(Ebook) Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Vol.1 - Indian Defences - Hansen by Carsten Hansen
IntroductionThanks for picking up this book. I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading the book as much as I have writing it.We all dream of winning our games fast, using excellent opening preparation, flashy tactics and then mate ouropponents. However, it rarely goes like that. Usually, the games average around 40 moves, contain enough blunders onboth sides to have both you and your opponent horrified after the game. However, what I have found is that manygames, even amongst the strongest players, contain errors and mistakes, some quite significant ones, as soon as theplayers depart the theory that is known to them.This book, the first in a series of five, aim to take a look at some of those games, but only the ones that are of 15 movesor shorter. Of course, for a game to end within 15 moves, one of the players has to have made one or more seriousmistakes. I have left out games where a piece is threatened and the player forgot to move it, touched the wrong piece orsuch things. However, I have included games that include typical mistakes, even if they seem banal.As for the games they are typically between players with a rating of at least 2350 and often well more than that; you willfind games by players rated above 2700 in this book. Furthermore, I have included some older games, but where theplayers would most certainly have been rated above 2350 if rating had existed at that time.The openings covered in this volume are:• The King’s Indian Defense• The Grünfeld Indian Defense• The Queen’s Indian Defense• The Nimzo-Indian Defense• The Catalan Opening• The Blumenfeld Gambit• The Bogo-Indian DefenseIn opening encyclopedia terms this openings have the Chess Informant Opening code of D70 through E99.Should you have any comments, corrections or compliments, please do not hesitate to send them
[email protected] luck and enjoy!Carsten HansenBayonne, NJJanuary 2017
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