The Scandinavian Defence is one of the most popular chess openings among amateur players, and it is easy to see why.
In 2018 he published the best-selling improvement guide The Chess Toolbox: Practical Techniques Everyone Should Know, also available as a NIC Interactive eBook and as a Chessable video course..
He is the author of the acclaimed \'What would you play?\' column in New In Chess magazine, aimed at helping Club players to improve their decision-making skills.
He is an experienced trainer of amateur players and has been the National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation.
About author(s): Thomas Willemze is an International Master from Holland.
As an experienced trainer he knows that discussing Club player\'s adventures are particularly instructive for his target group.
Willemze not just uses examples from the games of elite grandmasters.
This book presents everything you need to know to be fully prepared to meet 1.e4.
Pressuring the centre, improving your piece coordination, trading the right pieces and exploiting your opponent\'s weak points are all typical \'Scandinavian\' spin-offs that Thomas Willemze teaches you in his trademark lucid style.
Playing the Scandinavian teaches invaluable techniques that you can use in almost all of your other games.
And that\'s not even the end of the good news, as Thomas Willemze demonstrates.
To cap it all, Black gets a solid structure.
What\'s more, the Scandinavian requires only very little theoretical knowledge, so it has an extremely low Maintenance factor.
Black players immediately limit the opening theory they have to know because there is no way White can side-step Black\'s first move.
The Scandinavian Defence is one of the most popular chess openings among amateur players, and it is easy to see why
