• Szybka wysyłka

  • Wiele promocji

Polecane

The Modernized Modern Defense

The Modernized Modern Defense - Daniel Fernandez (K-5882)

Opinia
137,00 zł
Brutto

Playing the Modern Defense with any regularity is a sign that you truly love chess. From the very first move, you are indicating to your opponent (and to the jury deciding on the brilliancy prizes!) that you would like to play an unbalanced position. Then the thrill of the fight courses through your veins and you simply must trust yourself to handle developments better than the other player. For a very long time this truly was the absolute frontier, the Wild West of opening theory: if it went well you looked like a genius, if it goes badly you got mated in 20 moves, and most likely neither of you ever really made the analysis which you so badly needed to remember at the board.

A certain air of reckless abandon, of pure devil-may-care mischief, was needed to play it successfully, and to some extent still is. Something of this passion was conveyed into printed form by Swedish GM Tiger Hillarp Persson when he wrote his Tiger’s Modern. Even within the Modern, the crème de-la-crème of the opening, when I learned it from his book almost a decade ago was the famous Hippo setup, the epitome of the adventurer’s spirit.

While White goes about stationing his pieces aggressively, controls the centre, etc., Black nonchalantly places nearly all his pawns on the third rank and shuffles his pieces behind them! For some reason this appealed to the 15-year-old me: the idea that I could take the game to my opponent in a way that I chose, rather than by preparing endlessly for some subtlety on move 27 of the Poisoned Pawn Najdorf.

Throughout the year 2010 I played the Modern almost exclusively; it filled the gap between my 1 ... e5 phase and my 1 ... c6 phase. (The latter remained my main reply to 1.e4 until I began learning the Najdorf in 2018, but I do still enjoy regularly mixing it up with the Modern; there are more than 20 references to my own games in the text.) What might surprise you is that 2010 was the year in which my chess career started progressing by leaps and bounds! I became an IM relying very heavily on it; an example from one of my norm tournaments can be seen in Part I (Lahiri-Fernandez.) I embraced the complexity, the audacity and the novelty whole-heartedly, and it embraced me back.

1 produkty
Ilość:

help_outlineZapytaj o produkt
The Modernized Modern Defense - Daniel Fernandez (K-5882)

The Modernized Modern Defense - Daniel Fernandez (K-5882)

Playing the Modern Defense with any regularity is a sign that you truly love chess. From the very first move, you are indicating to your opponent (and to the jury deciding on the brilliancy prizes!) that you would like to play an unbalanced position. Then the thrill of the fight courses through your veins and you simply must trust yourself to handle developments better than the other player. For a very long time this truly was the absolute frontier, the Wild West of opening theory: if it went well you looked like a genius, if it goes badly you got mated in 20 moves, and most likely neither of you ever really made the analysis which you so badly needed to remember at the board.

A certain air of reckless abandon, of pure devil-may-care mischief, was needed to play it successfully, and to some extent still is. Something of this passion was conveyed into printed form by Swedish GM Tiger Hillarp Persson when he wrote his Tiger’s Modern. Even within the Modern, the crème de-la-crème of the opening, when I learned it from his book almost a decade ago was the famous Hippo setup, the epitome of the adventurer’s spirit.

While White goes about stationing his pieces aggressively, controls the centre, etc., Black nonchalantly places nearly all his pawns on the third rank and shuffles his pieces behind them! For some reason this appealed to the 15-year-old me: the idea that I could take the game to my opponent in a way that I chose, rather than by preparing endlessly for some subtlety on move 27 of the Poisoned Pawn Najdorf.

Throughout the year 2010 I played the Modern almost exclusively; it filled the gap between my 1 ... e5 phase and my 1 ... c6 phase. (The latter remained my main reply to 1.e4 until I began learning the Najdorf in 2018, but I do still enjoy regularly mixing it up with the Modern; there are more than 20 references to my own games in the text.) What might surprise you is that 2010 was the year in which my chess career started progressing by leaps and bounds! I became an IM relying very heavily on it; an example from one of my norm tournaments can be seen in Part I (Lahiri-Fernandez.) I embraced the complexity, the audacity and the novelty whole-heartedly, and it embraced me back.

Akceptuję zasady polityki prywatności  

tag_faces 137 punktów w Programie Lojalnościowym
 

Gwarancja zwrotu pieniędzy

 

Bezpieczne i szybkie dostawy

 

Bezpieczeństwo transakcji dzięki certyfikatowi SSL

Times are changing (as even the Wild West at some point became industrialized) and theory has developed on everything. It has therefore become possible, inter alia, to try and write a rigorous opening manual on the Modern. What I mean is not that equality has been found and this should be your exclusive opening choice for all time to come (I would be lying to you if I said that) but rather that there is now a roadmap as to how you should study this opening. About time, given the number of 1.e4 repertoires that have been written and which contain anti-Modern recommendations (usually in the ‘Other’ or ‘Miscellaneous’ section towards the back!) that nobody has taken the time to combat rigorously.

Furthermore, there has been a sea change in the ethos of Modern players (and also Pirc players): we no longer wish to get something totally new, or redefine the concept of development in Hippo style, but usually these days we want to get a Sicilian structure! That is to say, a position where Black gets to play ... cxd4 (or have White play dxc5) and thereby obtains a central majority that will stand him in good stead for the long term. That has now become the intellectual gold standard, a trend that has progressed in tandem with the inclusion of this opening in more players’ repertoires and its slow shift in towards the mainstream from the fringes of what is acceptable.

As artisans (for we must never forget our roots) on this moving fringe, it is important to have your bearings. Nowadays (and however much you feel like playing it freehand) if you want to include the Modern in your repertoire you should do some study. You should know, for instance, where White can get a safe plus (in my opinion, just chapter III.2), where White can get a less-safe plus (chapter IV.4), and where there are routes to equality, dynamic or otherwise (essentially the rest of the book!)

SPIS TREŚCI:

004 Key to Symbols & Bibliography

007 Introduction to the Modernized Modern

013 PART I - Illustrative games

PART II - Pirc Transpositions

043 Chapter 1 - System with 4.Be3

071 Chapter 2 - Austrian Pirc without 6.Bb5+

095 Chapter 3 - Austrian Pirc with Bxd7

117 Chapter 4 - Austrian Pirc with 8.e6

135 Chapter 5 - Classical Pirc with 7.Bf4 and 7.Bg5

159 Chapter 6 - Classical Pirc Other 7th moves

PART III - Systems Chess

179 Chapter 1 - The 4.Bc4 Variation

199 Chapter 2 - Other bishop-move systems

219 Chapter 3 - Systems with a preventative 5.a4

237 Chapter 4 - Systems with 3.c4 or 4.c4

257 Chapter 5 - Systems Chess links for Black

PART IV - Theoretical Pure Moderns

279 Chapter 1 - Four Piece Systems

301 Chapter 2 - Austrian Modern without the early Be3

325 Chapter 3 - 150 Attack without 6.f3

355 Chapter 4 - 150 Attack with 6.f3

K-5882

Opis

Wydawnictwo:
Thinkers Publishing
Rok wydania:
2020
Autor:
Fernandez Daniel
Język wydania:
Angielski
Ilość stron:
376
Rodzaj oprawy:
Miękka
Wymiary książki:
170 x 235 mm
Waga:
690 g
ISBN:
9789492510884

Szczegóły produktu

Przejrzeć

16 produkt(ów) w tej kategorii