About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486227952

ISBN-139780486227955

eBay Product ID (ePID)420304

Product Key Features

Book TitleHow to Play the Chess Openings

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1971

TopicChess

IllustratorYes

GenreGames & Activities

AuthorEugene Znosko-Borovsky

Book SeriesDover Chess Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN77-168906

Dewey Edition18

Dewey Decimal794.122

Edition DescriptionReprint,New Edition

SynopsisAn International Grandmaster focuses on purpose and plan rather than memorization, explaining how to avoid amateur mistakes and classic traps. Requires only knowledge of fundamental rules and ordinary chess notation., An International Grandmaster offers a thorough understanding of the all-important opening game in its many variations. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky focuses on purpose and plan rather than memorization of moves, explaining how to avoid amateur mistakes and classic traps. Requires only knowledge of the fundamental rules and ordinary chess notation., With this book, all one needs to know are the fundamental rules of chess and ordinary chess notation in order to gain a thorough understanding of the all-important opening game in its many variations. Simply, clearly, and with keen appreciation of the amateur's usual limitations, International Grandmaster Znosko-Borovsky explains the importance of rapid development of the pieces, occupation of the center, the relation of the opening to the general plan of the player, and the significance of control of the center. Each major opening is then detailed and analyzed with the emphasis on explanation that is easy to follow. Special attention is paid to traps -- both the mistakes often made by amateurs, and the classic traps, such as Greco's and Tarrasch's. "Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory," says Znosko-Borovsky, and he promotes the reader's understanding of the openings by discussing purpose and plan frequently, as against memorization of moves. Those acquainted with Znosko-Borovsky's other books, How Not to Play Chess and The Art of Chess Combination will rediscover in this book Znosko-Borovsky's unique clarity, ease of style, and profundity. "In the teaching of chess he may claim to have no superior." -- Philip W. Sergeant.

LC Classification NumberGV1450.Z51