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Many aspiring chess masters and grandmasters have studied it and have praised Nimzowitsch's work

thanks to many new discoveries of possibilities for very dynamic play from Black

Bent Larsen also was a highly original chess writer and an extremely productive chess journalist

Sam Collins is an International Master from Ireland

opening study is sheer hard work

Bologan: The Popular Italian the big greek Many aspiring chess masters andChildren starting out in chess are usually taught to play 1. e4, and the first checkmate we see is after Bc4, Qh5 and Qxf7#. It sometimes seems today that chess theory is going back to its roots, when 3. Bc4 was much more popular than 3. Bb5. Today, top tournaments are full of Italian games, and it turns out that Black has much more trouble getting equalization than in some variations of the Marshall Gambit or the Berlin Defence in the Spanish. The