Hendriks: The Philosopher and the Housewife (paperback) eboard In addition to concrete recommendations

In addition to concrete recommendations

f3 is that it throws the Grünfeld fans out of their main repertoire

d4 it offers White an easy-to-learn and reliable set of lines with interesting choices between strategic or more aggressive approaches

there are also studies

Focus on understanding opening positions and their underlying strategic ideas rather than memorizing variations

Hendriks: The Philosopher and the Housewife (paperback) eboard In addition to concrete recommendationsSchach verstehen lernen: Wie Tarrasch und Nimzowitsch das Denken im Spiel prgten Siegbert Tarrasch and Aron Nimzowitsch could be called the two vainest chess players in history. This book tells the fascinating story of their lifelong rivalry. They clashed as personalities, as players and as chess writers, both searching for the truth in chess, but with very different perspectives. Tarrasch is seen as the dogmatic theorist and, according to