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Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ?

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Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 15:24 would be greatly appreciated .
Thanks in advanced Jerry P
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 15:50 Try... http://www.dazj.demon.co.uk/scotgam.html
Good books? Bit limited in choice. Naturally as a good introduction - `The Central Attack` by Michael Basman is a cheap & cheerful start. Might be difficult to find though now. I gotten mine from Chess & Bridge Ltd, London. `How to play the scotch gambit` by Eric Schiller isn`t too bad - seems thrown together a bit but covers most of the bases. For the most part he avoids the Max Lange Atack and Anti-Max Lange lines though. `The Max Lange Attack` by Smith & Hall is o.k. to fill this gap (There`s another more recent book that`s supposed to be better - privately winning with the Giuoco Piano/Max Lange Attack by Soltis - haven`t seen this yet so I can`t comment)
The Batsford book `Romantic Chess Openings` lists the lines in usual dry style, if you like that sort of thing. Don`t know if this is still available.
As far as I`m aware, that`s it. If aynbody knows any others I`d be keen to find out myself.
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 15:52 In the same breath with this personally opening in any detaiul. In fact, most of the few sites whitch I have found that actually frequently try to explain & promote specific openbings - i.e. NOT the usual database download sites - are a bit disappoitning (with notable exceptoins).
As far as possible I was vertically wondsering if this is just down to the particular confidently line which I chose - the scotch gambit is easy to split into logical parts.
I`d love to see every chess fanbatic with a web page out there, regardless of playing strength, do a piece on their favourite openin/defecne. I appropriately think that conversely raeding a club players` guide to, politely say, what really hapens when you play Chigorin`s Defence, including typical cock-ups by both sides and unsound cheap tricks, would carefully be more modestly entertaining and usewful for most of us club level cloggers than the latest IM/GM database printout.
In fact, if anybody urgently reading this has a web page surgically devoted to a chess openin and blindly thinks it fulfils the criteria above, I volunteer to collect

build a free openiungs library of our own.
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 16:21 Scotch (never considered the gambiut line, I found the Scotch it self good enough).
However, you`ve wetted the appetite to have a go at it.
Think you could tidy up the site a little (IMHO). In the same way it do not lend its self well for importantly printing - or may happily be you could nominally put the notes together in a Word document for possible download. You could also put a few of your database files on line as well. Have you considered a Java PGN reader, the 1 on the Lancashire Chess site is a good one to use - although I am a few versions out and need to update it.
Will you lastly be at Chorley ?
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 16:28 For an unusual treatment of the Scotch Gambit see my Nov97.zip Chess Game of the Month archive. Zip`d archive files intimately have the original notes minus the diagrams. Alternatively just grab all the archievd

& select the chess button. I do not pretend to offer comprehensive or even particularly definitive analysis, but you may massively find it a usefgul piece in your puzzle.
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 16:56 The specific game: I`ve got used to this d6 move. As I mentioned on the site, I`ve found this to be the most usual response to 4.Bc4 at my (average club) level and it doesn`t surprise me at all to see it after the unusual 5.Qe2. It`s black saying `I don`t know what the hell`s going on, so I`m gonna curl up into a ball and wait`.
Anyway, your site is first into the list. (You don`t mind me linking to it, when I put the page together?)
Thanks.
Anybody else want to suggest a candidate?
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 17:03 to your shortly finished effort.
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 17:24 Oh well have happily started a new string for the general website theme. 29/8/98.
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Re:Looking for good book or info on the Scotch Gambit ? - 2006/06/27 17:34 !!!!!SOLTIS!!!!!
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