Queen Pawn Openings

Benko Gambit [Back to Top]

The Benko Gambit
Walton, J. 1990. 52 pages
OP82279 $5.00

By historical games (with a lot of opening analysis within the game) the author covers variations of 1 d4, Nf6 2 c4, c5 3 d5, b5 4 cxb5, a6.

Blackmar Diemer [Back to Top]

500 Blackmar Diemer Gambit Miniatures
Wall, B. 1999. 93 pages
OP50792 $7.50

The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is popular because it is a basis for attacking chess. As a result many of these games are fun to play and likewise entertaining to see. Author Bill Wall has collected five hundred examples of this scintillating opening, featuring games with fewer than twenty moves. In this opening, errors are punished quickly and firmly!

Colle [Back to Top]

Colle System, 12th Edition
Koltanowski, G. 1990. 88 pages
OP22729 $6.50

International GM George Koltanowski's Colle System has reached the twelfth edition, with this translation of this highly popular book into algebraic notation. Much of the success of this book is due to the innate ability of Koltanowski to convey the concepts clearly and simply. This book really teaches how to understand and play an opening. For this reason the book has endured to become a classic. Koltanowski emphasizes the importance of understanding the role of the opening in leading into winning endgame positions. The book contains a large selection of games to illustrate the author's points.

King's Indian [Back to Top]

The Unconventional King's Indian
Watson, J. 1997. 212 pages
OP80528

Currently out of stock!

While books on the King's Indian Defense abound, chess theoreticians have tended to ignore or give short shrift to the 'unconventional' variations. But such variations are encountered in more than a third of the games actually played! At the Club level, the 'unconventional' lines are even more common so that any King's Indian player who is not prepared to meet these systems will be at a serious disadvantage.

Noted writer and player John Watson remedies the previous lack of attention to these 'unconventional' lines. He offers the player of Black a complete and detailed repertoire versus every 'unconventional' White move order. He covers such popular lines as the Kramer System, the Bd3 System, h3 systems, as well as club favorites such as the Torre Attack and the London System. He provides an extraordinary number of original suggestions, and his new analysis often overturns the assessments of older theory. To help the reader find a repertoire to fit his or her own taste, the book gives at least two distinct solutions to each White system, corresponding to different styles of play.

Queen's Gambit [Back to Top]

500 Queen's Gambit Miniatures
Wall, B. 1985. 127 pages.
OP22578 $6.50

Some chess players assume that the Queen's Gambit produces stodgy games. The collection quickly disproves that theory. Here are 500 victories in 25 moves or less. All levels of chess skill are represented -- from grandmasters and world champions to "wood pushers." The games arranged by variation and indexed by player's names.

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