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deo42

I really want to learn and study the stonewall attack but I can't find anything.Suggest a book or something to help me please.Thanks :)

Ziggy_Zugzwang

There's a book called "How To Think Ahead In Chess" that leaves a lot to be desired, but does include some nice Stonewall games in it's repertoire suggestion.

Another book is

"Baroque Chess Openings: Or, How to Play Your Betters at Chess"


RichColorado

Why don't you join "the stonewall attack" or

"Stone wall" ? They are both groups.

DENVER

CornerPawn

Probably the best book ever on this structure was written many years ago by Irving Chernev. The title is How to Think Ahead in Chess. There are about fifty pages on it. Excellent for the Class C player to Class A.

Why not join us at Dynamic Dutch Defense where we use the Stonewall structure quite often. Our Forum has lots of information about how to play with this stucture.

Search for us under Share -- Groups and Teams -- in the Tabs above using Dynamic Dutch Defense

kindaspongey

Ziggy_Zugzwang wrote:

"Another book is

'Baroque Chess Openings: Or, How to Play Your Betters at Chess'"

That book was about four decades ago, and I never read the whole thing, but, it seemed like a lot of fun. I think the author was Wincor.

CornerPawn wrote:

"Probably the best book ever on this structure was written many years ago by Irving Chernev. The title is How to Think Ahead in Chess. There are about fifty pages on it. Excellent for the Class C player to Class A."

I think THAT book was about six decades ago. It is one of the few books that I have read all the way through, and it was pretty much my only source of opening knowledge when I got my first provisional rating: 2018. (It's been pretty nearly all downhill over the 3 decades since then. I am now down to about 1500.) Although I long ago gave up on the specific opening suggestions in that book, I would guess that it is not without potential benefit for players interested in those openings as well as for players in general who are relatively new to the idea of planning in the opening. By the way, it was written by Horowitz and Reinfeld, not Chernev.

USCF Sales is still selling a GM Andrew Soltis book from about two decades ago: White Opening System: Stonewall Attack, Colle System and Torre Attack.

For a more modern book, it might be helpful to look at Chess Psychology: The Will to Win! by William Stewart. Helpful information might also be found in a book on Bird's opening.