Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated buchpakete Williams' recommendations in the French

Williams' recommendations in the French are based on his own repertoire which he has successfully employed at Grandmaster level

which means we needn't be afraid that we will already have met the combinations in other sources - they will all be unique and therefore I can truly recommend this book to everyone

You may not be able to replicate their dazzling-deep calculations

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His best-seller Timman's Titans won the English Chess Federation's Book of the Year award in 2017

Schuyler: Your Opponent is overrated buchpakete Williams' recommendations in the FrenchWhich opening does better in practice: the wild, unsound and refuted Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5) or the solid Philidor Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6)? As James Schuyler points out, referring to the definitive Megabase, the Latvian Gambit scores higher. How can such a discredited opening (and the same story is repeated with other unsound openings) do so well? The point is that playing like this throws the opponent off balance, makes them anxious and