Gambit Chess Openings [Paperback]

Eric Schiller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 19, 2002

Gambits, where one side sacrifices material for an advance in development, are the most exciting and popular openings in chess!  This book contains every important gambit opening and variation ever played - more than two thousand opening strategies in all!  Each gambit is covered in detail with a diagram showing the standard position representative of the gambit, the move orders taken to get there, and an explanation in plain language of the thinking behind the moves.  More than one hundred games show you how the ideas behind the gambit influence the development of the game.  784 pages

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza; 1 edition (November 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580420575
• ISBN-13: 978-1580420570
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,781,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Typical Schiller, July 7, 2003

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Brian E. Mitchell (Dunwoody, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gambit Chess Openings (Paperback)

Ok first off this is a very large book, so if you are one of those people that determines value based on cost per page, then this is a decent value.

That said, this is best looked at as a sort of MCO/NCO for gambits. It has very complete coverage of various gambits, along with some analysis. The analysis is questionable in some lines (for example, e4 c6 d4 d5 e5 c5 in the caro-kann advance schiller claims is good for white, whereby most sources (gm nigel davies for example) say black has full compensation for the pawn).

This is best used as an idea book, and for gambit players who need such a work, I guess it's not bad. Yes, it's a database dump, and yes the analysis is probably pretty sketchy (the author is only a NM), but there are not a whole lot of other gambit resources out there, so if you need something of this nature, than this is probably your only choice.