PCO: Practical Chess Openings

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Vydanie 2025
Počet strán 544
Formát A5
Jazyk anglický

A modern one-volume openings encyclopedia that fully takes on board how chess opening theory has changed in the computer era.

Prompted by computer investigations, today's players no longer expect to gain a large advantage as White by force, and few stick to a narrow repertoire. They seek lines that engines underestimate but will cause problems for human opponents, and modest lines with a drop of poison have become fashionable. Outlandish gambits and unusual pawn advances also appear at top level. Time-honoured openings have fallen by the wayside where computers have shown it is too easy to gain an advantage against them. The most space in this book is devoted to lines that are popular today and that deep computer analysis suggests have the brightest futures. Coverage includes openings more suitable for rapid chess and the kind of work readers need to do for each one. Martyn Kravtsiv is a grandmaster from Lviv, Ukraine, blitz champion of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games and a coach for the Ukrainian team that won silver at the 2016 Olympiad.