M ust put up with a slight but defendable disadvantage o ne also has to do that in many other openings with Black. And if one meets a well-informed opponent (who k nows this variation and perhaps has also read this book) then one At other levels, roughly up to 2200, one can be successfu l in many games with this surprise weapon, particularly if one i s familiar with the most i mportant ideas and combinations in this book. The Budapest Gambit and Fajarowicz Gambit - the subjects of this book - are little played nowadays i nternationally well i nformed professionals are hard to surprise there. Suddenly, instead of your (possibly weaker) opponent, you must struggle against Grand master X, which seldom turns out well. If you play t he Benoni it can easil y happen that your opponent has just discovered a novelty in a magazine and uses it against you. Every yea r hundreds of master games are published which open, for example, with t he Benoni. A nd so we arrive at t he theme of this book. So he can play more enter prisingly and employ the element of surprise. He has not the advantage of ample time available for study, but also not the disadvantage t hat his own games are too well known and can be closely examined by his opponent. For the 'normal' league and tournament player the problem is quite different. The result of this is that they play o nly established variations which have been examined in detail the consumption of time for this is considerable. F u rt hermore, chess masters are 'transparent' inasmuch as their games are regularly published. Should one follow the greats and base one's own repe rtoire on, say, t he World Champion? Or should one adopt some aggressive variation to surprise the opponent? The following considerations speak in favour of t he second possibility: Professionals have a lot of time to study countless variations and refine them deep i n to the middlegame. Lamfordįoreword What should one play with Black? Every chessplayer has asked himself this question. T.Batsford L td, 4 Fitzhardinge Street, London W I H OAHĪ BATSFORD CHESS BOOK Adviser: R. Photoset by Andek Printing, London and pri nted in G reat Britain by Billing & Son Ltd, Worcester, for the publishers B.
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