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It won't cover the Winawer, the Classical, or the Burn. So this wouldn't do much good to study from the White side. The games selected tend to be games where Black won. Generic opening books that cover openings at the 10, foot level. This is what the Starting Out books are. The Caro-Kann" by Joe Gallagher, covers all the lines with complete games, and is objective, but you might get 2 to 4 games of Classical with Bf5, 2 to 4 games of Classical with Nd7, 3 or 4 games of each of the two main Advanced Variation lines, etc. You get a very "basic" understanding of the opening with the general themes, but comes nowhere close to showing all of White's options at move 9, or all of Black's options at move 11, etc.

Have you tried Cyrus Lakdawala's books? The Move By Move series. These are quite deep and give whole games, and also quite wordy. Pity you're not a diamond member. We have access to some wonderful multipart videos on major openings that sounds like what you're looking for. IM Tatev Abrahamyan has a series on the French: Not what you asked, I know.. So I do have one recommendation. Evgeny Sveshnikov's The Complete c3 Sicilian.

But of course only if you actually play the c3 and you might as well pick up something on the French Advance as well since you often transpose against good players. It's actualy too much for me right now. Nothing wrong with the book, it's just that at my level folks either haven't a clue and the game gets wild and crazy or black goes French so my time is better spent elsewhere.

Anyway, sounds like a nice problem to have; the whole narrowing in on specific openings in some depth. Have read lots of good things about the Everyman series. Yes he's the author I was thinking of for a Ruy Lopez book and not just Marin! It's a great book, though I recently completed the Queen Volume of CCE so I may not want to give the opponent a queen trade option so early. I studied the other endgame types too, but nearly everyone studies rook endgames and many minor piece endings are easy enough to figure out OTB though obviously there are exceptions here.

I'm keeping the Berlin Wall in my repertoire, just have to decide openings with the endgame in mind.

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After sharp tactical complications or quiet maneuvering pieces will eventually come off. There are instructional opening videos out there, but I need something I can sit down with at a physical board. Shaw's King's Gambit book is great from what I hear. The idea isn't necessarily to know an opening for its own sake but also carry over some of its ideas. I don't play the c3 Sicilian but may come in handy as black, unless he just goes over plans for white.

He doesn't have to share everything since that would be information their opponents could use, but just ideas and themes with analysis where necessary.

If they're violating principles then you could break the balance by also violating some. One could violate a principle of king safety in certain Sicilian lines with g4! If his play is sound then other principles are coming to the forefront. Lipnitzsky talks about how some moves that seemingly violate principles actually follow others.

He'd show games with a few queen moves that centralize in an opening to prevent Basically an opening book that's more than a typical opening book. Quality Chess has some good ones especially by Marin and I ask because I want to really understand the pawn structures, piece placements, and endgames typical of my repertoire much more deeply after looking at countless middle and endgame books and some database games.

And helps memorize moves for the right reason, not simply be a trained money who can repeat analysis. I am finding lately the Chess Stars series from Bulgaria is the best set of books. Oogie it is good to see you asking questions. And I would never want you to be a "trained money. Yeah the k didn't register when I tried typing monkey I use a wireless keyboard. K is home row so it's especially bad. I usually catch when it doesn't register and sometimes when I type the text will appear some seconds afterwards.

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I've heard Chess Stars has great stuff but can't find a sample page anywhere. John Watsons "Secrets of modern chess openings" series. Its true when I say I improved rating points after finishing those books. Now I am at Elo Level. I can't find any books by Watson with that title. Are you sure you have the title and author correct? I'm sorry, its called Mastering the chess openings by John Watson.

I only have the German Version and translated it into english. Really good books, all 4 volumes.

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I played quite a number of games as black on here and got some good results after I switched a few opening move orders around. I struggle as black more than white, so I was really happy with the OTB experiences I had with the openings in this book. I reviewed it on my chess blog as well. I don't want to appear spammy, so I won't post the link here, but if you want to read my review the link is in my profile.

Most opening chess books suck. But most reviews are favorable. They get you to buy the book, only to waste your money. I've since decided to waste my money collecting the really awful opening books. At least that way I get a laugh out of it, which is better than nothing, haha! You have to "Look Inside" to see how awful it is, haha! However, most people seem to love it.

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