Hello!
I have bought Nunn's Chess Openning book. The authors is John Nunn,
Graham Burgess
John Emms
and Joe Gallagher.
I have a problem , I don't understand how to read some of the thinks for exempel.
Page 33 nr 21 7.Knight e1 then I try to locate moves 1 to 6 then try move 7.
I'ts not correct. It's on other pages to, how does this book work.
Please some help
Bigfoot68

Bigfoot68 wrote:
I have bought Nunn's Chess Openning book. The authors is John Nunn,
Graham Burgess John Emms and Joe Gallagher. I have a problem , I don't
understand how to read some of the thinks

At the top of the page is the start of the line, e.g., `1.e4 e5 2.Nf3.'
The rest of the page is set up as a table like this:

| 2 3 4
---+------------------
1. | Bc4 O-O
| Nc6 Bc5 Nf6
2. | Nc3
| Nf6
3. | Nc3
| d6[1] Nf6 (where I've used square brackets for footnotes)

Footnotes:

1. 2... f6?? 3.Nxe5!?

The three lines here a

1) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6
2) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3
3) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6
3.1) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6?? 3,Nxe5!?

You read the table like this. Every line (which I mean in the chess
sense: a sequence of moves) starts with the moves given at the top of the
page. Every row of the table that starts at the left-hand edge is a
continuation of the line at the top of the page (lines 1 and 3 in the
example). Every row that doesn't start at the left-hand edge is an
alternative to the previous row that gave a move starting at that point.
For example, line in the table is an alternative to Black's third move in
line 1. Less common alternatives and transpositions are given as
footnotes. The use of boldface in the footnotes is explained in the
introduction to the book, which also explains how the tables work, as I
recall.


Dave.

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Thanks for your help. Good luck with your chess games
Bigfoot68