Yes, this book is significantly below my level, as most of the traps are truly beginner mistakes.
I keep on the lookout for a book on opening theory that is instructive. I am not looking for a list of variations, but rather a book that explains why the moves in various lines are played and what each person's goals are in their respective openings.
Would you happen to know of a good one?
Thank you in advance.
bd5?
Would you happen to know of a good one?
Paul van der Sterren, Fundamental Chess Openings.
I have that and that's exactly what I do not want.
Just lists and lists of variations is not instructive.
Only just noticed this, over a year later, but I can't let it go by. It looks as if the OP misread my recommendation. Modern Chess Openings is "lists and lists of variations" - van der Sterren's excellent book is anything but. The variations seldom go beyond ten moves and there are lengthy explanations of the reasoning behind them.
I am reading Bruce Alberston's "Chess Opening Trap of the Day" and he gives the following trap:
My question is why not play 8...Bg4, pinning the Queen to the King?