The Elshad System

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This book is devoted to a universal system of play for Black against the closed openings – specifically, against the moves 1.d4, 1.c4, and 1.Nf3. You won’t see a strictly instructional open-ing monograph here. This is an adventure book, surveying the unknown. It’s as if you’ll find yourself in another galaxy, with four suns circling overhead. Your opponents won’t have a single clas-sical guidepost to help them. You will be able to beat anyone you want in a given game. A 2000-level player will be able to beat a grandmaster, if said grandmaster is seeing what’s happening on the board for the first time. But I’ll give the player with the black pieces a reliable compass. Everything in this book will be, to a great extent, subjective – so we won’t be looking too hard for a refutation of the Elshad System. In this opening, White will meet a whole Everest of problems to solve.