Friday, June 20, 2008

A forgotten blog?

I finally remembered having started this blog almost a year ago. A lot has happened since that: many losses, many wins and some draws.

I ended up changing my white repertoire pretty completely. Now it is based on d4, London attack and Torre attack. Both of them are openings with easily comprehensible ideas and thus they are appropriate for an ordinary club player who does not have enough time to study incomprensibilities of Botvinnik variation in Semi Slav. In addition, both of the openings have more sting than Colle attack.

There are some good books for those willing to learn these openings. For Torre, I would suggest getting Graham Burgess' book The Gambit Guide to the Torre Attack. For London, get Sverre Johnsen's and Vlatko Kovacevic's Win with the London System.