For many chess-players, opening study is pure hard work. It is difficult to know what is important and what is not, and when specific knowledge is vital, or when a more general understanding is sufficient. Tragically once the opening is over, a player is puzzled what plan to follow, or even understand why his pieces are on the squares on which they sit.

Our author GM Dariusz Swiercz, continued in the second Volume of his series, and explains in a methodological way how to solve these issues when White proceeds with 3.Nf3 and g3.

He picked some aggressive options with the Ragozin and brings the ever-popular Catalan to a stand still. Any chess player being Black would be much interested to find out how Dariusz decided on his final choices. We are convinced you won't be disappointed with his second and final volume of this series.

* A repertoire for Black providing all answers to White's options.
* Paced with exciting games, original ideas and analysis.
* Thorough and up-to-date coverage of one of the most topical openings.
* Positional motivated lines, but none the less never forgetting the needed dynamics.
* Aggressive ideas to tackle head-on white's solid set-ups.


About the Author
Dariusz Swiercz was born in 1994 in Tarnowskie Gory, Poland. His grandfather taught him to play chess at the age of three. During his junior career he won numerous National Championships as well as several European and World Championship medals. His highest successes include the bronze medal in 2010 at the World U20 Championship (Chotowa, Poland), gold medal in 2011 at the World U20 Championship (Chennai, India) and another gold medal in 2012 at the World U18 Championship (Maribor, Slovenia). He is one of the youngest to receive the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years and 7 months. In 2016 he won the third edition of the "Millionaire Chess" held in Las Vegas, USA. Since 2018 he has represented the United States. This is his fourth book for Thinkers Publishing, after the several masterpieces he wrote The Modernized Ruy Lopez, two volume edition from 2021 and Volume 1 in 2022 of the same series. Dariusz currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.


Book Information
ISBN 9789464201932
Author Dariusz Swiercz
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint Thinkers Publishing
Publisher Thinkers Publishing