Scandinavian Defence, The Dynamic 3... Qd6

Publisher: Russell Enterprises 2008

Every chess player needs a defense to 1. e4, the most popular first move for White. The ideal response is easy-to-learn, unrefuted and surprising. Scandinavian Defense: The Dynamic 3...Qd6 is such a system. It gives you room for creativity and offers strategic ideas you can understand quickly. With brand-new analysis, correspondence champ Michael Melts shows that this long-neglected line is a little-known but venomous response lying in wait for unsuspecting players of White.

For beginners to master- and international-level competitors, the opening covered in this volume offers a complete system against 1. e4. GMs Roman Dzindzichashvili, Kiril Georgiev, legendary world championship contender David Bronstein and dozens of other top players have called on this variation for important encounters. After seeing the manuscript of this book, Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers used the variation against Garry Kasparov. Scandinavian Defense: The Dynamic 3... Qd6 gives you 40 complete, annotated games - the best way to learn any opening -, but the book also contains the relevant portions of hundreds of other contests.