Pierre-Laurent Paoli Author

French Grandmaster Christian Bauer is one of his country’s leading players. He is a former national champion and has represented France in numerous international team events. He has written many articles and books for several publishing houses: ‘Play 1…b6’ and ‘The Philidor Files’, ‘Play the Scandinavian’, Candidates Moves, The Modernized Nimzovitch Defense and The Modernized Alekhine Defense for Thinkers Publishing. Many of his books have been translated into other languages. This is his eleventh book, his sixth for Thinkers Publishing, and his third in the Modernized series. Pierre-Laurent Paoli began learning chess at a young age and started playing competitively around the age of seven. After two years of studying statistics at university, he decided to pursue a professional chess career at the age of twenty, starting with a rating of 2400.