The Chess Advantage in Black and White: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters by Larry Kaufman

The Chess Advantage in Black and White: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters Larry Kaufman ebook
Page: 512
Format: pdf
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
ISBN: 0812935713, 9780812935714

Every competitive chess player needs to decide which openings he wants to play. Therein lies one of the puzzles of chess; Black has the Bishop pair and he'd like to see more open lines, while White obviously thinks disturbing the defenders of the Black K-side may permit some sudden piece attack on the Black monarch. For one turn only, a pawn has the option, known as en passant, of capturing an enemy pawn that has just made a first move of two squares to avoid being captured by moving only one; the capture occurs as though the pawn had moved only one square. The board is positioned so that a light-colored square is in the corner to the right of both players, each of whom is provided with 16 pieces, or chessmen, of black or white color. Player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, took the sole lead for the first time. The Grandmaster from Norway achieved little with White in a Ruy Lopez against Ivan Sokolov. Weighed up by a player to answer the question which is more true; will the more open position favor Black, or is there some very specific sequence of moves that can obtain a significant advantage by threatening the Black King? If you play openings poorly it is very difficult to hold the game in the middlegame as you already have lost some advantage and especially with white pieces where you can remain a tempo ahead throughout the opening part of the game. She quickly achieved an advantage with Black in a Sicilian Dragon, the same opening she lost to yesterday, and although Hou Yifan needed 85 moves to bring home her advantage, the full point was never really in doubt. A rough time thus far in Grandmaster Group A, but today things went her way. When the first row between a .. In that particular sense in few Sicilian openings where theory goes as deep as 25 or 30 moves it is considered by many experts as opening while others argue that it is part of the middlegame in chess.