Transpo Tricks in Chess
Transpo Tricks in Chess
- ISBN 13:
9780713490510
- ISBN 10:
0713490519
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/01/2007
- Publisher: Batsford
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Summary
A transposition in chess is a little like a bait-and-switch marketing ploy. The customer thinks he's getting a bargain on one piece of merchandise, but he ends up buying another at a much higher price. In the first book devoted to chess transpositions,New York Postcolumnist and acclaimed chess author Andy Soltis shows how this strategy works over the board. By transposing a series of well-known moves (i.e., making them in an unfamiliar order), a player leads his opponent into an unfavorable position that he would normally have shunned. Using entertaining examples from the games of the masters, Soltis covers a variety of transpositions in virtually every kind of opening: double e-pawn, Sicilian, the Reti, English, Indian, and others.