Win in the Openings!

Yakov Neishtadt

To lose a game of chess in the opening or the early middlegame is especially annoying. However, this is something that happens not only to nivices, but also to experienced masters. A knowledge of opening disasters and of the correct replies to sharp continualtions is imperative, if a player is to master this difficult phase of the game, in which much is still shroudet in mist. Time and agqin unexpected combinative themes occur, striking the opponent like a bolt from the blue. A player who possesses this knowledge ca hope for some quick and pretty victories, and it will also spare his nervers, if the opponent should wildly attack.