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The KibitzerTim Harding [Find us on Facebook.] Translate this page Play through and download the games from ChessCafe.com in the ChessBase Game Viewer. Time to Change Your Opening Repertoire? I said I would write about books this month, and so I shall, but so many have arrived that it is not possible to examine them all. Since the summer is the time for preparing new openings for next season, I shall deal with openings books this month and leave the others for another column later in the year. If you were thinking of changing your opening repertoire, using new books that your opponents probably have not seen, there has never been such a wide choice. Part of the fun of chess for many amateurs is playing gambits, but the new book by Irish IM Sam Collins is designed to wean you off them – or help you to refute them if you are the defender. In Gambit Busters (Everyman Chess, US $26.95, Chesscafe Price: $19.95) he begins by admitting he never liked facing gambits, which are available in almost every opening, but he has learned to face his fear and conquer it. After showing a couple of horrible losses early on, he does show some wins later in the book. One disappointment was that the book contains no examples of either the Najdorf Sicilian Poisoned Pawn, or the From Gambit against Bird's Opening, 1 f4 e5!?. To compensate, he gives six examples of the Evans Gambit, to which I have devoted far too many hours of my life. Here is Sam playing against it. Chris Baker – Sam Collins England (Four Nations Chess League), 2009 Evans Gambit [C52] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 b4 Bxb4 As Collins writes, "4...Bb6 is quite playable," to which I add: rather drawish. 5 c3 |