Johnson - Positional Attacks

The author Bruno Dieu is a FIDE Master and became French Correspondence Chess Champion in 2000. He has a rich experience in chess, having participated in various chess tournaments, both over the board and in correspondence.
It's fascinating that he has competed with notable experts and writers on the 1 Nc3, such as Dick Van Geet, Anker Aasum, and Harald Keilhack. The mention of a book being a token of his experience suggests that he has documented his insights and knowledge about this opening.
Overall, this is a most promising exploration for those interested in chess and this specific opening.
We are convinced you will enjoy the chess ride Bruno provided in his excellent researched book. 470 pages Hardcover

La taille a diminué d'un quart, mais le prix est hélas resté le même... Ce troisième tome est l'occasion de redécouvrir les deux joueurs sans doute les plus sous-estimés de l'histoire des échecs. Parce qu'il ont eu le malheur de régner quand le monde des échecs n'avait d'yeux que pour le ludion Fischer, et parce que leur style était pour l'un difficile à comprendre et pour l'autre difficile à caractériser, Petrosian et Spassky ont parfois été considérés comme des champions au rabais. Leur palmarès et leur valeur méritent pourtant mieux que ce jugement hâtif, et ce volume devrait contribuer à remettre quelque peu les pendules à l'heure - quelque peu seulement, la sélection de parties étant un peu courte pour illustrer d'aussi longues carrières (souvenons-nous que Petrosian fut présent dans les Tournois des Candidats durant 27 ans...). Au passage, on retrouve aussi quelques comparses doués : Portisch, le malchanceux Leonid Stein et, plus étrangement (car ses meilleurs résultats datent de l'ère Karpov), Lev Polougaevsky. Quand au style du livre, inutile d'y revenir : vous commencez à connaître le produit. Rendez-vous sous peu pour un sujet beaucoup plus rebattu : Bobby Fischer...

Chess players can look ahead, formulate a clear plan, and act accordingly. That's why chess is the perfect learning environment for becoming a strategic expert. But how do you train this? It starts with playing many games and analysing them carefully afterwards. At the same time, you should learn from the best by studying the games of the world's strongest players and gradually build their techniques into your play. This book offers you 100 strategic exercises from the games of the best of the best, the World Champions from Bobby Fischer to Ding Liren. You will learn foundational techniques such as: how to improve your worst-placed piece; how to exploit a lead in development; or make the right piece trade; and how to create a strong square; plus numerous others. Solving these exercises will help every ambitious club player better understand how to make and execute plans. 260 pages

In my first book I wanted to enlighten the reader on those various lines that were

less explored, and those that have been almost forgotten but were nevertheless

interesting.

However this time the book is about cutting-edge lines, which is a very

modern approach to this fascinating opening. Moreover it is important to say that

when I was writing my first book a few years ago, surprisingly, some of these current

lines simply didn’t exist, or were only discussed in a very minor way.

It is true that the Grünfeld fits in very well with the engines’ way of playing chess,

and in that sense it’s almost the perfect opening with which to implement and generate

such ideas.

Let’s have a look now at what I mean and start reading my findings!

GM Milos Pavlovic, January 2024.