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| Posted by nwadvana uskidscompute.com 2/09/2003 13:27:28 Play online chess |  Subject: Opening - Game PlansMessage: There are a number of opensing which i enjoy playing, and i mostly obtain the theory of them from looking at master games online. When i liek an opening i usually go through about 10 or 20 master games in a hurry, checking out the game plans etc. I was wondering if there were any books, which deal with the latter. It would make it soo much easier, for me to understand and put into practice the type of setups that are needed, in the variations of a particular opening etc. I have Chris Ward's Improve your opening play as my only openings book, however the plans in there are much too simplistic, and just simple guides. The openings that i wanted to look up on were QGA, Grunfield Sicilian - Taimanov, Najdorf |
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