Hansen: Play the Orangutan 1.b4! Schachtrainer Xie Jun is a Grandmaster

Xie Jun is a Grandmaster and was Women's World Champion from 1991 up to her fateful and controversial match with Zsuzsa Polgar in 1996

an expert in the French Defense

About the Book

Later chapters cover key aspects of opening strategy

Hansen: Play the Orangutan 1.b4! Schachtrainer Xie Jun is a GrandmasterA fresh, fun opening repertoire for White BOOM! How did the author take a supposedly harmless, and eccentric opening and score 70% in his games with it, including a massive 75% against grandmasters? He started playing the Orangutan and went from Orangutan curious to Orangutan devotee in a few months and as he explored the opening further, the results got better and better! In this book, the author delivers a complete repertoire starting with 1. b4, a