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Secrets of Opening Surprises brings you a wide variety of unusual opening ideas. They may seem outrageous at first sight, but have proven to be perfectly playable.

An SOS deviates very early from the regular lines in a mainstream opening, usually even before move six! That is why it is so easy to actually bring the variation on the board. You will baffle your opponent without having studied large quantities of stuffy theory.

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Inhalt :

1 Jeroen Bosch: The SOS Files

2 Dorian Rogozenco: The Blumenfeld Gambit

3 Jeroen Bosch: The Lewis Gambit

4 Dimitri Reinderman: The Retreat Variation

5 Adrian Mikhalchishin: Steinitz's Anti-French

6 Arthur Kogan: Slav: the Bellon-Murey Variation

7 Jeroen Bosch: Slav: a Marshall Gambit of Sorts

8 Alexander Finkel: Queen's Fianchetto in the Alekhine

9 Igor Lysyj: Grünfeld Indian: Kruppa Variation

10 Igor Khenkin: SOS in a Flexible Caro-Kann

11 Sergey Tiviakov: Queen's Indian: Double Fianchetto

12 Adrian Mikhalchishin: Sicilian: Romanishin Variation

13 Jeroen Bosch: Modern Provocation

14 David Navara: Tricky Line vs the Slav

15 Alexander Finkel: Taking Chances in the Volga

16 Or Cohen: Petroff for Beginners

17 Jeroen Bosch: Winning Ugly in the Tarrasch