Category Archives: Opening News
Book Review: The Sicilian Dragon by David Vigorito
This is a very recent publication from Everyman Chess. The author is an American IM, David Vigorito. ‘The Sicilian Dragon’ and is one of a series in the ‘Chess Developments’ collection. My only criticism is that …
B C M Plans for 2012
One B C M plan for this year to to make a special study of certain openings and defences, to feature systems that aren’t exactly getting top marks in the popularity stakes. Last year, almost …
1000 TN!!:The Best Theoretical Novelties (Chess Informant)
Informator has been going since 1966, that’s almost the dark ages in terms of computers, the dates of birth of modern grandmasters, modern gadgets of all sorts. Then along came the Yugoslav publication ‘Chess Informant’ …
The Peter Principle 2
C Purdon PA Williams Berks and Bucks Congress (4), 28.08.2011 Slav D17 [Williams] I needed to win this game, to be in with a chance of winning the tournament. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 …
Book Review: play the Benko gambit
New Books and Reviews in Brief chessparrot@hotmail.com play the Benko gambit – Nicolai V Pedersen (Everyman Chess 2011). pb. fan. cp US $26.95/UK £15.99. 208 pages. 49 games. Bibliography. Intro (‘ideas and themes’) Everyman Chess …
