whiteshark: <Creative Chess Opening Preparation <by GM V. Eingorn>><How to seize the initiative and pose novel problems for the opponent>
Gambit publishing house, 2006 - 160 pages
<Blurb:>
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Grandmaster Eingorn is an opening trendsetter and pioneer. Throughout his career, he has introduced many new concepts in the openings, and some of the systems he has developed have gone on to become absolute main lines, such as the Rb1 Exchange Grünfeld. Here he explains his view of opening play, and how it is possible to refine existing systems and work out entirely new ideas from scratch.
The broad topics he discusses include:
Experiments in the Opening
Disturbing the Equilibrium
Strategic Planning
Opening Structures
He follows up by examining some notable trends in modern opening play, and with an analysis of a number of novel opening systems, including ones that he has championed himself. Eingorn takes us through the creative process, and the highs and Iows of the practical testing and refinement of the ideas. Throughout, the emphasis is on the procedures employed and the general lessons that can be learned.
Viacheslav Eingorn is an extremely experienced grandmaster from Ukraine. He played regularly and successfully in the Top League of the USSR Championship in the 1980s. He has represented Ukraine many times in team events and plays frequently in the German Bundesliga and open tournaments across Europe. He is the author of Decision-Making at the Chessboard.
<Contents:>
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004 Symbols
005 1 Experiments in the Opening
005 1.1 Transgressing the Rules
012 1.2 Goals and the Means of Attaining Them
022 1.3 The Battle of Ideas
030 2 Disturbing the Equilibrium
030 2.1 The Advantage of the First Move
039 2.2 Drastic Measures
048 2.3 Borderline Positions
056 3 Strategie Planning
056 3.1 Positional Assessment: A Dualism of Factors
065 3.2 General and Specific Reasoning
074 3.3 A Choice of Priorities
084 4 Opening Structures
084 4.1 A Problem of Our Own Choosing
091 4.2 Secondary Variations
102 4.3 Recurrent Opening Situations
113 5 The Modern Game of Chess
113 5.1 'Scientific' Opening Play: A School and its Crisis
120 5.2 The Opening as an Accurate Move Sequence
127 5.3 g4: A Symbol of Chess Progress
134 6 A Theoretical Kaleidoscope
134 6.1 Corrections to Theory
140 6.2 The Chess Designer
147 6.3 History of a Variation
157 Index of Players
159 Index of Openings