Black Knight Repertoire 1.e4 Nc6

By Marek Soszynski

Chess players! Are you having trouble facing 1.e4? Is your Spanish too sticky and your Sicilian too sickly? Wrongfoot White with the Nimzowitsch Defence. Correspondence Chess Master and experienced author Marek Soszynski analyses 1.e4 Nc6 in detail, including sidelines and novelties, to give you a complete deviant repertoire against White's most popular first move.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marek Soszynski
• Release date: Feb 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224966516

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Black Knight Repertoire

1.e4 Nc6

CCM Marek Soszynski MPHIL

MarekMedia

2024

Table Of Contents

Signs & Symbols, etc.

About the Author

Author’s Chess Publications

Preface

ONE — 1.e4 Nc6

TWO — 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 without 4.Nc3

THREE — 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3

FOUR — 2.d4 e5 without 3.d5

FIVE — 2.d4 e5 3.d5 Nce7

SIX — Other second moves by White

Selected Bibliography

+- White is winning

+/- White is clearly better

+/= White is slightly better

= Equal position

=/+ Black is slightly better

-/+ Black is clearly better

-+ Black is winning

~ Unclear position

~/= With compensation

# Checkmate (when suffixed to a move)

!! Excellent move

! Good move

!? Interesting move

?! Dubious or misguided move

? Poor or mistaken move

?? Bad move or blunder

corr Correspondence game

FIDE International Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs)

GM Grandmaster

ICCF International Correspondence Chess Federation

IM International Master

NN Player not known or anonymised

The author is a self-styled Doublemaster — a Master of Philosophy (MPHIL awarded 2004 by the University of Birmingham) and a Correspondence Chess Master (CCM awarded 2020 by the ICCF as recognised by FIDE). He has an ICCF rating of over 2300. His chess publications are listed below; he also writes on philosophy and aesthetics. He lives in the city where he was born, Birmingham, in the United Kingdom.

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2005. The Fearsome Four Pawns Attack (Milford: Russell Enterprises) ISBN: 1888690275

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2009. 1.b4 Theory & Practice of the Sokolsky Opening (Milford: Russell Enterprises) ISBN: 9781888690651

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2018. Sabotaging the Sicilian, French & Caro-Kann with 2.b3 (Milford: Russell Enterprises) ISBN: 9781941270837, 9781941270844

Konikowski, Jerzy, and Marek Soszynski. 2022. The Polish Defense: Systems for Black Based on ...b5 (Portsmouth: Russell Enterprises) ISBN: 9781949859546, 9781949859539

Przewoznik, Jan, and Marek Soszynski. 2001. How to Think in Chess (Milford: Russell Enterprises) ISBN: 1888690100

Przewoznik, Jan, and Marek Soszynski, trans. by Nadine Sickermann. 2004. Como pensar em xadrez (Rio de Janeiro: Ciencia Moderna) ISBN: 857393302X

Soszynski, Marek. 2018. The Great Reshevsky: Chess Prodigy and Old Warrior (Forward Chess)

Soszynski, Marek. 2020. The Centre Game Re-examined: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9781393536963

Soszynski, Marek. 2022a. The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with 2...Nf6: A Chess Repertoire for Black (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798201257972

Soszynski, Marek. 2022b. The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with Qd6 and g6 (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798215268452

Soszynski, Marek. 2023a. The Scandinavian Defence: Winning with 2...Nf6: A Chess Repertoire for Black (Revised Edition) (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798215711675

Soszynski, Marek. 2023b. Scotch the Scotch: Lolli Variation (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798223615316

Soszynski, Marek. 2023c. Bird’s Defence Against the Ruy Lopez (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798223886365

Soszynski, Marek. 2023d. Rare and Ruthless Reshevsky (MarekMedia) ISBN: 9798223380665

Soszynski, Marek. 2024. Double Trouble Scandinavian Style: Two Repertoires for Black (Portsmouth: Russell Enterprises)