Action Chess: Purdy's 24 Hours Opening Repertoire: How to Get a Playable Middlegame,9780938650799

Action Chess: Purdy's 24 Hours Opening Repertoire: How to Get a Playable Middlegame

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ISBN13: 9780938650799
ISBN10: 0938650793
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Thinkers' Press
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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword 8(2)
Commentator's Foreword 10(3)
Opening Problems and Principles
13(12)
Rooks Are the Key
15(2)
Books Are Anti-Black
17(3)
Delayed Action Policy
20(5)
Playing Black in Close Opening: All Purpose System
25(13)
The 7.Bxf6 Line In The Queen's Gambit
38(11)
If 8. Qc2
42(3)
If 8. Rc1
45(1)
If Other 8th Moves
46(1)
If 7. Bf4
47(2)
The All Purpose System Against Various Lines
49(9)
Reti's Opening
49(1)
Catalan Opening
50(2)
English Opening
52(1)
Bird's Opening
52(2)
Old Style Queen's Gambit Declined
54(4)
The French Defense
58(12)
A Look Around
66(1)
Steiner's Way
67(1)
The 8... Qa5† Line
68(1)
The Subtle Line
68(2)
French Defense: The 3... dxe4 Line
70(18)
Variation A: 6. Be3
71(1)
Variation B: 6. Ne2
72(1)
Variation C: 6. Bf4
73(1)
Variation D: 6. Ng3
74(1)
Variation E: 6. f3
75(1)
King's Fianchetto by White
75(2)
The Straightforward Line Again
77(6)
Miscellaneous
83(2)
Conclusion
85(3)
French Defense: More On The 3...dxe4 Line
88(11)
The Straightforward Line
88(1)
The 11. Ne5 Variant
88(2)
The 11. Qe2 Variant
90(2)
The 6. Ne2 Line
92(3)
Milton's Choice
95(4)
French Defense: The 3. e5 Line
99(13)
The Advance French
99(1)
The Trunk Line
99(1)
A Crucial Position
100(2)
The Fianchetto Variant
102(1)
The Na4 Variant
103(2)
The Philidor Attack
105(2)
If White Omits c3
107(2)
Nimzovich's Gambit
109(3)
French Defense: The 3. exd5 Line
112(16)
If White Copies Morphy, Copy Alekhine
112(5)
Now Let's Be Alekhine
117(6)
Defeating the Invincible
123(3)
Exchange Variant: Summary
126(2)
Sicilian Defense, Old Dragon Variant: Introduction
128(12)
Resume
131(1)
Amazonian Play Again
132(2)
Simagin's Views
134(4)
The 6. Nb3 Variant
138(2)
Sicilian Defense, Old Dragon Variant: Interlude
140(5)
Sicilian Defense, Old Dragon Variant: Main Line And Commentary
145(15)
My Trunk Line
150(1)
A Problem
151(3)
Comments by Barden
154(4)
Footnote
158(2)
The Colle System
160(29)
The Queen's Pawn Game Without Tears
160(1)
Crowl's Debacle
161(2)
Opening Theory and the Melbourne Congress
163(1)
The Moves of the System
164(1)
The Colle System Against 1 ... d5
165(3)
To Play or Not to Play
168(1)
Alternative Lines
169(1)
Dutch Defense/Dutch Defense
169(1)
Benoni Countergambit
170(1)
The Old Indian (King's Indian)
171(1)
The New Indian (Queen's Indian)
171(1)
A Defense to the Colle System
172(5)
Colle System
177(1)
The Colle for Economy
178(2)
The Normal Defense
180(4)
Other Defenses
184(1)
King's Fianchetto Defense
185(1)
Stonewall Defense
186(1)
The ...Bf5 Defense
186(3)
Envoi 189(1)
The Purdy Library of Chess 190

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