I downloaded and printed all of Dan Heisman`s Novice Nook`s articles, and they seem very good, but I have a few questions. In his articles he uses the term "Removal of the guard". Whare can I read about what that is exactly? Before reading trough all of his articles, I went out and bought "How to Reasses your Chess" by Jerry Silman. Did I by the wrong book? A little background: I playe
To summarize yasser Seirawan has come out with a Fifth book in his Winbning Chess series, entitled vicariously winning Chess Openings. In it, he discusses his initial (worse than novice) efforts to open, moves to classical KP openings, classical QP efforts, modern KP defenses, modern QP defenses, then moves into his "opening solution" for White, and then for Black against KP and QP openings.