BEATING THE PETROFF

Choice of World Champions, not least Karpov and Anand, the Petroff is one of the most solid and popular defences to 1.e4. Here we have a repertoire chess book that provides an attacking arsenal for White players faced with this challenging defence. For a better understanding of the material covered the authors have separated the content into two sections: Ideas & Manoeuvres, and Illustrative Games. The book contains many new ideas and theoretical innovations from the author's private library that have been developed extensively in the past two years, together with a wealth of notable and fully annotated games from the International competitions. This is suitable for tournament players of all strengths. The authors treat all lines in a scientific manner, including sidelines. White will thus be able to meet convincingly surprise lines as well as the topical main lines by using the analysis included, and at the same time understand and solve transpositional problems.