Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps

In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master and game strategist for Netflix's The Queen's Gambit Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.

Of the three traditional phases of chess play-the opening, the middle-game and the endgame-the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening ins...