MODERN CHESS DEFENSE - Dejan Nestorovic and Nikola Nestorovic

MODERN CHESS DEFENSE - Learn to Defend and Strike Back with Venom

by IM Dejan Nestorovic and GM Nikola Nestorovic

Informant Publishing 2025, 280 pages

The book about defense is created as an endeavor to help players who struggle with this very difficult set of chess skills.

How to organize a proper defense?

How to parry opponent’s threats and thwart his plans?

How to create a strong counter-attack?

The book contains detailed examples and advice on:

• Good Defense - Draw conclusions about how the best players think when solving the problems of defense in practical play
• Poor Defense - Examples of incorrect defense
• The King - Modern ways of king evacuation and safeguarding the monarch.
• Defense in in critical moments
• Defense in inferior endgames – How to prolong the struggle and put stubborn resistance
• Defensive skills in modern chess openings

Finally, the book ends with 50 demanding exercises that should reenforce the knowledge you have gathered after a careful study of all examples.