Offbeat Spanish - Flear "Chess Pieces With Box" Solid walnut and maple hardwoods

Solid walnut and maple hardwoods

it presents a wide range of specific chess positions and asks the reader to find the next move or series of moves that lead to checkmate — with two diagrams per page and the answers spelled out underneath

the Alapin Variation

Weight: 16oz

Offbeat Spanish - Flear "Chess Pieces With Box" Solid walnut and maple hardwoodsDeciding what to play against the Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez) is a perennial problem for those who play open games as Black. It's all too easy to play too passively and end up having to face the Spanish Torture. In this book, GM Glenn Flear studies a wide variety of ambitious and offbeat answers catering to many different playing styles. From the super solid Berlin (used so successfully by Vladimir Kramnik in his World Championship match victory against