An Opening Repertoire for Black - Marovic & Parma

A traditional opening repertoire book is one that gives the player a complete recipe for emerging from the opening as both White or Black with a playable position. Marovic and Parma follows that pattern, but gives two Black systems in response to White’s opening, one solid system, and one sharper system for playing for a win. For instance, against 1. d4 the authors offer a solid Queen’s Gambit Declined, or a Modern Benoni / King’s Indian setup, and against 1. e4 the choice is a French Defence or Pirc.

It also covers Black systems for facing the more off-beat Nimzowitsch/Larsen (1 …e5, following the famous Larsen-Spassky game) and the Bird’s opening (the natural 1… d5 and a Queen’s Gambit style setup).

Against 1. d4 and English Opening setups, the book provides … c5 King’s Indian Defence systems with a delayed Modern Benoni when Black has compensation for White’s Nf3-d2-c4 re-positioning. In rejecting Black’s thematic … exd5 transposing into a Modern Benoni, Marovic claims that White’s pawn-push e5 is more dangerous than Black’s thematic …b5 thrust. He concludes that Black’s tactical blows are possible because of mistakes by White.

Marovic notes that opening book analysis tends to stop just before when it should have started. He solves this issue in opening repertoire for black by picking games that are relevant and demonstrate the strategic plan, recommended moves are tied to those strategic plans.

On playing the French as Black, Marovic recommends the open 3… c5 against the Tarrasch, heavily influenced by the 1978 Karpov - Korchnoi match. Against 3. Nc3 Marovic opts for the Winawer, through the mainlines, but bailing out of the Irrational system with kingside castling.

Title

An Opening Repertoire for Black

ISBN

0713410345

Author(s)

Marovic, Drazen
Palma, Bruno

Publisher

B.T. Batsford Ltd

Year

1978