".even better than I imagined" - Marco Milone, For those of you who want a similar epiphany in the 21st century, these two volumes by Watson will do the job." - Pete Tamburro, Chess Life I actually started to understand some key chess ideas. My rating jumped from 1400 to almost 1700. Over the course of my summer vacation, I read those books. I picked up a copy of Nimzovich's Chess Praxis and a copy of My System. "When your reviewer was a teenager in 1964, there were no databases, no Internet, precious few really good chess books and no DVDs. Gambit books by Watson: The Gambit Guide to the Modern Benoni, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Chess Strategy in Action, Mastering the Chess Openings volume 1, Mastering the Chess Openings volume 2, Mastering the Chess Openings volume 3. His former pupils include the 1997 World Junior Champion, Tal Shaked. In 1999, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, Watson's first book for Gambit, won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award and the United States Chess Federation Fred Cramer Award for Best Book. His groundbreaking four-volume work on the English firmly established his reputation in the 1980s, and he has produced a string of top-quality works since. International Master John Watson is one of the world's most respected writers on chess. This volume, focusing on king's pawn openings, is a book that will make chess-players think hard about how they begin their games, while offering both entertainment and challenging material for study in openings such as the Sicilian and Ruy Lopez. In this major two-volume work, Watson presents a wide-ranging view of the way in which top-class players really handle the opening, rather than an idealized and simplified model. Here he does likewise for the openings, explaining how flexible thinking and notions such as 'rule-independence' can apply to the opening. Moreover, he did so in ways that have enabled them to enter the general chess consciousness of club players.
In his previous books on chess strategy, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy and Chess Strategy in Action, he explained vital concepts that had previously been the domain only of top-class players. John Watson seeks to help chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings.
Tragically often, once the opening is over, a player won't know what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. For many chess-players, opening study is sheer hard work.
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