Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th-grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world--in alphabetical order!
The Origins series is an attempt at a "big picture" view that displays the interlocking parts of a much larger mechanism in time.
In this volume, the authors cover lines where Black does not meet 3 Bb5 with 3...a7a6, and vast portions of this volume, are devoted to Berlin Defense Closed lines and the Berlin Wall Ending.
Content:
004 Chapter 1: Bird's Defense
011 Chapter 2: The Old Steinitz Defense - 3...d6
021 Chapter 3: The Schliemann/Jaenisch Defense - 3...f5
037 Chapter 4: Classical Defense - 3...Bc5
050 Chapter 5: Steinitz Fianchetto Variation - 3...g6
061 Chapter 6: Cozio's Variation - 3...Nge7
066 Chapter 7: Berlin Defense, Closed Variations - 3...Nf6
104 Chapter 8: The Berlin Wall Ending
135 Chapter 9: Berlin Defense, Theory Dodges
150 Chapter 10: The Four Knights Spanish
163 Index of Complete Games
