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Author name: Richard Palliser

: Beating Unusual Chess Openings: Dealing With the English, Reti, King's Indian Attack and Other Annoying Systems (Everyman Chess)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN num: 9781857444292
ISBN number: 1857444299
Label: Everyman Chess
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: February 01, 2007
Publishing house: Everyman Chess
Sale Popularity Level: 223623
Studio: Everyman Chess



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You may be happy with your main openings – sorted with the Sicilian and content with the King’s Indian – but are you afraid of the unknown? Do you fall to pieces if your opponent plays something strange in the opening? Here’s some good news... Beating Unusual Chess Openings is a godsend to those chess players fed up with struggling against all opening moves other than White’s main two: 1 e4 and 1 d4. From the respectable (English Opening, Réti and King’s Indian Attack) through to the offbeat (Nimzo-Larsen Attack, Bird’s Opening) and the totally bizarre (Orang-utan, Grob); everything Black needs to know about facing unusual openings is covered within these pages. Richard Palliser gets to grips with all of White’s possibilities, examining their strengths and weaknesses and in turn organizing a reliable and practical repertoire for Black. He discusses the key strategies, tactics and move-order tricks for both sides, arming the reader with enough know-how to face this assortment of chess openings with renewed confidence.

*Everything you need to know about facing unusual openings
*Written by an openings expert
*Ideal for improvers, and club and tournament players





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User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Confidence against "unusual" openings.
First of all, Palliser is a good writer who clearly takes his job seriously. This book is well-researched and basically fantastic.

The lines he recommends tend to be logical and precise. He doesn't offer a lot of speculative or "double-edged" responses, but often goes with the theoretical main line. This means this book will also be of value to those people who play "unusual" openings as white, since few strong authors produce books on these openings.

It's also worth noting that these openings (such as the King's Indian Attack) are very unusual for professional players but are actually rather common for lower-level club players (i.e. most of us). These lines are not at all obscure for the average player and this book is an excellent resource to prepare you to face such things with confidence.

Most important, however, is his cover of the English Opening (1.c4) which takes up about half of the book. In brief, his recommended defense has now become my personal choice, thanks to his lucid explanations and convincing analysis. In fact, I often play 1.c4 myself as white and I'm very glad I got this book since it helps me prepare to face it from the other side of the board. I honestly think it would be worth the price of the book just for this coverage alone.

But Palliser also presents several different defensive setups against 1.Nf3; depending on what the rest of your repertoire looks like (i.e 1...c5 would allow 2.e4!? and a Sicilian Defense). This is particularly valuable since many strong white players (i.e. master and above) have started using 1.Nf3 more often thanks to Khalifman's series on Kramnik.

Finally, I also like having one source for the theory on openings like 1.g4, 1.b3 and 1.f4 since (as I said) few quality writers discuss such lines and yet you really NEED to be prepared to face such things. Often a writer will dismiss these lines are inferior and doesn't treat them objectively or thoroughly. This can lead to disaster since more white players use these systems quite a lot and often have a substantial "home field advantage" in these lines. Other writer try to sell such openings for white, in which case they tend to gloss over the most critical defenses and instead focus on brilliant wins for white against weaker opposition. You can't really blame them for publishing 'propaganda' for these openings since, hey...they got to sell the book somehow!

In a nutshell, this book is very impressive and is clearly one of the best opening books for black. I'd recommend John Cox's book on d4 Deviations to help you against 1.d4, I can recommend Marin's book on Beating the Open Game to help against 1.e5, and finally this book against basically everything else. I only hope my opponent's DON'T buy it.




Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Another Winner
I have come to admire Richard Palliser's writing incredibly. I was very first introduced to his writing when I picked up his book Tango! A Complete Defence to 1.d4 and was blown away the clarity of his explanations while simultameously giving fresh original analyses. And this is what this book does! The reason white plays The Bird, Grob, Nimzo-Larsen, or English is to take grey off his familiar territory and take him into a game in which he has a better understanding of the positions. Well the lines against the system actually do that to white! They are completely original and unsuspecting and perfectly sound and playable to secure that win you need in the last round of a tournament. All in all, a good study of this book and it is you that is going to be giving the problems to white. An excellent book to complete one's repertoire. Very clearly analyzed and the explanations are brilliant. I would also SERIOUSLY consider Tango! A Complete Defence to 1.d4 as I have been crushing 1.d4 players because of it- seriously no joke. I've always found 1.d4 incredibly annoying to play against and I've tried every defence known to man. That is until I found Tango! Now hardly anyone plays 1.d4 against me now as the no the fate that awaits them from previous tournaments. I look foward from more writing of Richard Palliser.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent coverage for Black of all non e4 and d4 White openings
As most people should be aware Richard Palliser writes excellent chess books and this book is no exception. He covers all possible Black defences to all non-e4 and non-d4 openings. Three openings are covered in particular detail, as you might expect the English, Reti and Kings Indian Attack. In general, as Palliser states he concentrates on fairly solid lines for Black e.g. Symmetrical English. In most lines he does also include a secondary option to try and get White away from the types of positions he would be familar with. Pallisers coverage is to the usual high standard. For example, as he is aware that many English players use Kosten's excellent "Dynamic English" book, the lines Kosten recommends are examined in great detail. Similarly for the recent book on the Reti by Davies. Also, part of the problem for Black with the English/Reti openings are the many transpositional possibilities that arise. Palliser does a great job dealing with this. With the Reti he gives coverage for the three major grey replies 1...c5, 1...d5 and 1...Nf6 carefully noting transpositions between the three and the symmetrical English. There is a lot of detailed analysis in this book but I still think Palliser has enough explaination of the typical plans and ideas in each line.
Under the "annoying" systems Birds, Nimzo-Larsen, Sokolsky, Grob, 1g3 and 1Nc3 are all given substantial coverage with both a solid line and a more tricky variation. Each chapter is excellent, giving you a detailed understanding of the opening. The 1Nc3 chapter is particularly interesting considering how new this system is. Again, any recent books on these openings have been checked by Palliser. In conclusion I would recommend this book to club/tournment players (with rating 1600 - 2000) to fill an important gap in your Black repertoire.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Against 1.c4
I think that book is very good, especially lines with 1.c4 c5 and grey answer on 1.b3. It is the light to go forward through dark english woods.


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