Grandmaster Gambits 1.e4 - Richard Palliser & Simon Williams

Are you bored with playing it safe in the opening? Had enough of developing your pieces sensibly, aiming to control the centre and getting your king castled? Do you yearn to tear the opposition apart in the style of the great 19th century masters? Then Grandmaster Gambits 1 e4 is the book for you!
The highly successful writing duo of Richard Palliser and Simon (GingerGM) Williams have teamed up again to create a repertoire based on jettisoning a pawn (and often a whole lot more) very early on. Whatever opening your opponent favours against 1 e4, the authors have a dynamic gambiteering counter which will throw them onto their own resources...
Foreword
This book continues the collaboration between Chessable and Everyman Chess, a
collaboration that makes sure chess lovers can enjoy learning their favourite opening in
their favourite format, be that with Chessable’s videos and MoveTrainer, or via good, old
paper format.
The idea of Grandmaster Gambits came to me a long time ago. I wanted to create a
super-exciting and aggressive repertoire that would hold up to the test of theory.
Throughout my chess career I have experimented with interesting and novel gambit ideas,
and it is now time to share those ideas with the reader.
This project only became possible thanks to Richard Palliser. It is one thing having an
idea but the hardest task is always implementing that idea. Richard put a lot of
painstakingly hard work into taking some of my more outrageous concepts and making
them playable. His opening theory work is something quite special and I must thank him
for making this project possible.
I hope you digest the information in these pages with both the exploration and rigour
they deserve, beginning by learning the key ideas from the introductory games and the
‘Kickstarter’ outline of the repertoire, ahead of gradually delving deeper as you deem fit.
The opening ideas are meant to be super aggressive, giving you the initiative from
move one after 1 e4, often surprising your opponent and
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