Author: Steffen Pedersen
Pages: 224
Format: 14,5 x 21 cm.
ISBN: 1 901983 28 5

The Meran is an opening rich in both strategy and tactics, making it ideal for players seeking to win with either colour. It occupies an important place in the repertoires of many of the world's top players, with Anand, Kramnik, Kasparov and Karpov regularly taking one side or the other. The book provides the most detailed coverage to date of the Meran, together with several related variations, and the various Anti-Meran options available to White. Together with the author's The Botvinnik Semi-Slav, it provides complete coverage of the Semi-Slav, the most combative line of the Queen's Gambit.

Steffen Pedersen is a young international master from Denmark. He achieved a grandmaster norm when he was 16, and played in several World and European junior championship. In 1998 he was joint winner of the Hampstead Grandmaster tournament. He has written several highly-regarded books, with subjects including the Dutch Defence, Sicilian Scheveningen and the Benko Gambit.