Catastrophes Tactics In The Chess Opening Vol8 1e4 E5 Carsten Hansen Carsten Hansen by Carsten Hansen instant download after payment.

INTRODUCTION
Thanks for picking up this book. I sincerely hope you will
enjoy reading the book as much as I have writing it.
We all dream of winning our games fast, using excellent
opening preparation, flashy tactics and then mate our
opponents. However, it rarely goes like that. Usually, the games
average around 40 moves, contain enough blunders on both
sides to have both you and your opponent horrified after the
game. However, what I have found is that many games, even
amongst the strongest players, contain errors and mistakes,
some quite significant ones, as soon as the players depart the
theory that is known to them.
This book, the eighth volume in a series of nine, aim to take
a look at some of those games, but only the ones that are of 15
moves or shorter. Of course, for a game to end within 15 moves,
one of the players has to have made one or more serious
mistakes. I have left out games where a piece is threatened and
the player forgot to move it, touched the wrong piece or such
things. However, I have included games that include typical
mistakes, even if they seem banal.
As for the games, they are typically between players with a
rating of at least 2350 and often well more than that, although I
have made some exceptions when I found a game of particular
interest or value; you will find several games played by players
rated above 2600 in this book. Furthermore, I have included
some older games, but where the players would most certainly
have been rated above 2350 if rating had existed at that time.
The openings covered in this volume are:
• Scotch Game
• Italian Game & Evans Gambit
• Two Knights Defense
• Four Knights
• Ruy Lopez
• Petrov’s Defense – Russian Game
• Philidor’s Defense
• King’s Gambit
• Vienna Game & Bishop’s Opening
• Minor Openings: Centre Game and
Others
• Minor Gambits: Latvian Gambit and
Others
In opening encyclopedia terms, these openings have the
Chess Informant Opening code of C20 through C99. There is a
total of 189 main games, which makes this volume the bigge
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