"If a sacrifice looks good, it IS good"
"If a sacrifice looks good, then it is good".
Sounds unfamiliar? Sounds blasphemous? It is from Blitz Theory, a book we just received in stock.
It reminded me of what Genrikh Chepukaitis, the famous SmartChip blitz legend from Genna Sosonko's marvelous book, used to say: "Confusion is adequate compensation for a sacrified piece".
Blitz Theory is a naughty little book, written by Jonathan Maxwell, full of extremely interesting stuff, but only for those who really want to win at blitz. In his Endorsement of this book GM Walter Browne specifically excludes Maxwell's "Pseudo Check", a very nasty and unfair beast indeed!
Please have a look here, if you dare.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!
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