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Winning Chess Openings [Paperback]

Yasser Seirawan (Author)
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Publication Date: Oct 1 2003 | Series: Winning Chess - Everyman Chess
Start every game with confidence!

The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defence formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows players how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, they are shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.

Winning Chess Openings explains how to:
*Build a safe house for a king
*Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer
*Utilise the elements: time, force, space, and pawn structure
*Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles of play
*Employ a defence for Black against any White opening
*Apply an opening for White used by World Champions

Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

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Start every game with confidence!
The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.
Winning Chess Openings explains how to: build a safe house for a king; estimate losses of ten moves or fewer; utilize the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure; plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles; employ a defense for Black against any White opening; apply an opening for White used by World Champions.
Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play - without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.


About the Author

Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars 10 STARS! Jun 29 2004
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This is one of the greatest opening books of all time in my opinion! Unlike other chess books, you don't have to memorize tons of variations and alternatives to get better at playing the opening! My rating went up thirty points after the next tournament!

Seirawan also doesn't put all of his variations in the normal print, he bullets them, then goes over them one by one in order of most active!

And he does not only the openings, but their certain defenses in the fourth and fifth chapters! It's a great book for intermediate/beginners, to. You can learn a lot from chapter one, "early days," and enjoy his "cannon attack" and "queen raid"! I thoughtthat chapter was funny.

Yasser had a gift for writing. And he's letting yo make use of it! I would recommend this book to anybody from 600- 1300

I have a list of book that can improve your chess greatly as well:

1. Winning Chess Series- Yasser Seirawan #2
2. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess- Bobby Fischer #3

3. Everybody's Second Chess Book- Dan Hiesman#4
4. Chess for Juniors -Robert M. Snyder #1
5. Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors -Robert M. Snyder #1
6.Winning chess openings- Bill Robertie#8
7.Chess Travellers Quiz Book- Julian Hodgsen#6
8. Logical Chess-Reuben Fine #7
9. The Tao of Chess- Kurzdorpher #5

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Beginner learning Chess Jan 23 2004
By Louis E. Cobb Jr.
Format:Paperback
I have found that his method of teaching the opening to be the Best, it helps show his students why it takes time to understand what is happening early in the game. Seirawan has done a grandmaster's job with his Winning Chess Series of Books.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Chessmaster players Dec 24 2003
By Jerry Kovacich
Format:Paperback
I'm a chess enthusiast who mostly plays Chessmater 9000. According to the program, after 12 rated games, I'm somewhere around 1000, and that's only because one of the computer opponents, "Argyle", keeps beating my butt. Otherwise I think I'd be around 1200 becasue I have a fairly easy go with all the other opponents rated around the 1000 mark.

What I wanted from Sierawan's book was a good synopsis of modern King Pawn (e4) Defenses since that is what Chessmaster usually plays. I usually play white and I always open with e4. Why make it more complex than it has to be, eh? The real fun doesn't start until the middlegame, anyway, so let's just get there. The sooner the better.

Sierawan's book delivers just what the doctor ordered. There's a full chapter dedicated to modern King Pawn Defenses and their variations told in simple terms that you don't have to be a grandmaster to understand. So, if you're a Chessmaster player, I'd sugest you download the nifty Chesspad utility (http://www1.tip.nl/~t799997/chesspad.htm), and use it to study these openings. You'll be glad you did.

Chessmaster offers a fine reference to opennings itself in it's "library" feature, but I found Sierawan's book to be much more effective in giving me a grasp on what the openings are about.

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