SOS brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at fi rst sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable. An SOS deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six! That is why it is so easy to actually bring the variation on the board. You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory.

Contents:
1 Jeroen Bosch - The SOS Files
2 Daniel Stellwagen - Two Knights: Another Gunsberg Surprise
3 Adrian Mikhalchishin - A Bayonet Attack vs the King’s Indian
4 Jeroen Bosch - Fianchetto in the French Tarrasch
5 Dorian Rogozenco - SOS versus the Sveshnikov
6 Glenn Flear - Seeking Greener Pastures in the Grünfeld
7 Alexander Finkel - A Scandinavian Motif in the Alapin
8 Igor Glek - The Dutch Indian
9 Sergey Tiviakov - Two replies to 3.d4 in the Scandinavian
10 Jeroen Bosch - This is not the Chigorin
11 Vladimir Burmakin - Caro-Kann: Bellon Variation
12 Dimitri Reinderman - English: Nimzowitsch Variation
13 Alexander Finkel - Réti’s Line against the French
14 Adrian Mikhalchishin - Dutch: Bogoljubow Gambit
15 Jeroen Bosch - Ruy Lopez: the Popov Variation
16 Arthur Kogan - Sicilian: the Czerniak Attack
17 Igor Lysyj - Queen’s Indian: the Surprising 5.Qb3
Pub. 2008, softback, 143 pages. 
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The longest lasting and best single volume reference of them all is back in a brand new edition, the first in eight years. MCO 15 provides a complete coverage of the openings in a vertical columnar format with notes, game references and assessments for each line of play. Compiler GM Nick de Firmian has been assisted by GM John Fedorowicz, IM Justin Sarkar, IM Yuri Lapshun, John McArthur and, of course, computer analysis. De Firmian is a U.S. Champion and helped program supercomputer Deep Blue's opening book when it beat Gary Kasparov in 1997.
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This beginner's guide to opening traps contains over 200 traps in 40 different openings. Each is presented with explanation and diagrams. Although these traps are, mainly, quite basic they introduce the reader to some standard opening tactics and allow him/her to recognise repeating themes and tactical patterns. Bruce Alberston is a well known chess teacher based in New York.
Pub. 2007, softback, 231 pages. 


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222 annotated games, each beginning with 1.e4 and featuring an opening trap. The games are arranged according to opening with separate chapters for each major opening system e.g. French, Sicilian, Spanish, Caro-Kann and introductions outlining typical tactical motifs for each opening complex. You can use this book to learn and avoid traps or just to play through some sharp games of chess and improve your tactical skills. Both authors are German Grandmasters; Rainer Knaak is an openings expert and Karsten Muller has written extensively on endgames.
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Three years after the appearance of volume 1 the second book in the series continues in similar vein, advocating lesser known but very sharp opening systems. Here the authors focus on two opening systems, one for White and one for Black. For White they focus on the "Golden Spike" against the Modern Defence (1.e4,g6; 2.d4;Bg7; 3.Nc3,d6; 4.g4). They also reprint the "Spike - Anti-Pirc" chapter from volume one thus including a complete "Spike" repertoire for White against the Pirc/Modern in one book. A brief chapter covers the "Krazy Kat Variation" against the Modern. (1.e4,g6; 2.d4,Bg7; 3.Na3) For Black they examine the "Chaos Counter-Attack" (1.d4,g6; 2.c4,Bg7; 3.Nc3,c5; 4.d5,Bxc3+; 5.bxc3,f5;) and the "Accelerated Chaos Counter-Attack" (1.d4,c5; 2.d5,f5;). Analysis is largely languageless with game fragments quoted to support the authors' own ideas. The ideas in the book seem to stem mostly from Vladimir Okhotnik, a Ukrainian I.M. and chess coach. Co-author, Croatian GM Bogdan Lalic, is now settled in England and is a noted theoretician and author of several books.
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Russian Grandmaster Kalinichenko offers a repertoire for both White and Black based around 1.e4 for White and the Sicilian Dragon and Leningrad Dutch Defences for Black. For White he recommends the Sicilian Grand Prix Attack, Vienna Game and lines against the French, Caro-Kann and Alekhine Defences. For Black the main repertoire counters 1.e4 and 1.d4 but he also suggests responses to the English, Bird's and other Flank Openings.
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Russian Grandmaster Kalinichenko offers a repertoire for both White and Black based around 1.e4 for White and the Classical Sicilian and King's Indian Defences for Black. For White he recommends the c3 Sicilian, Scotch Game and lines against the French, Caro-Kann and Alekhine Defences. For Black the main repertoire counters 1.e4 and 1.d4 but he also suggests responses to the English, Bird's and other Flank Openings.
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