Beating 1e4 e5: A repertoire for White in the Open Games John Emms
Publisher: Everyman Chess

After dealing with the Carlsbad Structure, the Capablanca Structure, the Open Games, he comes to the highly popular French Advance Structure, which is characterized by the pawn chain d4-e5 for White and e6-d5 for His first Chessbase DVD , “1.e4 repertoire – Grandmaster Lines Explained for Club Players” was well received by players and reveiwers alike. At least that is what theory However I find it very interesting that two outstanding repertoire books, namely Marin's Beating the Open Games and Davies' Play 1 e4 e5! As just about everyone knows, Bronstein played the King's Gambit against high level competition and had good success with it, even though it is no longer regarded as a strong opening try for White. As many readers know, I have been a long-time advocate of the Bird Variation of the Ruy Lopez for Black (1. That would be Emms' older "Play the Open Games as Black". File name: Beating 1e4 e5 - A repertoire for White in the Open Games [Everyman 2010] - John Emms.7z. The book under discussion here is "Beating 1.e4 e5", published this year, a repertoire for White built around the slow Italian with d3 and c3. Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dcc2d1pbqydvg4o. Instead our subsequent games (when he had White) went 1. Playing these lines as White on occasion can help you understand them better. So it wasn't until last month's Western States Open that I got to play an authentic Bird's Opening against IM Ed Formanek. Meanwhile, Borislav Ivanov continued to beat everyone who dared to sit at the same table with him. He beat me in very instructive fashion, and in the process gave me some idea how White can get into trouble. It is also so solid that it will give your opponents nightmares trying to beat you. I have never seen anyone suggest such a system (though Andrew Martin's "Repertoire 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 This should be at the core of any Open Game repertoire for Black. Grandmaster John Emms presents a repertoire for White after 1 e4 e5 , based on the Italian Game and the Bishop's Opening. Recommend declining the gambit with 1 e4 e5 2 f4 Bc5. E4 e5, and he almost always won.