Chess players who enjoy attacking from the very first move are rewarded here with a powerful repertoire of brilliant gambits that sacrifice an early pawn in return for rapid development and greater control over the center.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disapointing.....,
By ian cunliffe (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gambit Opening Repertoire For White (Essential Opening Repertoire) (Paperback)
As an intermediate club player, I love the attack! And I was very excited to find this book when it first came out. The book promises an 'In Depth Guide to Powerful Opening Repetoires'. Unfortunately, it is not in depth, nor reasonably complete, or particularily powerful. At one stage the author is so brazen as to actually give about 4 pages of treatment for a black defense, examining only 1 or 2 possible lines, and then says to the reader that if you want to learn the opening you should go read a book by another author! I wish to be fair to Mr Schiller, and I realize that no 'repetoire as white/black book' can hope to adequately treat the majority of possible opening lines, but he grossly abuses this liberty beyond my wildest dreams. The book's back cover makes promises of 'DESTROY ANY BLACK DEFENSE!'. And yet Mr Schiller freely admits that a number of the gambit lines he offers really are inferior! As gambit players we are willing to take chances, but we have to wonder what an author is really offering us when he admits that a # of his own lines are bad. It seems yet again that Mr Schiller's efforts are more focused on inflated promises designed to gather your dollars then on making any reasonable effort to provide the goods. The book's promises are misleading, many of the lines are particularily poor, and there is little that is 'in depth'. I could almost tolerate the substandard product if Mr Schiller was not so deceptive in his bold faced promises that he plasters across the front and back cover of this book.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Another book worth using as a doorstop, but that's about it.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gambit Opening Repertoire For White (Essential Opening Repertoire) (Paperback)
If you are curious about gambits, get "The Complete Book of Gambits", don't bother getting this. First of all, the reportoire isn't even complete. For example, 1.e4 e5 he gives only the Goring Gambit accepted and Declined. What says that Black will play 2...Nc6 (you have players that play the Petroff, the Philador, and even I have played the Latvian Gambit occasionally). Also, he'll take an unsound gambit, and try to make it sound. For some defenses, there just isn't a good gambit, why force the issue. Also, he has no sources to back himself up. No complete games. No Nothing. Next time you go book browsing, bypass this one!!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
On The Other Hand: Not For The Faint Of Heart,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gambit Opening Repertoire For White (Essential Opening Repertoire) (Paperback)
Aggressive nonconformists looking for unusual, little played or unpopular openings to ambush or irritate their opponents might find some interesting variations here. The openings that Schiller recommends are not, he admits, generally highly regarded but do lead to interesting play that may not be solvable over-the-board by a non-GM fighting the clock and an unusual line. Not a complete gambit repertoire to every possible Black line, the book gives ten gambits for 1.e4. About 70 pages of the approximately 183 text pages cover the Goring Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed 4. c3). The Sicilian Defense is met by the Halasz Gambit (1. e4 c5 2. d4 cd 3.f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Qb6) and presented in 10 pages. The French Defense meets the Alapin Gambit (1.e4 e6 2. d4 d4 3.Be3 de 4. Nd2 Nf6 5.f3) with 4 pages of variations. Schiller discusses the Ulysses Gambit to the Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 de 4.Ng5 Nf6 5.Bc4) in about 4 pages. The second longest coverage is the Short Attack to the Pirc Defense at about 23 pages (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.Qe2 Nc6). Schiller also covers the Modern Defense, Czech, Alekhine, Scandinavian, and Owen. Personally, my own non-master view is ambivalent about this book. On the plus side, you'll get some interesting positions and force yourself and your opponent to think. On the negative side, you'll frequently be down a pawn with very nebulous compensation and some of the gambits just don't have that much "shock" value. For example, the Alapin Gambit to the French, seems impressive mostly if you follow Schiller's variation. If you have Watson's Play The French: Second Ed., Watson's footnote to the Alapin gives 5...Nd5! 6.Qe2 Ne3 7.Qe3 ef 8.Ngf3 Be7 "and White has no compensation," and this response isn't hard to see over the board. The only advantage then is that the Black player doesn't play a typical French like he'd hoped (but he doesn't have a pawn.) Look at this book at your bookstore first, then decide.
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