Chess Set

A player’s main goals for the opening are clear: to control the center, set up a flexible pawn structure, develop the pieces, sometimes even accomplish a direct attack. But there are so many complicated variations–how can you memorize them all? You can’t–and you don’t have to! If you understand the basic goals of the opening you’re playing, you will know which moves fit logically into its overall scheme. this classic, best-selling volume, now completely reset in modern algebraic notation, you need to know to play the opening successfully. International Grandmaster Reuben Fine was one of the world’s greatest players and a masterful theoretician. His books, including Basic Chess Endings and The Middle Game of Chess, are among the all-time classics of the literature.Specifications:Author: FineBook Type: Paperback, 1943Notation: Algebraic NotationPages: 182

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