Arne Moll escreveu em ChessVibes uma recensão crítica sobre a publicação recente de um livro com o título The Ruy Lopez Revisited [New in Chess]. É parte desse texto que aqui se disponibiliza.
Two weeks ago I wrote about David Vigorito’s new book on the Marshall Attack of the Ruy Lopez. In this review, I want to take a look at GM Ivan Sokolov’s latest book The Ruy Lopez Revisited, published by New in Chess. I think both books have their charm, and in a way, they complement each other quite nicely.
In the introduction to The Ruy Lopez Revisited, Sokolov describes his switch from the Sicilian to the Ruy Lopez about twenty years ago, and how he “faced [a] huge amount of theory and deviations White had at his disposal.” He writes how he made the practical decision to study and play early deviations instead of mainlines, and it clearly paid off. Now, he’s written a book about these sidelines, which he calls a “practical opening guide to a tournament player who is willing to employ these variations, whereby he will often bring a fight to his opponent’s doorstep as easy as move 6 or 7.” And a very impressive opening guide it is, too.
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