SHAW - The King´s Gambit

In this long-awaited book Grandmaster John Shaw provides you with a full repertoire of the King´s Gambit such as it is in 2013! This allows you to avoid some of the traps and pits out there that White players have fallen into, because they followed incorrect theory.

This book comes with 680 pages of analysis, explanations, and sample games - more than enough to make you ready for sharp battles and storming victories. 

Yet, it´s not all about tactics, and in many lines White would even enter a queenless middlegame, sometimes being a pawn down - but still retain the better position. If you know how to play it... Thus: if you are looking for a classical opening AND a surprise bonus (hardly to happen in the Spanish or Italian), this is the right choice for you.

Most Black players have some old-fashioned and sketchy knowledge of how to counter 2. f4!, and many have fallen victim of decisive play from White. Most frequently the play something like the Falkbeer Counter-Gambit and are sure of basically having equalised, while they do in fact not understand the positions on the board. Me too I play the King´s Gambit on a regular basis, and I have beaten quite some strong opponents with it...The most recent book of Grandmaster John Shaw on the King´s Gambit, comprising 680 pages of analysis, explanations, and sample games.