Shaun Taulbut

Understanding the Spanish

S. Jones

Chess Exchanges

Raymond D. Keene

Nimzo-Indian Defence is an ideal fighting defence to 1 d4. Black immediately seeks to create pawn weaknesses in his opponent's position in order to exploit these in the middlegame and endgame. In the resulting positions, both sides have clear strategic objectives and the result is decided by the skills of the two players in realizing these objectives.

How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence

How to Play the Nimzo-Indian

Raymond Keene

Primary Level

How to Play the Caro-Kann Defense

An Introduction to Chess

French Defence, Tarrasch Variation

The Tarrasch variation of the French defence is one of White's most popular choices, and a particular favourite of former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Here, all lines after 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nd2 are analyzed and illustrative games are used to explain the strategic ideas for both sides.

Tarrasch Variation

French Defence

Ron Harman

Winning with the Scandinavian

Peter Bagley

How to Play the French Defence

This book provides a clear explanation of the fundamental strategical ideas and major variations of a popular and reliable chess opening and is a concise introduction for the aspiring club and tournament player.

How to Play the Caro-Kann Defence

The French Defence is an ideal opening for the club chess player, the strategic plan of attacking the black centre being common to many lines. The author of this book concentrates on explaining the plans for both sides, with illustrative games throughout, and has thoroughly researched all available material. Typical themes such as black's bad bishop, blocked centre and kingside attacks are regularly highlighted. The author of this book is a former European Junior Champion and is now an International Master.

The New Bogo-Indian

A companion volume to Winning with the Nimzo, this book is the first part of a full explanation of one of the most important defences to the Queen's pawn in contemporary chess. It has been a favourite of Fischer, Kasparov, Karpov, Petrosian and Botvinnik, to name but a few of the greats who have employed it. This book - unlike many rivals - concentrates on full games with notes explaining strategies that will never go out of fashion.

Author Shaun Taulbut takes the teachings of Nimzowitsch a little further, to show how the sound building up of your game along logical principles will eventually lead to an overwhelming concentration of force in the critical area. If you have already read My System or Chess Praxis then this is the book for you.

Shaun Taulbut

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