Dieu: The Modernized Trojan Knight 1.Nc3 (hardcover) CT this book is not for

this book is not for you

and many grandmasters have added it to their repertoire or played it occasionally in official games: Nakamura

The author was once again inspired in his selection by the special systems of several top players

I have found the hedgehog (either color) to be one of the most difficult positions to master

filtered out many motifs/topics and focused on attack techniques such as transformations

Dieu: The Modernized Trojan Knight 1.Nc3 (hardcover) CT this book is not forThe Modernized Trojan Knight 1. Nc3 a complete opening repertoire for White The idea of the move 1. Nc3 is to confuse the second player, as White plays a supposedly unambitious move to mislead Black. This is why we found the name "Trojan Horse" very appropriate for the move 1. Nc3, just as the gift from Ulysses to the Trojans appeared to be a tricky and poisoned gift. The appropriate term for chess will, therefore, be the Trojan Knight to refer to the