Description
An easy-to-learn chess opening that may look innocent, but is actually full of poison.
One of the best and most famous ways to meet White’s first move 1.e4 remains the tried and tested 1…e5. After this move many games lead for the Ruy Lopez.
The Ruy is a perfectly good choice for White, but one that requires you to study the endless different setups and follow the continuously evolving theory in that opening.
Karsten Müller and Georgios Souleidis gives an alternative that is perfect for the average club player: a complete repertoire for White in the Italian Opening.
This modernized version of the age-old ‘Giuoco Piano’, with the innocent looking pawn moves c2-c3 and d2-d3, is not only popular at club level, but is also regularly adopted by an increasing number of strong Grandmasters, also the very best, such as Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri.
The set-up is easy to learn and understand, and theoretical novelties are much less important than the principles it is based on, such as the pawn push d3-d4 or bringing the b1 knight over to the kingside and into the attack.
The Slow Italian may look innocent, but is actually full of poison, because White has a lot of chances to create aggressive play by making natural looking moves with his pieces.
Müller and Souleidis have built a solid weapon that every amateur chess player will delight in playing. They have included exercises to test your understanding.
Karsten Müller (1970) is a mathematician and a chess grandmaster from Hamburg. He is a creative writer whose books include the bestselling ‘Bobby Fischer: Career and Complete Games’ and ‘The Modern Scandinavian’. Georgios Souleidis (1972) is an International Master from Germany who works as a chess coach and journalist. He has played the Slow Italian with ecxellent results himself. He has wrote the book TP Chess Puzzle Book 2016 with Dirk Sebastian
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