Winning with the Dutch Tapa blanda - 1990

Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Collier Books - Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. First Collier Books Edition First Printi . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 185 Pages. Some light age tanning to top page edges and the tops of many pages. Welcome to the very special world of the Dutch Defence! This most versatile of defences to 1 d4 boasts several positive features: it is forcing (White cannot prevent you playing your defence, as is the case with, say, the Nimzo-Indian); it rules out radical strategic simplification (as occurs, for example, in the Queen's Gambit Declined when White plays the Exchange Variation); and it does not permit early major material simplification (which happens in standard lines of the popular King's Indian and Grunfeld Defences). So how on earth is it that even now the Dutch Defence is something of a secret? The reason has its origin in the nineteenth century, when the massively influential world champion Wilhelm Steinitz (the founder of modern chess) dogmatically dismissed the Dutch… Leer más

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