Catastrophe in the Opening UpdateSN_required true There are very easy problems

There are very easy problems that will encourage you to keep going and difficult problems that will captivate the reader

GM Jacob Aagaard is the only chess author to have won all the major Book of the Year awards

Alexander Delchev

He also provides a thorough grounding on the positional and tactical aspects of the opening

in chapter 2 – The Rook

Catastrophe in the Opening UpdateSN_required true There are very easy problemsThe gods put the middle game before the endgame, but if you mistreat the opening, you'll never get into the middle game! Opening Disasters uses contemporary master games to show how players fail at the beginning of the game and is instructive for players of all levels. If you learn from the typical mistakes of others, you can better avoid disaster in your own games. The author hopes that studying the games on this DVD will make you more tactically