59 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Supplemental material by Paul Janicki. First edition.

The Polish Defense is the name commonly given to one of several sequences of chess opening moves characterized by an early ...b5 by Black. The name "Polish Defense" is given by analogy to the Polish Opening (ECO A40), 1.b4. The original line was1. d4 b5. as played by Alexander Wagner, a Polish player and openings analyst, against Kuhn in the 1913 Swiss Correspondence Championship. Wagner published an analysis of the opening in Deutsches Wochenschach in 1914, when he was living in Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b5 and other variants where Black delays playing ...b5 until the second or third move, which are sometimes called the Polish Defense Deferred.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BSC0278
Title: The Polish Defense
Author: Thomas Kapitaniak
Book Condition: Used - Very good to fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0931462169
ISBN 13: 9780931462160
Publisher: Chess Enterprises
Place of Publication: Moon Township, PA
Date Published: 1996
Pages: 59 pages with diagrams and index
Size: Octavo
Keywords: Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs

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