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Point form book review by NM Kevin Pacey: Attacking the Spanish by IM Sabino Brunello (Quality Chess 2009)

- repertoire book for Ruy Lopez defenders
- written by an Italian IM Marshall Attack practitioner
- covers three Black gambits vs. the Ruy Lopez (the Schliemann, Gajewski and Marshall)
- repertoire coverage vs. the Schliemann is based on 4...dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nf6
- repertoire coverage of the Marshall Accepted, i.e. 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 (8...d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 ...

Point form book review by NM Kevin Pacey: Fighting the Ruy Lopez by GM Milos Pavlovic (Everyman 2009)

- repertoire book for defending against the Ruy Lopez with the Marshall Attack
- written by a Serbian GM Marshall Attack practitioner
- covers all likely White deviations within the Ruy Lopez that a Marshall Attack player might encounter
- repertoire coverage of the Marshall Accepted is based on 11...c6
- Introduction sets out the ideas behind the Marshall ...

Point form book review by NM Kevin Pacey: The Marshall Attack by GM Bogdan Lalic (Everyman 2003)

- covers all main variations and sub-variations of the Marshall Attack and Anti-Marshall (Ruy Lopez) in detail, from both White and Black's point of view
- written by a leading opening theoretician
- Introduction provides a brief summary of reasons to play the Marshall
- the author gives much explanatory prose and analysis that falls within the book's 105 complete ...

Part 3 – From En Passant #82; December 1986 pp. 12-14 (continued)
By the way, it was not until 1983 that many of my games were free from large mistakes, but even then almost all of my losses could be blamed on these alone. I recommend sorting your games in terms of types of mistakes. Early games are not worth analyzing beyond a certain point: adding up the obvious mistakes will often suffice. This gives an idea of where to put your efforts. The categories should initially be simple: “Lost ...

Part 2 – From En Passant #82; December 1986 pp. 12-14
In 1977-78 I completed the large step of filling in the rest of what could be called mandatory middlegame knowledge. I studied much of The Middle Game, volumes 1 and 2, by Euwe and Kramer; later I saw a book with similar content, Modern Chess Strategy by Pachman. This widened the number of opening and middlegame patterns and strategies of which I had some knowledge. Also enlightening was Larry Evans’ New Ideas in Chess, which sets forth ...