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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:

009 1 Jeroen Bosch The SOS Files

018 2 John van der Wiel A Harmless Little Bishop Move

025 3 Jeroen Bosch Sicilian: the O'Kelly Variation

039 4 Glenn Flear Really Accepting the QGA

050 5 Friso Nijboer The Shirov Gambit versus the Philidor

057 6 Dorian Rogozenko Early Surprise in a Classical Nimzo

066 7 Adrian Mikhalchishin The Caro-Kann of Bukhuti Gurgenidze

070 8 Jeroen Bosch Bayonet Blow in the Bogo

076 9 Arthur Kogan Inspiration versus the Dragon

083 10 Jeroen Bosch Chasing the 'Trompowsky' Bishop

094 11 Dimitri Reinderman Edgy Knight against the Bird

103 12 Glenn Flear The Semi-Slav with 6.a3

116 13 Alexander Finkel Modern for Advanced Players

125 14 Jeroen Bosch Taimanov's Surprise Sac in the Kan

130 15 Adrian Mikhalchishin Anti-Grunfeld and Anti-Volga

134 16 Igor Glek & J.-O. Leconte French: the Gledhill Attack

138 17 Hikaru Nakamura Not Going for Scholar's Mate

143 18 Who is Who? Authors and their Subjects