This book is a further addition to Everyman’s best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. Neil McDonald goes back to the basics of the Queen’s Gambit Declined, introducing the keymoves and ideas, and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them –something that is often neglected or taken for granted in other texts. In this user-friendly guide, the reader is helped throughout by an abundance of notes, tips and warnings highlighting the vital characteristics of the Queen’s Gambit Declined and of opening play in general. Starting Out: Queen’s Gambit Declined is a perfect guide for improving players orfor those new to this opening.
- Detailed coverage of a classic chess opening
- Written by a Queen’s Gambit Declined expert
- All the main lines are covered
