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Reimagining 1.e4 Cunning, Crafty & Concise every chess player faces an opening dilemma: big main lines are complicated and time-consuming to learn, while easy-to-learn sidelines usually suffer from other defects. Finding the best of both worlds has been an impossible dream – until now!

Nikolaos Ntirlis

Reimagining 1.e4 offers the Holy Grail of a simple, easy-to-learn White repertoire, which packs a punch against all of Black’s main defences. In some lines, White unleashes a surprise as early as move 3. In others, White follows the known paths for a little longer, but only when there are big rewards to justify a modest effort.

Reimagining 1.e4 Cunning, Crafty & Concise

Nikolaos Ntirlis is a correspondence IM who has worked as an openings advisor for numerous GMs. His books for Quality Chess have established him as one of the world’s top authors on chess openings, with an ideal balance of theoretical correctness and practical effectiveness.

Reimagining 1.e4 is the title of this wonderful new book by our dear friend Nikos Ntirlis. The style and content of this book live up to the title in every way. Nikos has assembled an arsenal of opening ideas covering the full 1.e4 spectrum. Nothing in the book requires excessive memorization of variations. Many of the weapons carry great surprise value and lead to positions which are practically unpleasant for Black, even when the engine verdict ends up as 0.00.

Nikolaos Ntirlis

This book offers a 1.e4 repertoire against all major defences – but at 304 pages, it is not, and does not try to be, a complete guide against every move Black may try. GM Anish Giri was so impressed with Nikos’s ideas that he agreed to write a foreword. You can read it along with the rest of the excerpt Reimagining 1.e4

Reimagining 1.e4 Cunning, Crafty & Concise

Although Nikos’s superb work takes centre stage, I’m also proud of the fantastic team effort that took place. Kallia created a wonderful cover design and Jacob came up with a fresh internal aesthetic, redesigning chapter cover pages while keeping our signature style in other places, so it’s still unmistakeably a Quality Chess book. “Reimagining” was the theme throughout. Kostis edited maybe 75% and I edited the rest, in between other duties. Richard Palliser was a great asset with proofreading and other final checks. Well done team!

Reimagining 1.e4 Cunning, Crafty & Concise