1.e4! The Chess Bible-Volume 1-A Complete Repertoire for White

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1e4 The Chess Bible – Volume 1 – A Complete Repertoire for White “I believe that Black has a wider

margin of error in the closed games than in the open games. Even if they do not know all the details

of a certain line in the former case, they will end up with only a slight disadvantage in the majority of cases.

¡GM Justin Tan

1e4 The Chess Bible – Volume 1 – A Complete Repertoire for White  The same cannot be said about

the defenses to 1.e4. In this book you will find that Black must tread carefully if they play an offbeat

system, as I have discovered several refutations to the most popular and widely accepted lines within them.”

A Complete Repertoire for White

For every opening, I have adopted the same method of research. Firstly I undertake a detailed

examination of human games, alongside correspondence/email games, with particular regard to the

highest percentage of White wins and the number of games played.

 

The human games allowed me to gain a natural feelings for the practical elements of the opening in

question, while the correspondence games (essentially human-assisted engine games) covered the

necessary element of objectivity.

Volume 1

The next stage consisted of my own engine analysis, using the Chessbase Engine Cloud to examine

critical but unexplored positions. Finally, I engage as critically as possible with the existing literature,

as I hope others will do with my work in the future.

Structure

At the beginning of every chapter is an overview of the opening, which serves to give the reader some

basic foundations and highlights the general concepts, extracted from the analysis section. If the

reader is in need of a brief summary of a particular opening, I suggest you focus on the overviews.

¡GM Justin Tan

The analysis section contains the main body of work. The reader is not expected to memorize

everything by heart; in fact, that is probably not a productive exercise. When going through a

variation, it is best to stop at a point you think is appropriate, and that should always be the point at

which you find that you have fully understood the position.

The analysis section

Each subchapter ends with a model game, which gives the reader a simplified picture of the variation

at hand. Similar to the overview chapter, this section is largely illustrative.

 

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