Winning with the Philidor

Download or read book Winning with the Philidor written by Tony Kosten and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to learning, playing and winning with Philidor's Defence, named after the chess player Andre Philidor. The book provides an analysis of this unusual and dynamic chess opening, a favourite of uncompromising players such as Aron Nimzowitsch and Bent Larsen. For club and tournament players it offers an exciting fighting alternative to the lengthy theoretical paths of the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian. Fully-annotated complete games are used to illustrate the key ideas. The author is one of England's leading players and became a Grandmaster in 1990.