Overview
The main part of the book is divided into exercises and solutions, with 110 positions taken from double fianchetto games. I have divided the exercises into chapters, with each chapter featuring games by players who have deployed the double fianchetto quite often. You will find a lot of typical motifs used by these players.
Full Product Details
Author: Daniel Hausrath
Publisher: Thinkers Publishing
Imprint: Thinkers Publishing
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 9789464201345
ISBN 10: 9464201347
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 14 December 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Today chess theory is exploding and entire books are written on single variations. The idea of solving all of one's opening problems for both White and Black with just one volume seems to be too good to be true, but German Grandmaster Daniel Hausrath begs to differ. His first book Double- Fianchetto: The Modern Chess Lifestyle offers ideas on how to build a repertoire after the moves b2-b3, g2-g3, ...b7-b6 and ...g7-g6. Unlike most Thinkers Publishing efforts, which are arranged like standard opening book, Hausrath's work is arranged around 62 model games. This works well for the subject matter under discussion which is based more around ideas and strategies than long concrete variations.As White the repertoire typically begins with 1.Nf3 and 2.g3, meeting the King's Indian/Grunfeld with 3.b3, a variation Vladimir Kramnik started to play near the end of his career. The double fianchetto also works well against the Dutch, certain lines of the Queen's Gambit (the Tarrasch for example) and various variations in the Reti. It's also possible to transpose into some line Hausrath covers via 1.g3 or 1.c4.The heart of this book are Hausrath's insightful annotations, primarily prose, which cover all parts of the game (opening, middlegame and endgame). If you are interested in double fianchetto setups with either color, or if you only want to improve your positional understanding, Double- Fianchetto: The Modern Chess Lifestyle is the book for you. IM John Donaldson - USA September 2020.
Author Information
Daniel Hausrath was born on the 8th of April 1976 in Mülheim, Germany. Between his school graduation in 1995 and beginning university in 1997, he completed the requirements for his International Master title. Despite then crossing the 2500 mark and exceeding it for several years, illness dictated that he did not become a Grandmaster until 2013 when he made his third norm in Biel. Daniel is a regular participant in various European leagues (including the Bundesliga of his native country) and has been associated with the Mülheim club for over a decade. Away from the board, he is father to two young children.
