Monday, March 05, 2007

Chess: Attacking with 1d4

Attacking with 1d4 (2001) by Angus Dunnington

As the author points out in the preface, this book is not intended to be a watertight chess repertoire book.

It features 30 complete games, heavily annotated to illustrate the principles of attacking with 1d4 versus various defenses such as Queen's Gambit Accepted, Queen's Gambit Declined, Slav, King's Indian, Benoni, Grunfeld, Nimzo-Indian, Dutch, and others.

The book is very densely packed with information. And like all good chess books, you cannot get a lot out of it without setting up a chess board and playing out the moves as you read.

An excellent book. Well worth reading, more than once.

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