Igor Lysyj, Roman Ovetchkin: The Hedgehog vs. the English / Reti

Chess Stars, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-619-7188-13-4, 444 Seiten, 2017.

In the last five years we have been observing a noticeable trend of the chess elite to evade the warn off central pawns moves 1.e4 and 2.d4 in favour of 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. Naturally, lower ranked players eagerly followed in the leader's footsteps - indeed not only Carlsen and Kramnik tired of struggling against the Berlin wall or exhausting themselves in futile attempts to refute the Gruenfeld.
This book offers to meet the new challenges to Black by building an English Hedgehog formation. The authors not only recommend a contemporary move order after the ditch has been set, but they also explain how to reach this goal since White's first moves. The book is all the more convincing as it is based on the successful practical experience of one of the authors.

Igor Lysyi is an international grandmaster. He won many times the students' championships and the Russia Universiades, both as an individual and as a member of the team of the Ural University.

He participated in the team of Russia which won the World Students' Championship in 2008. He was the winner of numerous international chess tournaments.

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