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MICOS™
MasterInChess Openings System

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New Openings System featuring 3,815 Unique Chess Openings. Organized into 5 Main Groups and 57 MICOS Opening Groups.
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Claus Gamborg
MICOS™ Sub Groups
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MICOS 166 Opening Sub Groups.
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Claus Gamborg
Tactical Ambushes for
Practical Players Vol. I

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Deadly Opening Tactics Vol. I from MasterInChess Openings System (MICOS™).
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Claus Gamborg
Tactical Ambushes for
Practical Players Vol. II

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Deadly Opening Tactics Vol. II from MasterInChess Openings System (MICOS™).
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Claus Gamborg
101 Chess Opening
Surprises

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An Arsenal of Red-Hot Opening Ideas to Shock and Confuse your Opponents.
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Graham Burgess
200 King's Gambit Declined Miniatures
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Games Ending in 25 Moves or Less.
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Bill Wall
200 Opening Positions for White
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Kings Gambit Playbook - An Easy Repertoire for White.
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Tim Sawyer
700 Opening Traps
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From Alapin's Opening to Vienna Game.
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Bill Wall
888 Miniature Studies
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Beginners, Founder of the Modern Study and Various authors.
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Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparian
1.d4 Dynamic Systems
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Dutch Defence, Benoni Systems & Benko Gambit, Budapest Gambit
and Other Defences.
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Boris Avrukh
1.e4 vs Minor Defences
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The Alekhine, Scandinavian, Pirc/Modern and Other Miscellaneous Replies to 1.e4.
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Parimarjan Negi
A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire
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An Easy-to-Learn Repertoire for the Chessboard Assassin.
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Aaro Umersest and Sverre Johnsen
A Strategic Opening Repertoire. 2nd Edifion, Revised & Enlarged.
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Closed Sicilian Reversed, Symmetrical English and Others.
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John Donaldson & Carsten Hansen
An Idiot-Proof Chess Opening Repertoire
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An easy-to-learn repertoire where you can relax and just play chess!
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Graham Burgess
Attacking 1...d5
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The Geller-Gambit, The Semi-Slav, The Triangle System, Closed and Open Catalan.
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Kiril Georgiev
Attacking Chess
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Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves.
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Kiril Georgiev
Attacking the Caro-Kann White Repertoire
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The Advanced Variation of the Caro-Kann Defence
1.e4 с6 2.d4 d5 3.e5.
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Alexey Dreev
A Complete Defense for Black
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Strategic Themes and History.
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Raymond Keene and Byron Jacobs
A Repertoire for Positional Players
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Universal Program for both Novices and High Class Players.
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Eduard Gufeld and Nikolai Kalinichenko
Back to Basics: Openings
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Opening Principles and the Five Main Groups Openings.
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Carsten Hansen
Beat The Najdorf and Taimanov Sicilians!
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Foreword by Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand.
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Grandmaster S.P. Sethuraman
Beating The Fianchetto Defences
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Beating the Gruenfeld Defence, Benko/Volga Gambit, Modern Defence, Modern Benoni
and the King's Indian Defence.
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Efstratios Grivas
Beating the Sicilian Main Lines
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Anti-Najdorf and other Sicilians.
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Jonas Hacker
Beating Unusual Chess Openings
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The Symmetrical English and Unusual First Moves.
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Richard Palliser
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
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The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is a Favourite of Club Players.
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Gary Lane
Caruana’s Ruy Lopez
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A White Repertoire for Club Players.
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Fabiano Caruana
Challenging the Grünfeld
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Logical and Rare Lines.
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Edward Dearing
Chess Openings in General
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Chess Notation, Considerations and Game Examples.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Chess Opening Blunders
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Avoid Carelessness, Overconfidence and Tactical
Oversight.
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Bill Wall
Chess Opening Fundamentals
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The Importance of Starting a Game Properly.
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Igor Smirnov
Chess Openings for Beginners
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A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Openings.
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Magnus Templar
Chess Openings for Beginners
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The Complete Guide to Becoming A Chess Master.
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Robert King
Chess Openings for Black, Explained
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A Complete Reference for Your Entire Playing Career.
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Lev Alburt, Roman Dzindzichashvili and Eugene Perelshteyn
Coffeehouse Repertoire
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Sicilian Defence and Other Defences.
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Gawain Jones
Complete Defence to the Queen Pawn Opening
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Strategies and Tactics.
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Eric Schiller
Dangerous Weapons: The Ruy Lopez
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Dazzle Your Opponents!
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John Emms, Tony Kosten and John Cox
Disreputable Opening Repertoire
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Jonathan Tait's Opening Repertoire after 1.e4 e5.
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Jonathan Tait
Easy Guide to the Najdorf
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Variations in Move 6 and Najdorf Quiz.
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Tony Kosten
French Defence Advance Variation
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Volume 1: Basic Course - White Repertoire.
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Evgeny Sveshnikov
French Defence Advance Variation
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Volume 1"> Volume 2: Advanced Course - White Repertoire.
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Evgeny Sveshnikov
Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black
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Scandinavian Defence, Queens Gambit Declined and Flank Openings.
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Eric Schiller
How to win at Chess - Quickly
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The Key Skill is to recognise the critical moments that determines the Game.
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Simon Williams
Kings Indian Black Repertoire with f6, g6, d6
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The King’s Indian Defence.
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Alexei Kornev
Main Line 1.e4 Playbook
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200 Opening Chess Positions for White.
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Tim Sawyer
Mastering Opening Strategy
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The Principles with Examples in 5 Chapters.
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Johan Hellsten
Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.1
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Open Games and Semi-Open Games.
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John Watson
Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.2
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Closed Games and Indian Systems.
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John Watson
Mastering The Chess Openings Vol.3
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1.c4 Positional Ideas that Encompass the Entire Range of Practice.
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John Watson
Modern Chess Openings
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One-Volume Reference Book Covering all Chess Openings.
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Nick de Firmian
My First Opening Repertoire for Black
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A Ready-to-go Package for Ambitious Beginners.
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Vincent Moret
Open Games with Black
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The Open Games with Examples and Comments.
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Martin Lokander
Opening Preparation
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Exchange Slav: Strategy and Tactics.
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Roman Jiganchine
Opening Systems for Competitive Chess Players
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A Fire Set of Openings to learn in a minimum amount of time.
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John Hall
Openings for Amateurs
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The Openings are Solid and Aggressive.
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Pete Tamburro
Play the Accelerated Dragon
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Play the Accelerated Dragon, one of Black’s most popular choices in the Sicilian.
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Peter Lalic
Play the Alekhine
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The initial position of the Alekhine Defence
occurs after 1.e4 Nf6.
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Valentin Bogdanov
Play the Caro-Kann
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Main Line, Variances and Attacks.
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Jovanka Houska
Play the Dutch!
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1.d4 with 1...f5.Main line and Sidelines.
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Tibor Károlyi
Play the Semi-Slav
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This is a Repertoire Book on the Semi-Slav Defence to 1.d4.
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David Vigorito
Playing 1.d4
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Closed Games Guide.
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Lars Schandorff
Playing 1.d4 d5
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A Complete Guide for Black after 1.d4 d5 with Queen’s Gambit Declined, which arises after 2.c4 e6.
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Nikolaos Ntirlis
Playing 1.e4 French Defence & Sicilian Sidelines
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The purpose of Playing 1.e4 is to supply a top-class repertoire for White.
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John Shaw
Playing 1.e4 Sicilian Main Lines
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The Major Open Sicilian lines, particularly the Sveshnikov and Najdorf.
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John Shaw
Playing the Caro-Kann
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Black Plays the Caro-Kann to get a Complicated and Dynamic Game instead of merely a solid one.
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Lars Schandorff
Playing the Najdorf A Practical Repertoire
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6.
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David Vigorito
Playing the Nimzo-Indian
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Less Common 4th Moves, Kasparov Variation, Rubinstein Variation and Classical Variation.
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Renier Castellanos
Playing the Ragozin
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The Position of the Ragozin Occurs After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4.
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Richard Pert
Playing the Stonewall Dutch
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A Bold Repertoire.
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Nikola Sedlak
Playing the Sveshnikov
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5.
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Milos Pavlovic
Scandinavian Defence
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Winning With 2...Nf6.
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Marek Soszynski
Scandinavian Defense - Portuguese Variation
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1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4 - MICOS B03.012.SC.
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John Roush, Mark Lance and Mike Cornell
Semi-Slav 5 Bg5
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Key Lines and Variants Examined by Games.
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Bryan Paulsen
Squeezing the Caro-Kann
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The Caro-Kann Exchange Variation 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3.
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Alexander Khalifman and Sergei Soloviov
Starting Out! 1.d4!
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A Reliable Repertoire for the Improving Player.
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John Cox
Starting Out: Benoni Systems
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Attack on White's d4-pawn with ..c7-c5 and White Replies d4-d5.
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A. Raetsky & M. Chetverik
Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon
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Fundamental Coverage of a Dynamic Sicilian.
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Andrew Greet
Starting Out: The c3 Sicilian
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The c3 Sicilian arises after the moves 1.e4 c5 2.c3.
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John Emms
Starting Out: Sicilian Sveshnikov
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The Sveshnikov is a Unique Opening.
50 Modern Super Grandmasters would choose Najdorf and Sveshnikov Sicilians.
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John Cox
The Alterman Gambit Guide
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The Benko Gambit, Blumenfeld Gambit, Vaganian Gambit and The English Defense Gambit.
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Boris Alterman
The Anti-Alapin Gambit
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Death to the 2.c3 Sicilian!
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Cyrus Lakdawala & Carsten Hansen
The Art of the King's Indian
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Foreword by Garry Kasparov.
Undisputed World Champion 1985–1993 and Classical World Champion 1993–2000.
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Oleg Stetsko and Eduard Gufeld
The Berlin Defence
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 (the
Ruy Lopez) 3...Nf6.
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Michael Roiz
The Berlin Wall
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The variation that brought down Kasparov.
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John Cox
The Caro-Kann Revisited
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A Complete Repertoire for Black.
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Francesco Rambaldi
The Chess Bible 1.e4!
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Alekhine’s Defense, Nimzowitsch, Scandinavian, Pirc, Modern Defenses and Philidor Defense.
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Justin Tan
The Complete Ragozin
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The Strongest Ragozin Systems.
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Matthieu Cornette
The Dragon Vol. 1
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The Dragon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6.
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Gawain Jones
The Dragon Vol. 2
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The Dragon: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6.
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Gawain Jones
The English Opening Repertoire
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The English Opening Lines and Defences.
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David Cummings
The French Winawer
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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 with Famous Game Examples.
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Steve Giddins
The Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni
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Early Moves and Systems.
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John Watson
The Grandmaster's Openings Laboratory
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Complete Opening Repertoire at IM and GM Level.
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GM Igor Smirnov
The Hedgehog vs the English/Reti
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40 Instructive Games Annotated.
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Igor Lysyj & Roman Ovetchkin
The Hyper Accelerated Dragon
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The Book Presents a Repertoire for Black after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 -
The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon.
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Raja Panjwani
The Ideas behind Chess Openings
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1. e4, 1.d4, Réti and English Openings, Bird's and Irregular Openings.
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Reuben Fine
The Iron English
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This book is the Essence of The Iron English Course on Chessable.
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Simon Williams and Richard Palliser
The Italian Renaissance
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Move Orders, Tricks & Alternatives.
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Martyn Kravtsiv
The Modern English 1.c4 e5
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The English is The Most Promising Way of Starting a Game!
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Kiril Georgiev and Semko Semkov
The Modern Philidor Defence
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The book is devoted to Different Move-orders. Each Chapter Comprises of a "Quick Repertoire".
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Vladimir Barsky
The Modern Réti
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Anti-QGA, Reversed Benoni, Anti-Slav, Anti-Meran and Anti-Queen's Gambit.
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Alexander Delchev
The Modern Scotch
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The Most “Open” of all the Open Games. 30 Chapters with Openings.
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Alexander Khalifman and Sergei Soloviov
The Modern Triangle
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The Book is Devoted to the Triangle Set-up, which arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3/Nf3 3...c6.
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Semko Semkov
The Modernized Anti- Sicilians
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The Rossolimo.
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Ravi Haria
The Modernized Dutch Defense
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Early Sidelines after 1.d4 f5, Classical Systems and Reti & English.
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Adrien Demuth
The Modernized French Defense
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The French Defense Against the Tarrasch.
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David Miedema
The Modernized Grünfeld Defense
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Exchange Variations, Anti-Grünfeld and Other Variations.
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Yaroslav Zherebukh
The Modernized Modern Defense
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Illustrative Games, Pirc Transpositions, Systems Chess and Theoretical Pure Moderns.
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Daniel Fernandez
The Modernized Reti
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The Modernized Reti, a Complete Repertoire for White.
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Adrien Demuth
The Modernized Ruy Lopez
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A Complete Repertoire for White.
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Dariusz Świercz
The Modernized Sicilian Kan
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Chapter 1 – 5.Bd3 to Chapter 8 – Various 3rd moves.
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Adrien Demuth
The Modernized Stonewall Defense
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Systems with g3 and Nh3, g3 and Nf3 with ...Be7, g3 and Nf3 with ...Bd6. and other White Setups.
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Milos Pavlovic
The Najdorf in Black and White
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Play the Najdorf with White or Black, through Archetypal Games.
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Grandmaster Bryan Smith
The Nimzo and Bogo-Indian
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Bogo-Indian, Nimzo-Indian, Other Systems after 1.d4 Nf6 and Analyzed Games.
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Lukasz Jarmula
The Nimzo-Indian and Queen's Indian Defences
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6, the Nimzo-Indian Arising after 3.Nc3 Bb4 and the Queen’s Indian 3.Nf3 b6.
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Nigel Davies
The Nimzo-Indian
Bible for White Vol.1

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A Complete Opening Repertoire for White 4.Bd2 & 4.Qc2.
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Milos Pavlovic
The Nimzo-Indian
Bible for White Vol.2

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A Complete Opening Repertoire for White 4.e3.
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Milos Pavlovic
The Nimzo-Indian Defence
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The Nimzo-Indian Defence with Various 4th Moves and 4.e3 plus 4.Qc2.
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Michael Roiz
The Panov-Botvinnik Attack
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The Major and Minor Lines. Games with Excersis, Questions and Answers to Master the Opening.
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Lorin D’Costa
The Petrosian System Against the QID
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The Queen's Indian Defence 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6. Systems and Deviations
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Alexander Beliavsky and Adrian Mikhalchishin
The Philidor Files
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Early Deviations and Philidor Hanham Variation.
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Christian Bauer
The Pirc Defence
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The Repertoire Examined in this Book is Primary Positional Play.
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Mihail Marin
The Pirc - Modern Defence
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How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players.
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Tim Sawyer
The Queen’s Gambit
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Both Queens Gambit Accepted and Declined.
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Damian Lemos
The Réti
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The Repertoire Examined in this Book is Primary Positional Play.
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Sam Collins
The Safest Grünfeld
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The Major and Minor Lines. Games with Excersis, Questions and Answers to Master the Opening.
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Alexander Delchev and
Evgenij Agrest
The Safest Grünfeld Reloaded
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A Complete Repertoire for Black.
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Alexander Delchev
The Safest Scandinavian
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A Black Repertoire with 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6.
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Vassilios Kotronias
The Sicilian Najdorf 6. Bg5
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The Najdorf is Known as the Opening of the World Champions.
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Kevin Goh Wei Ming
The Sicilian Taimanov
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5...Nb5, 5.Nc3 Qc7, 6.Be2 and 6.Be3.
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Antonios Pavlidis
The Sicilian Taimanov Opening Repertoire
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Different Lines to Master The Taimanov.
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Nigel Davies
The Two Knights Defence
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The Two Knights Defence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6.
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Jan Pinski
The Ultimate Closed Sicilian
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A New Main Line and Different Systems with Games Analyzed.
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Gary Lane
Unbeatable! The Art of Defense
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Inaccurate Defense, The Rise of Defense in Chess History and Defensive Strategies.
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Jan Werle
Unortodox Chess Openings
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This Book Contains Examples of Hundreds of Strategies with a
Non Conformist Bent.
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Eric Schiller
Victory in the Opening
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The Art of Winning Quickly in Chess.
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Gary Lane
Win with the Caro-Kann
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A Choice of Counter-Attacking Options from a Sound Base.
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Sverre Johnsen and Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen
Winning the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
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62 Traps White can use.
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Bill Harvey
Winning the Budapest Gambit
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82 Traps that Black can really use.
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Bill Harvey
Winning the Ruy Lopez Marshall Gambit
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90 Traps Black can use.
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Bill Harvey
Winning the Staunton Gambit: 25 crushing blows
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White Quickly Offers a Pawn in the Staunton Gambit with 1.d4 f5 2.e4.
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Bill Harvey
Winning with the Modern London System
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A Complete Opening Repertoire for White against 1.d4 d5.
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Nikola Sedlak
Wojo's Weapons
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Wojo was able to Achieve a Stunning Winning Percentage of 80.2% over the course of 91 Games.
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Jonathan Hilton and Dean Ippolito
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