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That’s how I feel about Jeroen Bosch’s Secrets of Opening Surprises series. I have all of the volumes (except for #5 – how did I miss that one??). [Rick, here is the cover to #5, so you can see what you're missing. Don't mention it buddy! - Ed.] Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 9, is now out, and it contains 16 more openings from a dozen creative masters, all designed to give your opponents pause.
How soon would you like to perplex the other player? At move 2, Alexander Finkel suggests “Reti’s Line against the French”, 1.e4 e6 2.b3; and Arthur Kogan offers “Sicilian: the Czerniak Attack” 1.e4 c5 2.b3”. Seem a little precipitate? At move 3, Jeroen Bosch offers “Fianchetto in the French Tarrasch” 1. e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 b6; warns “This is not the Chigorin” with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e5; and tackles the shocking, apparent Fingerfehler in “Ruy Lopez: the Popov Variation” 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a5; while Alexander Finkel explores “A Scandinavian Motif in the Alapin” 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Nf6; Sergey Tiviakov has “Two Replies to 3.d4 in the Scandinavian” 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.d4 e5/Nc6” and Adrian Mikhalchishin touts “Dutch: Bogoljubow Gambit” 1.d4 f5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g4. For the hesitant who only want to throw caution to the winds at move 4, there are Igor Glek’s “The Dutch Indian” 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Bb4+; Vladimir Burmakin’s “Caro-Kann: Bellon Variation” 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 h6; and Dimitri Reinderman’s “English: Nimzowitsch Variation” 1.c5 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e4. Of course, for the belts-and-suspenders crowd, there are move 5 alternatives in Glenn Flear’s “Seeking Greener Pastures in the Grünfeld” 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Ne4 5.Nxe4; and Igor Lysyj’s “Queen’s Indian: the Surprising 5.Qb3” 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qb3; as well as Adrian Mikhalchishin’s (move 6) “A Bayonet Attack vs the King’s Indian” 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Bg7 5.Be2 0-0 6.g4; Dorian Rogozenco’s (move 7) “SOS versus the Sveshnikov” 1. e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Na3; and Daniel Stellwagen’s (move 8) “Two Knights: Another Gunsberg Surprise” 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Bd3. With a mixture of novelty, play-ability, and good clean fun
(as well as read-ability, pleasant layout and a minimum of errors, per usual
for New In Chess), Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 9 shows that
its status as 9th place in the lineup (to return to the baseball
card analogy at the beginning of this review) doesn’t mean it can’t hit hard
and score like its teammates. From the Publisher's website: A quick look at the SOS's in this issue, in PDF format Contents Other editions from the Secrets of Opening Surprises series reviewed here at Chessville: SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises by Jeroen Bosch, Reviewed by Jens Madsen Secrets of Opening Surprises Vol 4, Jeroen Bosch, Editor, reviewed by Rick Kennedy Secrets of Opening Surprises Volume 6 (New In Chess, 2007), reviewed by Rick Kennedy Secrets of Opening Surprises Vol 7 Edited by Jeroen Bosch (New in Chess, 2007) reviewed by Rick Kennedy Secrets of Opening Surprises Vol 8, Edited by Jeroen Bosch (New In Chess, 2008), reviewed by Rick Kennedy
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