Play the Catalan - Davies "Stone Chess Sets" and you're viewing my hand

and you're viewing my hand sculpted #16 PicoDragon

either while analyzing some master game or when entering your own games in your own games database

players of all standards can quickly and confidently begin to play the Ruy Lopez Exchange with either color in their own games

Board not included

Play the Catalan - Davies "Stone Chess Sets" and you're viewing my handThe Catalan is a sophisticated opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players on occasion making it look like a forced win for White! In this book, Grandmaster Nigel Davies presents a major study of this important opening. Using illustrative games