Grandmaster Repertoire 19 – Beating Minor Openings

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Grandmaster Repertoire 19 – Beating Minor Openings offers a world-class repertoire for

Black against every sensible first move apart from 1.d4 and 1.e4. GM Victor Mikhalevski advocates an

ambitious approach for Black, with the aim of occupying the centre and fighting for an advantage,

rather than mere equality, wherever possible.

Beating Minor Openings

The most critical moves covered are 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. Against the latter, Mikhalevski supplies a range

of replies to allow for transpositions to most queen’s pawn openings. In a review of Mikhalevski’s

previous book for Quality Chess, IM John Cox commented: “Given the goal the book has set itself, I

don’t believe the job could have been done better.”

Grandmaster Repertoire 19

Victor Mikhalevski is the reigning Israeli Champion and is renowned as a leading theoretician.

Mikhalevski was born in Gomel, Belarus. He played for Israel as second reserve (+4 –1 =2) in

the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin 2006 and at third board (+1 -1 =4) in the 17th European Team

Championship at Novi Sad 2009.

He won the Calvià Open in Majorca, Spain in October 2007, winning in each of the first seven rounds

to finish with a score of 8/9 for a performance of 2876. Kevin Spraggett was second at 7/9. He also

won a category 12 invitational tournament at Montreal in 2005 with 8/11 (+5 -0 =6) and tied for first

at the 2008 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Montreal, with 6/9. He also was Israeli Vice-

Champion in 1998 and tied for first in 1996 in Jerusalem and in 2008 in Haifa.

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