Autor/Author:Daniel Elguezábal Varela
ISBN: 84 932131 4 4
Páginas/Pages: 238
Tamaño/Size: 17x24
Fecha de Publicación/Date of Publication: 2002

All chess lovers – from the maximum exponents of the international elite to amateurs making their first moves – experience a sort of vertigo when they watch the thirty-two perfectly lined chessmen, (as if) waiting to become part of some strategy.
Which move should be made? What should be done with the pieces? How should one start the game?
Knowledge of the different openings is basic, in order to answer such questions. Inherent in every opening, in each variant, there is a particular playing criteria, a way of shaping the game. Because of this, relying on clear ideas during the first moves subsequently enables the player to develop and implement action plans or to modify them, depending on his rival´s game.
This course, comprising three volumes : Closed Systems, Open Systems and Semi open Systems, attempts to schematically shape and update the most widely used openings and variants.
These systems usually lead to classic attacking positions and are favoured by players who love agressive games.
The election of open openings generally implies a tactical and combinational game, but it should be pointed out that on many ocassions they also allow the player to apply strategic planning procedures – as is the case of the Spanish Opening. Other examples of open systems are the Italian Opening, the King´s Gambit, or Petroff´s Defence, all of them developed in this book.