Zuke 'em-the Colle Zukertort Revolutionized: A Chess Opening System for Everyone, Now Bullet-proofed With New Ideas

by David I. Rudel

For decades, the chess world has run down the reputation of the Colle-Zukertort (a.k.a. The Rubinstein Attack) as an unassuming opening, claiming it did not exact the full measure of pain from Black in the quest to equalize. If such is the case, why do strong players (as Black) avoid the Zukertort? Instead they opt to play any of several pet defenses rather than deal with the constriction and onslaught of the main line. In Zuke 'Em: The Colle-System Revolutionzed, Rudel explains the basics of the Zukertort and then provided plenty of new ideas to address these various pet defenses that cowardly opponents may choose. In this book you will also find: 1.Introductory chapters for those who would not know the Zukertort from a Lemon Torte. 2.Analysis in real English from the perspective of someone who has played the opening exclusively for over a decade. 3.A barrage of never-before-published answers and extensive commentary on common lines. 4.A training section to help you retain and test your understanding of the opening.

Genres: Chess

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2008

Reviews

[globulon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended by Manny. My first purchase due to a goodreads rec. and my first ever book devoted solely to a single chess opening.

I think I will be reading this slowly for a while. I just feel like taking it off the currently reading shelf. I have been playing mostly on schemingmind.com which is a correspondance site, so I have time (and am allowed) to look up the moves and variations as I play. It will take me a while to get used to this opening to the degree that I have the important mainlines down pat. On the other hand, so far I am pretty pleased with it. When I have a question or something crops up that deviates from a given analysis I have been able to find him considering this option somewhere. Some of the material is a little beyond my level, as far as taking the positions into the middle game and understanding the advantages this opening is supposed to grant, particularly Rudel's new replies, but overall very helpful.

[Daahoud Asante · Rating 5 out of 5]

1.d4 is my go to opening, the colle is a great opening, the zukertort is my favorite variation, it has a solid plan and a fun aggressive attack of blacks kinside, this opening does not go overboard into theory, so its easy to remember most deviations from the main line for white.....try it out, it might be for you.