Starting Out: The Queen's Indian

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Summary: A superb primer for intermediate to advanced chess players
Review: Starting Out: The Queen's Indian is a solid, practical chess guide to "The Queen's Indian", one of the most well-known defenses Black has to the queen's pawn opening. By striving to control the central squares with pieces rather than pawns, The Queen's Indian balances risk with reward, and leads to complex situations favored by aggressive and positional players alike. Extensively detailed notes, sample games, dissection of key strategies, tips, tricks, and techniques for both sides make Starting Out: The Queen's Indian a superb primer for intermediate to advanced chess players seeking to hone their skills.


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Summary: Its just the fisrt step.
Review: The indirect aproach in chess bascally developed by Nimzowitsch in the 1920`s (at the same time Liddell Hart was developing the Indirect Aproach in the military leading to what we know today as Blitzkrieg) made a whole of chess players to adopt these patterns when playing. Larsen, Petrosian and many others made themselves by studying "My Sistem" and results are there to see it. As an Indirect Aproach fan i use openings like the Nimzoindian, Queen Indian, Nimzo-Larsen Attack and the sicilian (i enjoy the dragon). These Book by Mr. Emms is very good, very strategic, with clear ideas, its not a winning with and most important at all its the easy reading it represents. Of course you will need to go to other Queen indian books to sharpen your knowledge. Then we can consider this book as the first step only, but it will make it a lot easier to understand future reading on these opening. Enjoy these book and good luck in the next tournament. (Read also my reviews on the Nimzo-Larsen attack and the Modern Defence both books by everyman chess)