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Comment il faut commencer une partie d'échecs

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Encouragé par le succès rencontré par son livre "Comment il ne faut pas jouer aux échecs" paru en 1931, Eugène Znosko-Barovsky se remit à l'ouvrage en 1933 en décidant cette fois de consacrer son talent de joueur d'échecs et de pédagogue au domaine des ouvertures d'échecs.

Tout comme dans sa précédente publication, l'objectif d'E. Znosko-Borovsky n'est pas de compiler des listes de coups, mais de proposer une approche fondée sur la compréhension plutôt que sur la mémorisation, eu égard à l'adage qui fit le succès de son livre précédent : "Les échecs sont un jeu de compréhension et non un jeu de mémoire".

Pour ce faire, E. Znosko-Borovsky va s'appliquer à mettre en perspective les ouvertures par rapport aux principes stratégiques fondamentaux. En un mot, il va s'efforcer de révéler les idées sous-jacentes aux différentes manières de débuter une partie d'échecs.

Ainsi, outre le fait d'être un manuel d'apprentissage des différentes ouvertures, le présent ouvrage d'E. Znosko-Borovsky est-il également un traité où le lecteur approfondira ses connaissances de la stratégie échiquéenne.

Cette édition augmentée, dont la traduction a été entièrement revue et enrichie de très nombreux diagrammes, met particulièrement en valeur la richesse pédagogique de l'oeuvre d'E. Znosko-Borovsky.

Un ouvrage particulièrement recommandé pour tout joueur dont le classement Elo est inférieur à 1900 points.

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1971

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32 reviews
June 3, 2020
At over 80 years old, you’re not going to become a grandmaster reading this book. But his logical way of showing how different openings build on each others moves from weak openings to stronger it’s quite accessible and good for the club player.
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August 6, 2025
Middling as a primer, great as a "spot check" for one's overall understanding of the game. This is definitely not the first chess book a beginner should read. For one, at that stage openings don't matter as much as other areas of their game. Too much emphasis on the opening will leave them helpless once the opening is over, and in such instances the one with better overall understanding will win. But I believe studying tricky openings like the Stafford is necessary as there are certain sequences in those openings that you likely wouldn't learn elsewhere. Also, theory has changed since this book was first published. Nowadays titled players (Grandmasters and such) are finding active and interesting tries in openings the author wrote off as "dull". This is with the help of modern engines.

It should be noted that not every opening is given equal attention. Analysis of the classical openings comprise the bulk of this book and sections about the more modern openings like the Sicilian are very, very short. Also, the moves are written in descriptive notation (P-K4 instead of e4), which modern readers might find frustrating to decipher.
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July 11, 2025
Brief introduction to different openings. I read my dad's copy from the 70s when I started learning chess.
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