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Imagine that the master has a bus to catch. He finishes up, he races out of the Club. He hardly even notices – he’s left his notebook behind! You pick it up quickly. The master will surely be back, and you want to keep all his work safe until he returns. But it wouldn’t hurt to take a peek inside, would it? The above scenario came to mind as I worked my way through International Master James Rizzitano’s Chess Explained The Queen’s Gambit Declined. It’s hardly a dramatization – unless you count picking up the book at the Chessville Bookstore, instead of off a table at the Chess Club. I’ve been impressed by Rizzitano’s work ethic before, with his 2004 Understanding Your Chess, also from Gambit. In his Chess Explained book he covers the major Queen’s Gambit Declined variations: Alatortsev Variation, Tarrasch Defence, Exchange and Blackburne Variations, Ragozin Defence and Vienna Variation, Semi-Tarrasch Defence, Cambridge Springs and Lasker Defences, Tartakower Defence and Classical Defence, using the standard Gambit format for the Chess Explained series:
If you wonder how he keeps all those games in his head or at his fingertips, check out the Bibliography, which contains over a score of books and a half-dozen periodicals or electronic sources. The answer for where he gets his explanations and new ideas is equally simple: the sweat of his own brow. Each annotated game is a serious (but understandable) lesson. Rizzitano’s Chess Explained The Queen’s Gambit Declined is not a QGD for Dummies introduction to 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6. Readers new to the QGD would do well to start with something like GM McDonald’s Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit Declined, reviewed recently at Chessville. If you’ve worked your way through that title, however, and wondered 'What comes next?', then IM Rizzitano has just what you’re looking for. By the way, if you read the review of Raetsky and Chetverik’s Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit Accepted, and preferred that line of defense (i.e. Accepting, rather than Declining), then I still have good news for you: Rizzitano’s How to Beat 1.d4 (2005) is a beefy second-stage book with a repertoire for Black based on 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 and dealing with other White attempts at move two as well. The fact is that ChessExplained The
Queen’s Gambit Declined is another excellent offering from the
International Master Rizzitano and Gambit (that the book’s layout is well
done is, of course, largely synonymous with “Gambit”) and one well worth
acquiring by advancing players. From the Publisher's website: Download a pdf file with a sample from the book. James Rizzitano is a strong
international master who dominated chess in the New England region during a
14-year period from 1976 to 1989 - he won 157 out of 336 events in which he
competed. His career highlights include victories over Alburt, Benjamin,
Benko, Christiansen, Dlugy, I.Gurevich, and Wolff. Rizzitano has recently
made a return to competitive chess, and has already written three successful
books for Gambit.
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