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SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises
To Jonathan
SECRETS OF
OPENING
SURPRISES
JEROEN BOSCH
2003 New In Chess Alkmaar
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2003 Jeroen Bosch
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ISBN 90-5691-098-
I
Preface
The title of a book should ideally tell the
reader something about its contents. The
title - Secrets of Opening Surprises -
clearly suggests, and indeed promises, a
few things. There can be no doubt that this
book proclaims to be about openings. The
addition of the word 'surprises' may sug-
gest to the reader that he
wilt
find out so-
mething new, or unexpected. Finally, the
author, in
chosing
this title, purports to re-
veal certain 'secrets'.
What is an opening surprise? Or indeed
what sort of move in the opening phase of
a chess game do we consider to be surpri-
sing? The general rules of opening play
state quite clearly that you should: (I)
gain influence in the centre.
(2)
develop
your pieces, and
(3)
bring your king into
safety. Therefore, you should not: make
to many pawn moves, move more than
once with the same piece, develop your
queen too early, etc, etc.
It
follows logi-
cally that a surprising move in the ope-
ning will often appear to go against these
general rules of good opening play. A
move that surprises your opponent is of
course not synonymous with a good
move. Thus. 1.f3 is surprising but also
bad.
The question of quality is an important
one. The opening variations that you will
find in this book are not the so-called
main lines. These lines are strong (which
is why (hey have become main lines), but
demand continuous study and will cert-
ainly not surprise your opponent. Are the
'surprise variations' presented in this
book less good than 'main lines'? Let us
not beat about the bush: from a certain
'objective' (Kasparov-like) viewpoint
they
will
indeed be 'weaker'. However,
the variations presented in this book have
all been played by grandmasters! Hence,
this should give you a certain guarantee
about their quality. Moreover, it is quite
possible that your results are better with a
variation that requires not
(00
much stu-
dy, surprises your opponent and is good
fun to play.
Let
us
consider the next element: What
secrets can this author reveal? In New in
Chess 1998/8 I wrote an article called
'Svidler's Opening Secret' about
a
Peter
Svidler speciality: l.d4 tLif6
2.c4 g6
3.~c3 d5 4.~g5 ~g7!?
Two issues on,
Svidler commented (in a game annotati-
on), with tongue-in-check, upon the logi-
cal inconsistency of that title: . if
it
really
was a secret [Jeroen Bosch] would not
know about it, right?'. So true, so true.
Apart from the novelties and the original
analyses in this book, there are no
.secrets' in the strictest sense of the word
in this book. The secretive element in this
book lies in presenting to the reader an
opening idea that he may not have known
about, or thought possible, but one that
has been played successfully by one or
more strong players.
This book contains no less than 18of such
opening ideas. Some of them for White,
some of them for Black. In some cases
they provide you with a weapon against a
complete opening, in other cases an idea
against a panicular variation is given. The
material has been divided into 6 sections of
more or less equal length. The first 4 secti-
ons (16 chapters in all) are thematically or-
ganized. Thus. section Ideals with an early
a3 for White in several lines. Section II il-
lustrates that bishops may be developed in
surprising ways. In section III is demon-
strated that early queen moves can be quite
strong. Pawn aggression
is
the constitutive
element of section IV.The final sections of
this book are organized somewhat diffe-
rently in that each has only one chapter. In
section V the subject is a line for White
against the French. Section VI presents an
original Sicilian for Black. These final two
chapters are much longer. They contain a
detailed theoretical section followed by il-
lustrative games.
Secrets of Opening Surprises
is written
for players who like
to
refresh their
opening arsenal with some lesser-known
and interesting ideas. I hope that the
reader will have as much fun in studying
these SOS lines. as I had in 'discovering'
them and analysing them. I wish the
reader success in testing out these SOS
variations ..
Ieroen Bosch
Nijmegen, August 2003
Contents
Section I
The left hook a3!?
Chapter
I
The Gunsberg Variation
Chapter 2 Your SOS weapon versus the Pire
Chapter 3 Outfox your opponent
9
10
22
29
Section
II
Surprising bishop moves
Chapter 4 Sokolov's surprise
Chapter 5 Play the Surprise Indian
Chapter 6 TN on move 5
Chapter 7 A bishop's wonder move
39
40
48
57
64
Section
III
Early queen moves
Chapter 8 Alapin bites the Dutch
Chapter 9 Another Tarrasch Variation
Chapter 10 Surprising Hodgson
Chapter
II
A surprising queen sortie
Chapter 12 A tactical weapon
71
73
81
89
94 ~
98
Section IV
An SOS pawn thrust 105
Chapter 13 Modern, Scandinavian or Alekhine? 106
Chapter 14Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen? 113
Chapter
15
Trumping the Tromp 121
Chapter
16
The improved Lisitsin Gambit 127
Section V
Outflanking the French
Chapter
17
French Wing Gambit
133
134
Section VI
A
surprising Sicilian
Chapter 18 The Kupreichik Variation
171
172
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