Play the Orangutan: 1.b4 Emanuel Lasker IM Kolosowski combines two decades

IM Kolosowski combines two decades of his own experience with the ideas of the top players from the past and presents delivering the most complete

It's an alternative universe with alternative rules

Ready to learn the secrets of one of the TRUE chess openings

the latter are never allowed to dominate

Grandmaster Lemos focuses on 6 recent games by Super-GMs to demonstrate how the best players in the world apply basic principles in the middlegame to achieve crushing attacks or long-term advantages to win games

Play the Orangutan: 1.b4 Emanuel Lasker IM Kolosowski combines two decadesThe Orangutan, 1. b4, is also known as the Sokolsky opening, respectively named by the endearing name given to the opening by grandmaster Savielly Tartakower in 1924 after a visit to the New York Central Park Zoo or the opening's primary researcher and practitioner, Alexei Sokolsky. The opening challenges normal conventions by launching an instant attack on Black's queenside right from the outset of the game and leads to an interesting game where both