John Cox

Crear y mantener actualizado un buen repertorio de aperturas puede resultar una tarea muy ardua, ya que el ajedrez ofrece un enorme número de posibles líneas. Los jugadores inexpertos suelen sentir la fuerte tentacion de adoptar unicamente lineas azarosas con el fin de confundir al rival de turno, aunque este enfoque solo puede dar resultado a corto plazo. A medida que el jugador progrese, se enfrentara a rivales cada vez mas fuertes, y las lineas que antes le parecian satisfactorias no resistiran ya el escrutinio de adversarios curtidos. La consecuencia es que el jugador se encontrara de nuevo en el punto de partida y sin armas de apertura adecuadas. En Aprenda aperturas Gane con 1.d4!, John Cox resuelve este eterno problema, aportando al lector un repertorio fuerte y fiable para las piezas blancas basado en la popular jugada 1.d4. Las lineas aqui recomendadas han resistido el paso del tiempo y son regularmente empleadas por los Grandes Maestros. Estudiar este libro le dara confianza para plantear estas variantes contra jugadores de todos los niveles, y le permitira disponer durante muchos años de un solido arsenal de aperturas. El libro responde a las caracteristicas de la coleccion Aprenda aperturas, con numerosas notas, consejos y advertencias, a fin de llamar la atencion del lector sobre aspectos esenciales del contenido. John Cox es maestro internacional de ajedrez. Fue campeon juvenil britanico. Otros libros suyos, como Alekhine Defence y Dealing with d4 Deviations lo han confirmado como un excelente autor de ajedrez.

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 Queens Gambit or play the Nimzo-Indian, Queens 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 Whites 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 Whites options Written by an openings expert Ideal for club and tournament players

Building and maintaining an opening repertoire can be a demanding task -- for a start there are an enormous number of different lines to choose from. Theres a strong temptation amongst beginners and improving players to opt solely for tricky lines in order to snare unsuspecting opponents, but this approach has only short-term value. As players improve and their opponents become stronger, very often these crafty lines dont stand up to close scrutiny, and suddenly they back to square one with no suitable opening weapons. In Starting Out with 1 e4! and Starting Out with 1 d4! Neil McDonald and John Cox solve this perennial problem by providing the reader with a strong and trustworthy repertoire with the white pieces based on the popular opening moves 1 e4 and 1 d4. The recommended lines given here have stood the test of time and are regularly employed by Grandmasters. Reading these books will give players the confidence to play these variations against all strengths of player and provides them with reliable opening armoury for years to come. These books are written in Everyman Chesss distinctive Starting Out style, with plenty of notes, tips, and warnings throughout to help the aspiring player. Grandmaster-style opening repertoires Written by opening experts Ideal for improving players English Grandmaster Neil McDonald is an experienced and successful player on the international chess circuit. He is a respected chess coach, who has trained many of Englands strongest junior players. McDonald is also a talented chess writer and has many outstanding works to his name. Earlier Everyman Chess books include Concise Chess Openings and Starting Out: The Dutch Defence. John Cox is a FIDE Master and a former junior international and British Junior Champion. Previous works for Everyman Chess include Starting Out: Alekhines Defence and Dealing with d4 Deviations. Other Books in Series Starting Out with 1 d4!

How can we describe, how can an artist paint, the aurora borealis? We of temperate climates are not strangers to the phenomena; we know something of the arcs and radiating streaks of various-colored light which frequently adorn our northern skies; and we are occasionally permitted to witness exhibitions in which the whole heavens shine with their marvelous glow. Yet travelers from the far North say that we can have no conception of the wonderful splendor of the phenomena as witnessed within the Polar Circle, and that nothing but the actual sight can convey an adequate idea of it.The aurora borealis was also well known to the ancients...... There is undeniable fascination about a theory which includes within its sweep the time-honored problems of astronomy connected with comets tails and the reason why they point away from the sun; the solar prominences and the corona; the source of the light by which the nebul shine; the origin and structure of meteor-swarms; and the aurora borealis; besides solving incidentally half a dozen minor outstanding mysteries of the heavens.