Creative Chess Opening Preparation
By Viacheslav Eingorn
Viacheslav Eingorn is an extremely experienced grandmaster from Ukraine. He played regularly and successfully in the Top League of the USSR Championship in the 1980s. He has represented Ukraine many times in team events and plays frequently in the German Bundesliga and open tournaments across Europe.
Grandmaster Eingorn is an chess opening trendsetter. Throughout his career, he has introduced many novel concepts in the openings, and some of the systems he has introduced have gone on to become absolute main lines, such as the Rb1 Exchange Grunfeld. Here he explains his view of opening play, and how it is possible to refine existing systems and work out entirely new ideas from scratch.
The broad topics he discusses include:
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Experiments in the Opening
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Disturbing the Equilibrium
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Strategic Planning
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Opening Formations
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The Modern Game of Chess
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A Theoretical Kaleidoscope
He follows up by examining some notable trends in modern opening play, and with an analysis of a number of novel opening systems, including ones that he has championed himself. Eingorn takes us through the creative process, and the highs and lows of the practical testing and refinement of the ideas. Throughout, the emphasis is on the procedures employed and the general lessons that can be learned.
Throughout this book the reader will learn when "breaking the openings rules" works, when it doesn't, how to create problems for the opponent, how to choose between priorities and much more. The underlying theme in the book is how to creatively play the opening stages, but not only how to play more creatively, but also how to play it better!
This book is especially good in this day, when so many people rely on memorizing hundreds of book moves without any idea why those moves are played. Here players can learn the ideas behind the moves and how to correctly approach the opening. This book contains a wealth of information, and I would greatly encourage anyone wanting to improve their opening, to get this book!
NSG rating = 9.6 of 10