Giddins/Welling: Side-Stepping Mainline Theory Bestseller premier chess instructor and trainer

premier chess instructor and trainer Mark Dvoretsky examines one of the most important aspects of positional skill

g3 (without c2-c4)

He is a FIDE master and former champion of the Danish region of Funen

forcing variations

die die wenigsten Leser schon gesehen haben werden

Giddins/Welling: Side-Stepping Mainline Theory Bestseller premier chess instructor and trainerCut Down on Opening Study and Get a Middlegame You Are Familiar With Spend more study time on what's really decisive in your games! The average chess player spends too much time studying opening theory. In his day, World Chess 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