Beating the Hedgehog System: Using a Space Advantage in the Chess Opening

By: Hanna Ivan-Gal and Laszlo Hazai

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Synopsis: Do you struggle to score against the Hedgehog and find it difficult to break the Black fortress? This opening manual, which could double as a positional middlegame manual, will show you how White can use a space advantage in this chess opening with maximum results.The Hedgehog System, a personal favourite of many club players, is important to understand for all White players as the positions are near-universal. They can arise from the English Opening, the Nimzo-Indian and Queen&’s Indian Defences and the Sicilian Opening. The Hedgehog is a flexible defence as Black can undermine your centre with …b6-b5 or …d6-d5. Black can attack your kingside dark squares with a queen-and-bishop battery or go after your king by launching the g-pawn.That&’s why Beating The Hedgehog System focuses on the most airtight variations, taking the sting out of Black&’s counterplay and making White&’s space advantage count. You will learn the general strategies but also essential features such as:· how to get the ideal queenside formation versus the Hedgehog · how to use x-rays and little tactics to stop Black&’s …d6-d5 break · how to provoke Black&’s e-pawn to move to e5· when to push your a-pawn to the fourth rank… and when to hold it backIncluded are fifteen model games and thirty strategy and tactics exercises to fine-tune your feel for this Opening. This book has been adapted from the MoveTrainer® and video Chessable course with the same name.