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Take Dangerous Weapons: The Queen’s Gambit. Steadied by the information within its pages, playing either Black or White, you can calmly face your opponents. Across the board from you? Boom! International Master Richard Palliser is natural for the writing team of this book, with a number of 1.d-pawn books under his belt and having assisted in Dangerous Weapons collections on Anti-Sicilian attacks, Benoni & Benko Defenses, the Dutch, Flank Openings, the King's Indian Defense, the Nimzo-Indian Defense, the Pirc & Modern Defenses and the Sicilian Defense. He handles five chapters: Exciting Byways in the Main Line Slav: Part One Exciting Byways in the Main Line Slav: Part Two The Hodgson-Smallbone Variation Shocking the QGD The Anti-Vienna Gambit Grandmaster Glenn Flear has written on the Queen’s Gambit, the Slav, and the Semi-Slav in the past, and in this book comes up with some spicy ideas in his five chapters: Playing …b5 with Confidence Livening up the Exchange Variation: Part One Livening up the Exchange Variation: Part Two Tricking the Tarrasch Taking the Fun out of the Albin and the Chigorin Grandmaster Chris Ward has both written in the Dangerous Weapons series and on the Queen’s Gambit, and has some equally challenging ideas: Having Fun Against the …a6 Slav The a-pawn Cramp The a-pawn Abstention Going Long in the Moscow As in other titles in the series, according to the authors a “dangerous weapon” fits into one or more of four descriptions: 1) Moves that create complex, original positions full of razor-sharp tactics and rich positional ideas where creative, attacking play is rewarded; moves which are new, rare or very fresh, leaving plenty of scope for research 2) Moves that are highly ambitions; ones which aim for total domination 3) Moves that have been previously ignored, discarded or discredited by theory, perhaps unfairly so or maybe for the wrong reasons 4) Moves that are visually shocking; moves which seem to contradict the laws of the game Placed among the suggested lines in Dangerous Weapons: The Queen’s Gambit are familiar icons to indicate a dangerous weapon (cannon firing), to beware (lightening bolt), a risky line – roll the dice (tumbling dice), or a tricky transposition (open book).
Everyman Press’ production is very good, as usual: good use of fonts, space, bolding and diagrams (about two a page).
If you are familiar with the New In Chess Secrets of Opening Surprises
(S.O.S.) series edited by Jeroen Bosch, that will give you an idea of the
creativity and fun from Palliser, Flear and Ward.
If
you’ve moved past an introduction to the Queen’s Gambit (see
Three Queens and
Chess Explained: The Queen's Gambit Declined),
Dangerous Weapons: The Queen’s Gambit might just be your next step.
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