More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps - Pandolfini

The opening is one of the most important parts of the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken. Attack wildly and haphazardly, and your pieces are picked off. Misuse your queen, and it's trapped. Carelessly neglect development, and your're mated. You've scarcely begun, and the game is over. This book offers drills and skills to help players of all levels avoid these perils and pitfalls.

Including over 200 traps and 200 zaps, More Chess Openings presents everyday errors in openings and their immediate refutations. With detailed instruction and his usual precise explanation, Pandolfini teaches the defenses necessary to ward off the toughest opponents. With Pandolfini's help, every chess player can have grand openings.

Author Bruce Pandolfini is a National Master in U.S. chess competition and the author of over a dozen chess instructionals in the Fireside Chess Library. His name and likeness were featured in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Specifications

• 255 Pages
• Paperback
• Publisher: Fireside
• Published: 1993
• Notation: Algebraic Notation