Attacking with g2-g4: The Modern Way to Get the Upper Hand in Chess

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Attacking with g2-g4: The Modern Way to Get the Upper Hand in Chess

The secret of its success may be its anti-positional look. The pawn thrust g2-g4 is often so counter-

intuitive that it’s a perfect way to confuse your opponents and disrupt their position. Ever since World

Champion Mikhail Botvinnik started using it to defeat the elite grandmasters of his day, it has developed,

on all levels of play, into an ever more popular and attractive way to fight for the initiative.

Grandmaster Dmitry Kryakvin owes a substantial part of his successes as a chess player to the g2-g4

attack. In this book he shows how it can be used to defeat Black in a number of important Closed and

Semi-Closed Defences and Flank Openings: the Dutch, the Queen’s Gambit, the Nimzo-Indian, the

King’s Indian, the Slav and several variations of the English Opening.