There are no speculative gambits here, just plenty of healthy aggression and new ideas. Because so many of Collins’s recommendations lead to familiar structures, ideas can easily be transplanted from one opening to another. He gives illustrative games that emphasize the key themes, including White’s many opportunities to forcibly weaken and attack the black king.
The specific analysis is up-to-the-minute and features ideas that have proven their worth in grandmaster practice. Throughout there is attention to move-order subtleties, with clever nuances in ‘sidelines’ that your opponents are unlikely to have examined in detail.
Contents:
006 Introduction
008 1. Introducing the IQP
022 2. 1 e4 e5
056 3. c3 Sicilian
108 4. Caro-Kann
115 5. French
134 6. Pirc/Modern
141 7. Scandinavian
150 8. Alekhine
158 Index of Variations
