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A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White
Sam Collins
A quick-to-learn king’s pawn repertoire with healthy development and attacking chances
Contents
Symbols
Bibliography
Introduction
1: Introducing the IQP
2: 1 e4 e5
3: c3 Sicilian
4: Caro-Kann
5: French
6: Pirc/Modern
7: Scandinavian
8: Alekhine
Index of Variations
Copyright Information
About the Authors
About Gambit Publications
Other Gambit Titles on Kindle
Symbols
+
++
x
#
check
double check
captures
checkmate
!!
!
!?
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0-0
0-0-0
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–/+
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1-0
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0-1
Ch
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n
)
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brilliant move
good move
interesting move
dubious move
bad move
blunder
castles kingside
castles queenside
winning position for White
large advantage for White
slight advantage for White
equal position
slight advantage for Black
large advantage for Black
winning position for Black
The game ends in a win for White
The game ends in a draw
The game ends in a win for Black
Championship
n
th match game
see next diagram
Bibliography
Websites
chess24.com
chessbase.com
chesspublishing.com
davidsmerdon.com
youtube.com
Magazines
New in Chess
Chess Today
Books
J.Aagaard and N.Ntirlis,
Playing the French
(Quality Chess, 2013)
V.Bologan,
Bologan’s Black Weapons
(New in Chess, 2014)
L.D’Costa,
The Panov-Botvinnik Attack Move by Move
(Everyman, 2014)
J.Emms,
Attacking with 1 e4
(Everyman, 2001)
M.Flores Rios,
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
(Quality Chess, 2015)
P.Negi,
Grandmaster Repertoire: 1 e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann and Philidor
(Quality Chess, 2014)
N.Vitiugov,
The French Defence: A Complete Black Repertoire
(Chess Stars, 2010)
D.Evseev,
Fighting the French: A New Concept
(Chess Stars, 2011)
Databases
Mega Database 2015 (ChessBase)
Engines
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Houdini 3
Rybka 3
Komodo 9
Stockfish 7
Introduction
Choosing an opening repertoire (with either colour) is one of the most important decisions a player can make.
When players start out, they tend to select trappy variations (of the 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6?? 4 Qxf7#
variety), which tend to be discarded later.
As players gain more experience, the path splits somewhat. Often a choice will be made based on whether a
line has a lot of theory (and, hence, requires a lot of time to learn) or is more of a sideline. Some players
model their opening repertoires on their favourite players, which is quite a reasonable approach.
In my view, the best way to pick an opening is to think carefully about the typical middlegame positions (and,
in particular, the typical structures) to which it leads. Since all mainstream openings are perfectly playable, by
picking an opening you are really selecting a position after 10-15 moves which you need to be comfortable
playing. For example, if you treasure space, then the Pirc (1 e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 Nc3 g6) and the Modern (1 e4
g6) defences are obviously unsuitable, since Black immediately cedes central space to White.
The white repertoire I present in this book is aimed, in so far as reasonable, for a particular pawn-structure,
namely the Isolated Queen’s Pawn (‘IQP’), together with the related structures of the Isolated Pawn Couple
and Hanging Pawns. Of course White can’t force Black into an IQP structure in every line. And in some lines, it
isn’t possible to obtain a decent version of the IQP (as we shall see, when the side with an IQP goes wrong,
they can often be seriously worse). But the strong preference, throughout this repertoire, is for this structure.
This decision has been made for a number of reasons:

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