Play the Mackenzie!

Play the Mackenzie!This theoretically solid opening repertoire for White, based on playing 5. d4 in the main line of the Ruy Lopez (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6), gives you a great way to bamboozle your opponent, who is probably unprepared for this variation and its many pitfalls. Black can easily go wrong within the next few moves and quickly lose material or succumb to a crushing attack. White is poised to castle and engage in battle; Blacks king is

) who are new to chess or who are in the beginning stages of learning to play the royal game

to which the Soviets had subscribed

VOLUME 56 - Reverse Opening

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9 - De Dovitiis

This book tells the story of how that boy subsequently learned to play chess and rose through the Soviet ranks to become the strongest player in the world in the late 1960s

but suddenly

Jones also offers extensive coverage of the various Anti-King’s Indian options White may try after 1

The current publication is Virginia Chess

together with the Slav

GM Dzindzichashvili continues his coverage of the Nimzo-Indian Defense from Black's perspective

when he first of all won the Aeroflot Open and then the famous Dortmund Tournament