maintenance and updating. They deliver exactly what you need: rock-solid positions that you know how to handle. By adopting a similar set-up for both colours, with similar plans and techniques, you further reduce study time. With this compact and straightforward opening approach, Welling and Giddins argue, club players will have more time to focus on what is really decisive in the vast majority of non-grandmaster games: tactics, positional understanding and endgame technique.

Author : Ioannis Simeonidis
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056919382

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Carlsen's Neo-Møller by Ioannis Simeonidis Pdf

White players will thoroughly dislike the Neo-Møller! The Ruy Lopez is one of the most important chess openings, hugely popular with amateurs and masters alike. Black players allowing the Ruy Lopez main lines are usually condemned to passivity, defending a slightly worse (though solid) position for as long as White chooses this situation to continue. World Champion Magnus Carlsen doesn’t like passivity. He likes unconventional and active systems that allow him to take command and put pressure on his opponent from early on. That’s why Magnus Carlsen revolutionized the old Møller Attack, one of the sharpest and most uncompromising variations against the Ruy Lopez. As yet largely disregarded and unexplored by the majority of players, Carlsen’s new approach allows Black to break free early and start giving White a hard time. FIDE Master Ioannis Simeonidis is the first to investigate this system, cover it in detail, and make it easy to grasp for club players. He has called it the Neo-Møller. Simeonidis has made lots of exciting discoveries, presents many new ideas and shows that it is a reliable and playable system. Since the Neo-Møller is a very early deviation from the main lines, it’s easy for Black to actually get it on the board and take opponents out of their comfort zone. Simeonidis has created a compact, accessible and inspirational book. One thing looks certain: White players of the Ruy Lopez are going to thoroughly dislike the Neo-Møller!

Author : Graham Burgess
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 191146518X

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125 Chess Opening Surprises by Graham Burgess Pdf

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056919405

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The Fully-Fledged French by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

Viktor Moskalenko’s bestselling books The Flexible French (2008) and The Even More Flexible French (2015) were hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, and inspirational. Time has not stood still, and the popular French Defence has seen a lot of new developments, not in the last place thanks to Moskalenko’s books. The Ukrainian grandmaster himself has kept playing and researching his beloved chess opening and decided to write a new book with countless improvements, alternatives, new ideas and fresh weapons that will delight and surprise the reader. As always, Moskalenko’s analysis is high-level, yet his touch is light and fresh. In his own inimitable style, he whets the reader’s appetite and shares his love for the French with gusto. The wealth of original and dynamic options in every main line proves that the French continues to be a highly intriguing defence that is very much alive. The Fully-Fledged French is a typical Moskalenko book: practical, accessible, original, entertaining and inspiring.

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9056912453

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The Flexible French by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

The famous French Defence, one of the most widely-played chess openings, is a fighting opening, which perfectly suits many club players as well as a growing number of top players. International grandmaster and former Ukrainian champion Viktor Moskalenko presents a wealth of original and dynamic options in every main line. His analysis is high-level, yet his touch is light and fresh, and the book sparkles with original ideas. He rounds off with seven relatively unknown weapons, early deviations with which you may surprise your opponent ? as Black or as White!

Author : Otto Borik
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Chess
ISBN : 0713452978

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Budapest Gambit by Otto Borik Pdf

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056915148

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The Diamond Dutch by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko shakes up the lines of yet another chess opening! For those who have the Dutch Defense in their repertoire or play against it, this brings an explosive mixture of danger and opportunity. Danger if you stick to your old ways, opportunity if you are ready to take up Moskalenko’s new weapons or his refutations of old ones. Moskalenko covers the Anti-Dutch, Leningrad, Stonewall and Classical variations. He guides you through this ground-breaking opening book with the enthusiasm, the ease and the humor that characterize his style. For ‘The Diamond Dutch’ goes what chess star Vassily Ivanchuk said about Moskalenko’s previous work ‘The Perfect Pirc-Modern’: “This book will undoubtedly help you to master not just the Pirc and Modern Defences, but also to systematize and perfect your understanding of the key points of other openings.” ,

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789493257108

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The Trompowsky Attack & London System by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

This book not only covers the most-played opening in online chess, but a complementary opening system as well. It makes sense to study both the versatile London System – moving the bishop to f4 - and the more aggressive Trompowsky Attack, moving the bishop to g5. This will offer White more flexibility and deepen your understanding of both systems. It gives White the opportunity to surprise his opponent, while still playing the same opening patterns. And both openings are connected by a large number of possible transpositions. This complete opening repertoire has a limited (but flexible) scope, which is ideal for club players who can spend only so many hours on studying chess. Like all Moska's books, Trompowsky Attack & London System is practical, accessible, original, entertaining and inspiring. The two systems are explored in 46 games, of which Moskalenko played eleven himself.

Author : Victor Bologan
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056912461

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The Chebanenko Slav According to Bologan by Victor Bologan Pdf

Chebanenko's move 4?a6 in the Slav Defence has grown into one of the main systems for Black as it is an extremely flexible and almost universal weapon against the Queen's Gambit. The Chebanenko Slav is very popular among top chess players, and club and internet players like it as well, because it offers Black solidity and active counterplay in all lines. Victor Bologan is a world-class chess player, writes in a very accessible style and has included many tips, tests and tools.

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Games
ISBN : 9789056915209

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The Perfect Pirc-Modern by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

Bestselling author Viktor Moskalenko takes on another important chess opening! The Pirc and Modern are flexible openings, rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Kramnik, Grischuk and Ivanchuk, but are also quite popular at club level. Moskalenko, a renowned champion of dynamic play, highlights the ideas and plans, offers invaluable insights into transpositions and pawn structures, and reveals numerous novelties and new resources in well-known lines for both Black and White. In his usual crystal clear style, with a light touch, Moskalenko takes the reader by the hand and shares his own wide experiences and deep analysis in the Pirc-Modern. Great opening instruction and a joy to read!

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9056915746

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The Even More Flexible French by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf

"When Viktor Moskalenko's The Flexible French appeared in 2008, it caused a sensation. It was hailed by reviewers from all over the world as eye-opening, full of new ideas, easy to read, sparkling, accessible and inspirational. Time has not stood still, and the popular French Defense has seen a lot of new theoretical developments. Seven years after the publication of The Flexible French, Viktor Moskalenko has decided to fully revise, update and extend his modern classic. The Even More Flexible French has largely the same structure as its predecessor, but the content is fully up-to-date on the latest theory. Moskalenko has found hundreds of improvements, alternatives, new ideas and fresh weapons that will delight and surprise the reader."--provided by publisher.

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9056913271

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The Wonderful Winawer by Viktor Moskalenko Pdf