Double Fianchetto, The Ultimate Workbook

Stormester Daniel Hausrath presenterer flere lærerike eksempelpartier der hvit eller svart fianchetterer begge løperne i ulike åpninger, og gjerne med spillere som har vært spesialister. Leseren løser oppgavestillinger underveis.

Merk at dobbelfianchetteringen i mange tilfeller fornuftig nok ikke helt tidlig i åpningen. Få et visst inntrykk av denne spennende boka, og disse spennende bøkene, gjennom innholdsfortegnelsen og utdrag fra forordet:

Fra forordet:

But let me now explain the idea of this second book. I will show you some 18 games with the more or less current trends in the double fianchetto. These games include some openings like the Tarrasch and the King’s Indian, just to name a few.

The main part of the book is divided into exercises and solutions, with 110 positions taken from double fianchetto games. I have divided the exercises into chapters, with each chapter featuring games by players who have deployed the double fianchetto quite often. You will find a lot of typical motifs used by these players.

In this part you will also detect a few examples of play by the legendary German IM Podzielny, who died in the summer of 2019 at the legendary chess age of 64. My heart urged me to write something about him, because I knew him for a long time and he was a very special person.

The difficulty level ranges from very easy through to very tough, but I won’t give points for the solutions. The ideas vary from tactics to important strategic subtleties. The reader decides how honestly he or she tries to solve these exercises. It is also not necessary to solve all of them, but it is definitely important to think about these positions and take your time. The reader should gain an impression of the many ideas and structures which are possible in the double fianchetto positions.

Sometimes you will find the complete games in the solutions section, but sometimes you will only find the most important moves up to a certain point, because the rest would be irrelevant to the topic. In some solutions I also give the first moves, because I guess that it would be very interesting to know which move order was played to reach the positions in question.

Hopefully I can give the reader more input and knowledge about those preferred structures. I am sure that you will get a much better feeling for this type of position if you try to solve all the exercises and think honestly about the moves you would like to play. Some exercises will be very difficult, but don’t be down in the mouth. The main idea is that you try to think about the moves as if they were yours in a tournament game. The annotations in the solutions should help you to get a deeper understanding. Hopefully I found some nice examples which will be enjoyable and helpful.

Innholdsfortegnelsen:

007 INTRODUCTION

009 PART 1. GAMES

011 Chapter 1. Double Fianchetto in the King's Indian

021 Chapter 2. Double Fianchetto against the King's Indian

041 Chapter 3. Double Fianchetto against the Tarrasch

063 Chapter 4. Double Fianchetto against the Queen's Gambit

081 Chapter 5. Mixed move orders with the Double Fianchetto

093 Chapter 6. Bonus

099 PART 2. EXERCISES

101 Chapter 7. Daniel Hausrath

143 Chapter 8. Daniel Fridrnan

159 Chapter 9. Vladimir Kramnik

172 Chapter 10. Gerhard Schebler

192 Chapter 11. Julio Granda Zuniga

207 Chapter 12. Anish Giri

237 Chapter 13. Vladislav Arterniev

249 Chapter 14. Ulf Andersson

257 Chapter 15. Karl Heinz Podzielny

265 Chapter 16. Richard Rapport

275 Chapter 17. Valentin Buckels

288 Chapter 18. Various players