Double Fianchetto - the Ultimate Workbook

The main part of the book is divided into exercises and solutions, with 110positions taken from double fianchetto games. I have divided the exercisesinto chapters, with each chapter featuring games by players who have deployedthe double fianchetto quite often. You will find a lot of typical motifsused by these players.In this part you will also detect a few examples of play by the legendaryGerman IM Podzielny, who died in the summer of 2019 at the legendarychess age of 64. My heart urged me to write something about him, becauseI knew him for a long time and he was a very special person.The difficulty level ranges from very easy through to very tough, but I won'tgive points for the solutions. The ideas vary from tactics to important strategicsubtleties. The reader decides how honestly he or she tries to solvethese exercises. It is also not necessary to solve all of them, but it is definitely important to think about these positions and take your time. The readershould gain an impression of the many ideas and structures which are possiblein the double fianchetto positions.Sometimes you will find the complete games in the solutions section, butsometimes you will only fi nd the most important moves up to a certainpoint, because the rest would be irrelevant to the topic. In some solutionsI also give the first moves, because I guess that it would be very interestingto know which move order was played to reach the positions in question. GM Daniel Hausrath, October 2021