Dealing with d4 Deviations

by John Cox

This book fills an enormous void in chess literature. There are a countless number of players who are very happy to defend the black side of the Queen's Gambit or play the Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Bogo-Indian, or Benoni. However, more often than not they have been forced to muddle their way through a whole variety of annoying sidelines White has at his or her disposal, including the dreaded Trompowsky, the tricky Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and the tiresome Colle Variation. Now finally, help is at hand! In this unique book John Cox reveals everything Black players need to know about all of White's offbeat tries, presenting Black with no-nonsense answers to every white option. Readers will be fully armed to deal with anything that White can throw at them. In fact, they will have all the White players running back to the main lines!

>Covers all of White's options
>Written by an openings expert
>Ideal for club and tournament players

Genres: Chess

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

John Cox (born 22/5/1962) is a British chess player. He earned the title of International Master earned in 2005.

Cox has written a number of well-received chess books, and he has contributed to the New in Chess yearbooks.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Steven]

Actually an immensely useful book because these "deviations" appear all too frequently in club play. Cox does a good job of weaving through the landmines if white avoids the queens gambit and its declined variations. So if you find these openings annoying from the black side, this book will maybe keep your from imploding in the first six moves.