Petroff Defence

by Maxim Chetverik, Alexander Der Raetsky

Until a few years ago, the Petroff was opening that was favored by a few top Grandmasters, including Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov. However, the last few years have seen a dramatic rise in its popularity, and it now provides battlefields for many top clashes of the modern elite players, including Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Leko, Topalov, and England's Michael Adams. This is bound to have a positive effect on its popularity at club level.

In this book, openings experts Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik study the typical plans and tactics for both White and Black in this complex opening. Using illustrative games, the authors provide up-to-date coverage of a line that has experienced a major overhaul in the last decade.

Genres: Chess

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Fred Kohn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was adequate for a player of my level (1900). It was a bit light on some of the less played lines and I wished it had covered 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 a bit more in depth because I seem to face it a lot. But that may be just the luck of the draw.