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Book Notes  The Marshall Attack is a chess opening like no other. Black simply gives away a centre pawn. But in return, he gets long-term attacking chances and activity that can persist well into the endgame. It is almost a century since Frank Marshall invented his sensational gambit, but it is still controversial, and more popular than ever amongst the best players in the world. In their hands, the Marshall Attack looks remarkably solid - even if White neutralizes Black's attacking chances and remains a pawn up, Black often achieves full positional compensation. In Understanding the Marshall Attack, IM David Vigorito shows that many typical Marshall positions can be broken down into elements that we can all grasp, and so build up an intuition to guide us. He provides detailed, cutting-edge theoretical coverage of all its main lines and the most important Anti-Marshall systems. What is a squeeze? When you take control of a game, deprive your opponent of counterplay and slowly squeeze the life out of your opponent. Power Play 13: The Squeeze will help you to recognize when a squeeze is possible and how to execute it. Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions will enable you to test your understanding of the subject.
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Reviews in Brief |  Squeezing the Gambits
by Kiril Georgiev Unless you are properly prepared, the openings covered in this book can be somewhat of a nuisance. This volume by Kiril Georgiev, formerly Bulgaria's top player, purports to solve nearly all of White's potential problems. Though most opening books these days are rather long and heavier on the page count than necessary, the 192 pages in this "slim" volume offer plenty of material to work through on these four rare quests in tournament play. Against the Benko, Georgiev recommends lines where White returns the gambit pawn immediately with either 5 b6 (after 4 cxb5 a6) or 6 b6 (after 4 Nf3 g6 5 cxb5 a6). Interestingly enough, he has had some experience on the black side of the Benko Gambit, which he played somewhat frequently from 1994 to 1998, scoring particularly well against these 5 b6/6 b6 lines, with 3½ points from four games. His recommendation goes against the top level trend of accepting the pawn on a6 and then continuing with a g2-g3 set-up. He argues against using that set-up for White in the introduction. Instead, he advocates a much more positional approach, where White chooses a solid foundation that aims to push Black off the table. In common for all of the recommended lines for White is that White doesn't need to memorize an abundance of theory to get an advantage or at least a slightly preferable position. Overall, this book is very good and will provide ambitious players a good foundation to play for an advantage as white against these gambits. Read the full review here. | | |
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Puzzle Answer: 22...Qe8! 0-1 White cannot save both the a4-rook and the e3-bishop. Renet-Nunn, Haifa 1989 (Source: Understanding the Marshall Attack)
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