Sturt: The Modernized Bird’s Opening SN_required false won the Best Instructional Book

won the Best Instructional Book Award of the Chess Journalists of America (CJA)

Der Autor lässt den Leser nicht nur an seinen Partien teilhaben

- und verschiedene Indizes

His passion for chess tactics can be seen in several books

I discovered how venomous this opening was when I was trying to find a way to play against it with black

Sturt: The Modernized Bird’s Opening SN_required false won the Best Instructional BookDein berraschungsrepertoire gegen unvorbereitete Gegner Birds Opening is currently in that goldilocks zone of the great arbitrages in life. The majority of chess players have dismissed it overlooking its inherent value and this allows for adopters of the Bird to take advantage of this asymmetry. As of this writing, it is played 9% of the time in online databases and this drops to 2% (!) in the masters database of OTB games. For reference in the OTB