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Grandmaster Repertoire Leningrad Dutch-The Dutch is renowned as a fighting weapon against 1.d4, as 1…f5 immediately sets up an unbalanced struggle. Then Black’s kingside fianchetto, which defines the Leningrad Dutch, allows pawn-storming play in similar style to the King’s Indian Defence. Mihail Marin is the ideal author to explain both the strategic ideas and the latest theory.

Grandmaster Repertoire Leningrad Dutch covers lines where White also fianchettoes the king’s bishop – these lines are the critical test of the Leningrad. The companion volume, Dutch Sidelines completes Black’s Dutch repertoire.

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Mihail Marin is a grandmaster from Romania. His previous books have established him as one of the world’s finest chess authors.

Mihail Marin Around the age of four I have learned to play chess from my father. Even though I never neglected my studies (I graduated from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute), I have since childhood aimed at dedicating my life to chess, a dream which I fortunately fulfilled. My first international success was qualifying for the Szirak Interzonal tournament in 1987, a performance I repeated in 1990, when the Interzonal took place in Manila. In 1988 I won the bronze medal on the third board at the Thessaloniki Olympiad (the first of a series of 12 Olympiads I took part in, the last one so far being Baku 2016).

Grandmaster Repertoire Leningrad Dutch

At national level I won the Romanian individual championship three times. In the beginning of the third millennium I became active as a chess writer and trainer. Three of my books received the Book of the year award.

Throughout the years my writings have been published in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Romanian and Mongolian. For many years I have been a helper for Judit Polgar and in 2005 I have accompanied her as a second to three elite tournaments, including the San Luis World championship. I feel fortunate to have been able to live in the unique chess world and am happy to share my experience with the readers.

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