Kotronias/Tzermiadianos, Beating the Petroff

The choice of World Champions, used by Karpov and Anand, the Petroff is one of the most solid and popular defences to 1.e4. This is a repertoire chess book providing an attacking arsenal for White players faced with this challenging defence, including sections on both 'Ideas and Manoeuvres' and 'Illustrative Games'.

Contains many new ideas and theoretical innovations from the author s private library, developed extensively in the past two years, together with a wealth of notable and fully annotated games from the International competitions.

The authors treat all lines in a scientific manner, including sidelines. White will thus be able to meet convincingly surprise lines as well as the topical main lines by using the analysis included, and at the same time understand and solve transpositional problems.