Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2008
Edition: Paperback medium Pages: 272 Language: English
Are you tired of playing the same old openings time and time again? Perhaps it's time for a change, but you cannot decide between the numerous options available? Here's the answer: choose Dangerous Weapons and amaze your opponents with new and exciting opening ideas!
In this book, four renowned opening experts get together to take a revolutionary look at the Benoni, the Benko and all their associated variations. Instead of travelling down well-trodden and analysed paths, they concentrate on fresh or little-explored variations, selecting a wealth of 'dangerous' options for both colours. Whether playing White or Black, a study of this book will leave you confident and fully-armed, and your opponents running for cover!
Contents: (Benoni) - 7.Qa4+ - Sosonko-Kramnik Gambit in the 'Catalan-Benoni' (6.e4) - Radjabov's Extended Queenside Fianchetto (10...b6 against g3 system) - 10... Nf6-h5 in the Modern Classical - Epishin's Deadly 8.Qe2 - 7.Bd3 and 8.h4 - Killing the Snake (7.g4) - Super Extended Fianchetto (6.g3 and 7.h4) - Blumenfeld Accepted (4...b5 5.dxe6) (Benko) - Paradoxical Bishop Retreat (11...Bc8 in Main Line) - Tromping the Benko (4.Bg5) - Central Control (5.e3) - Dark-Square Magic (5.f3 e6 6.e4 c4) - Pseudo-Blumenfeld Gambit (2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 b5!?)
Dangerous Weapons is a series of opening books which supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her opening repertoire. Many of the carefully chosen weapons are innovative, visually shocking, incredibly tricky, or have been unfairly discarded; they are guaranteed to throw even your most experienced opponent off balance.
