Standalone well, just nothing groundbreaking new

The hitherto applied to three volumes series "Dangerous Weapons" (Sicilian, Nimzo-Indian and French) presents "rare but underestimated" variants of the respective opening, which will of course bring the reader to one or another full point. Deciding how the Abspiele are really dangerous, I would like to leave it up - interesting one or the other proposal is, however, on any case!

Chapter 1 begins with a variant against the dragon and is titled titled "Taking a break from Refuting the Dragon". After one

To seek refutation of the dragon, can not be only for the amateur to a sweaty affair, and so I think that this chapter will interest many Catching with 2 Sf3 repertoire. This is followed by all kinds of rare and other then not so rare Abspiele. It also profiles variants for Black. For example, the O'Kelly- and Lowenthal variant, both compared to Najdorf or Sveshnikov certainly very scarce on GM-level. But maybe they really deserve a greater attention? Anyway, speaking of a rare white defeats Kramnik just against Lowenthal variant for it!

If I remember correctly, all begin featured "weapons" after the moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 and be continued by Weiss exception with 3. d4. So you will not find Anti-Sicilians as Alapin's 2. c3 or Rossolimo- variant, where the authors certainly still could have found it.

Seen together, the "Weapons" discussed at some length, leading to the fortunately relatively large size of the book at a good price

has led. Perhaps one or the other readers will want it

were a few variants have been more with less analysis ?! A rather

matt aftertaste leaves the fact that only the popular

"SOS - Secrets of Openings Surprises" series from the New in Chess-Verlag

was imitated and exaggerated large. The play with 6. Df3 against

Najdorf was even taken from there without further ado - or one should boldly

say "stolen"?

Independent but a pretty good book, the content as well as in terms of price / circumference ratio. One should just not expect anything groundbreaking new.