Descripción

The Center Game a Perfectly Playable Chess Opening Surprise is a wonderful opening for club players. White starts with a center push, develops quickly, looks for opposite castling, and launches an attack. The setup will feel very familiar to you in no time. And the chess engines show that this opening is both sound and correct, and at least as good as the over-analyzed Ruy Lopez and Italian Opening.

The Center Game

With this opening, you’ll get a middlegame position that you know very well, but quite often will be new to Black. This will probably guarantee you an advantage on the clock, which will further increase your winning chances.

A Perfectly Playable Chess Opening Surprise

The author, Arne Moll, is an experienced club player, chess writer and chess book reviewer, so he knows exactly what the reader needs: the historical context, the basic strategic ideas of each line, the tactical patterns that will emerge, and some inspiring model games by great players such as Ian Nepomniatchi and Arjun Erigaisi —who uses the Center Game as a surprise weapon.

Arne Moll

Arne Moll is an experienced club and tournament player with a peak rating well above 2200. He was a chess writer for the legendary blog Chess Vibes and Chess.com and has reviewed dozens of chess books. He lives in Amsterdam and works as an IT and Data specialist in the Finance industry.

A Perfectly Playable Chess Opening Surprise

This is a book about the Center Game, an old chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.♕xd4.
At the highest level, the Center Game has never been a popular answer to 1.e4 e5. But things are moving. The world’s number four at the moment of writing, Arjun Erigaisi, is one of several top-rated players who employ
it regularly these days, and some of the most advanced neural network chess engines evaluate 2.d4 (followed by 3.♕xd4) as almost equal to the alternative 2.♘f3. Interesting, isn’t it?

Arne Moll

My aim with this book is to show the reader why the Center Game is a great opening, how it evolved, which players were ahead of their time, and how it could, perhaps, become a more popular opening in the near future.
It certainly deserves to be taken seriously as a dangerous surprise weapon.

Opening

But this is not merely a theoretical exercise or a repertoire book. It is also a personal account and a declaration of love. I hope the reader will catch some of the enthusiasm and joy I still feel for this opening after playing it
for almost 30 years.

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