Bamboozle your Opponents with 1.g3, Chess Opening on DVD

Bamboozle your Opponents with 1.g3Chess Opening Opening a game with 1.g3 appears rather quiet and unpretentious, yet many of the greatest players in history have chosen to play this way. Bent Larsen, Victor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein and Pal Benko have all wielded this move with considerable success while in more recent times Mikhail Gurevich has been using it highly effectively.The idea behind this opening is to leave White with the greatest possible flexibility for his pieces and center pawns and indeed the game can transpose into openings as diverse as the Closed Sicilian, the Kingā¬"s Indian Defense and the Catalan Opening. Yet White can also choose to tread new ground by adopting formations such as a reversed Leningrad Dutch, reversed Alekhine's Defense or even a reversed Pirc or Modern Defense. All of these formations contain far more poison with White's extra tempo. On this DVD Davies explains key concepts and ideas behind these unique approaches, while also showing how White can