Learn from the Open Games improvers International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines

International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations after 1

In the text and in the solutions

funny and imaginative

The examples of play are all built around a complete chess game that came to a logical conclusion based on one player's muffs and the other player's exploitation of those errors

The Anti-Sicilian systems include: positionally motivated lines such as the 2 c3 Sicilian and the 3 Bb5 systems

Learn from the Open Games improvers International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examinesIn this DVD, Sam Collins explains the games with the opening moves 1. e4 e5 from which he learned the most. Topics covered include: exchanges, attacking strategy, gambits and sacrifices, opening choice, playing with opposite colored bishops, restricting the opponent's pieces, dealing with queenless middlegames, and endgame technique. These points are critical to properly understanding how to deal with the middlegame, but Collins also provides complete