101 Chess Opening Surprises

by Graham Burgess

Un tesoro oculto de ideas infrecuentes que se dan en la fase inicial de la apertura para desorientar al adversario

Genres: Chess

Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Graham K. Burgess (1968) is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics. In 1994 he set a world record by playing 510 games of blitz chess (five minutes for each player) in three days, winning 431 games and drawing 25,

Burgess has written more than twenty books and edited more than 250. His book The Mammoth Book of Chess won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award in 1997. He is the editorial director of Gambit Publications.

Reviews

[Kian · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have the book, and in the introduction it says that the target audience is for amateurs, however this book fails to appeal to this crowd as after the introduction, each page is 50% algebraic notation with written explanations inelegantly transposing between the two. Additionally, where diagrams of the chess board are the best way for beginners to comprehend ideas, on the FIRST of 101 "surprise chess openings," the given digram of the chess board represents the specific opening (king's gambit) after NINE turns! How the fuck is an amateur supposed to follow along in this book when your first opening must be pictured by a chess player by going nine moves backwards?! Shocking.