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If you don’t know what to do or how to study these collection of miniatures, I advice you to read the following article:
A hardcore guide to study and train your chess openings (1st part)
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I. Defining the Cochrane Gambit -and the other “boring” classic variants. The Cochrane Gambit (which owes its name to John Cochrane, a Scottish amateur who used it consistently) is a knight sacrifice, played by White, in exchange for two pawns in the opening. Also, White gets a strong pawn center and some attack against the Black king, which is unable to castle. It’s not widely used by “big names” (with the honorable exception of the game Topalov-Kramnik, Linares 1999) -but in amateur and lower rated...
read moreHere is a collection of miniatures of the Evans Gambit, the position that arises after: 1.e4, e5. 2Cf3, Cc6 3.Ac4, Ac5 4.b4!?, Axb4 5.c3 The idea behind this gambit is to gain tempi in development, opening lines and building a strong center at the expense of a pawn and winning time stalking the dark squared bishop. Among the fans of this gambit is the English grandmaster Nigel Short, who had no hesitation playing it against the very Garry Kasparov. Kasparov himself has played this gambit, like the stylish win against Anand. This gambit is...
read moreHere is a collection of miniatures of the Scotch Gambit, the position that arises after: 1.e4, e5. 2.Nf3, Nc6 3.Bc4, Nf6 4.d4, exd4 5.e5, d5 6.Bb5, Ne4 It´s considered a serious alternative to the “Fried Liver Attack” (1.e4, e5. 2Nf3, Cc6 3.Bc4, Nf6 4.Ng5) and often produces interesting games and full of ideas. They are 54 miniatures games, with no more than 25 moves for each side, and each and everyone of them end in checkmate, or they are just a few moves away to get it. If you don´t know what to do with this resource, I...
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