Ready-to-go chess opening ideas.

Readers of this series can ignore large areas of the ever expanding chess opening theory. They can concentrate on these surprising ideas, because SOS variations deviate very early from the regular lines in mainstream openings. Ideal for players who don’t have enough time to keep abreast with main line theory. Appears twice a year.

144 pages

a quick look at the SOS's in this issue

Contents:

1 Jeroen Bosch - The SOS Files

2 Ruben Felgaer - Meeting the Caro-Kann with 2.Ne2

3 Dimitri Reinderman - The Meszaros Variation of the Sicilian

4 Jeroen Bosch - SOS versus Anti-Berlin

5 Alexander Finkel - SOS versus the Paulsen

6 Mazé & Cornette - Nimzo-Indian with 6...Qe8!?

7 Arthur Kogan - The Budapest Gambit Can Still Surprise!

8 Jeroen Bosch - French Prophylaxis

9 Adrian Mikhalchishin - Caro-Kann: Dementiev Variation

10 Dimitri Reinderman - The Porcupine Variation

11 Jeroen Bosch - Gajewski’s Incredible Spanish Novelty

12 Arthur Kogan - Play the Spielmann Attack

13 Alexander Finkel - An Old Idea in the Modern Defence

14 Jeroen Bosch - A Modest Indian

15 Igor Glek - A 19th Century Weapon versus the French

16 Leonid Gofshtein - A Dynamic Ruy Lopez Surprise

17 Dorian Rogozenko - Kamsky’s ‘Spare’ Slav

18 Who is Who? - Authors and their Subjects

John Watson, The Week In Chess: “The most entertaining of books about openings that I know of. I recommend SOS because it is so much fun, to be sure, but also for its practical utility.”