Originally posted by Shallow Blue
No, his opening theory series. 12 parts, well written, but opening theory has progressed rather since then.
Richard
Ouch!
I wish you had never said that Blue.
There is now confusion.
You were talking about Euwe's opening series being out of date
and not his Chess Master series whcih will never be dated.
Some of the lads on here are so opening orientated that any chance
of getting them to study or read something like
Chess Master v Chess Amatuer
(the best of the bunch in my opinion) has just gone.
In that book although he mentions the 'Theory' of openings all he
really does is show the spirit of the opening and a handful of traps
well worth knowing. Which is really all one needs.
I don't think there is any side line he suggests that has been totally refuted
and anyway the book is not about openings.
Infact he shows games where the Amatuer player has played book moves
gets himself into a reasonable position he cannot handle and gets bounced.
The 25 games are beautiful easy to understand examples of how a
stronger player knocks over a weaker player even when the weaker
player plays what seems are logical moves.
The book was not translated. Euwe and Meiden wrote this book
in English Descriptive notation.
The Dutch version was translated from the English version. 😉
But alas I fear the damage has been done.
These guys won't touch anything that is 20 years old.
The brain washing has been so succesful on the depandacy on openings
(It's makes GM's money so they keep it going).
That they will recoil in horror if you drop this in their lap.
"Where is the bit that will make me win games without any effort?"
The title of this thread sucked them in like moths to a flame. 🙂
I like Holland.
Years ago I was playing chess in a bar in Den Helga and because
I knew of and could pronounce the name of Euwe correctly I pulled.