Mastering the Chess Openings: Volume 4 - John Watson

Paperback, 336 pages In this highly-acclaimed series, John Watson helps chess-players achieve a more holistic and insightful view of the openings. He explains not only the ideas and strategies behind specific openings, but also the interconnections of chess openings taken as a whole. By presenting the common threads that underlie opening play, Watson provides a permanent basis for playing openings of any type. This final volume draws together many themes in a wide-ranging discussion of general opening topics. By looking at familiar situations from new angles, Watson helps us greatly increase our understanding of them. In the process, he covers a wide variety of opening structures and variations not seen in the earlier volumes and presents a great wealth of original analysis. Reti and Fianchetto Systems Reversed Openings Symmetry Irregular Openings Gambits: Primitive or Positional Universal Openings In the final two chapters, Watson presents his views on the importance of opening stud