Update: I have just heard from the printer that printing is going to be slightly slower than hoped. For the two Playing 1.e4 books – French Defence & Sicilian Sidelines and Sicilian Main Lines – plus Jaan Ehlvest’s Grandmaster Opening Preparation, the publication date will be May 30th. This is a week later than recently announced. Apologies for the delay.
An excerpt of Playing 1.e4 – French Defence & Sicilian Sidelines is now available at the following link.
I would be most interested to know what you think, but right now there is another book I need to finish.
This book looks very good but I would love to access page 380 to see what’s covered in the Sicilian sidelines.
Counting down… This is going to be a long summer 🙂 .
Any chance of an index?
Any plan to sell your books via chessable? I love your books and almost exclusively use quality chess books so I own a hardcover copy of most of your books, the forword chess app copy for travel but now with the chessable training formula I would love to purchase them all again so that I might actually train thru all of them properly
In 1983 when Dutch author Tim Krabbé saw the Yarosh study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babson_task in Soviet publication 64, he records that the realisation that somebody had at last solved the Babson task had the effect upon him as if he had “… opened a newspaper and seen the headline ‘Purpose Of Life Discovered’.”
Well I’ve lived to see Playing 1.e4.
I’m sure Krabbé checked the solution just to make sure- when I get the physical copies of 1.e4 in my hand I can now die happy.
FINALLY! How long have we waited JUST for a small excerpt?
That being said, I can’t wait for the books to be published! 😀
@jerome
@mn
We will likely update the excerpt with an abridged variation index – in similar style to what we did with Avrukh’s GM Repertoire 2A – King’s Indian and Grunfeld. But right now we are concentrating on getting the books exactly as we want them.
You really need to get out more!
@John Shaw Understandable, thanks for the reply.
I Am very curious What will be move 6 in the so called guimard variation versus the tarash french
My prediction is 6 Nb3
@Franck steenbekkers
I did the main analysis there. Everything is playable on some level, but this line is only playable for Black in one way and that way is very unpleasant for him as well. I will consider this one sort of busted.
When Will the exerpt of the Sicilian book be published
@Franck steenbekkers
A few days
Any news on the woodpecker
@kutlu hasan
When finishing Playing 1.e4 today, John will take an unscheduled week or so off, for the first time since the 2016 Olympiad, and then get right on it.
For me most interesting what will be suggested against 3…Be7. Tiviakov, on his chessbase DVD some years ago, said he couldn’t find a really promising way for White.
To me the decisive factor to buy this book is the chosen variation for the Najdorf
6.f3
Waiting for the book in stores
Do you have a planned date for the excerpt of “Grandmaster Opening Preparation by Jaan Ehlvest”, I’m curious about it.
Thx
@Fer
Read my post, up in a few minutes…
https://twitter.com/anishgiri/status/993466019678228482/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F2700chess.com%2F
Very disappointed John went for the dull 5.Nf3 line instead of this obvious masterstroke
Fully expecting 1.e4 c5 2. g4!? analysis running to 400 pages in the second volume…