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Attacking the Spanish and Build up Your Chess 3 will be at our warehouse on the 15th of July. This means that they will be available in most shops over the following weekend, or on the following Monday. As always, it will take some time for the books to reach Amazon. The delay is intentional,
Attacking the Spanish (Brunello) and Build up Your Chess 3 (Yusupov) Read Post »
I recently spotted an extreme example of the popularity of the Slav and Semi-Slav variations. I was looking at Magnus Carlsen’s games with White after 1.d4 d5 2.c4. Now there are several solid moves (such as 2…e6 or 2…dxc4) and many off-beat lines (for example, 2…Nc6 or 2…e5) but between the start of 2008 and
The Fashionable Slavs Read Post »
Sabino Brunello’s first book, Attacking the Spanish, is getting ever nearer to ready. This started me thinking about the Schliemann variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5), one of three lines the book covers, with the Marshall and the Gajewski. For decades most GM’s believed that the Schliemann was unsound, but in the last few
Reputations: the Schliemann Read Post »
1.d4 d4 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Be4 7.f3 Bg6 8.Qb3 This is a line recommended by Boris Avrukh in Grandmaster Repertoire 1: 1.d4. The usual replies are 8…Qb6 and 8…Qc7. In January this year Sweden’s No.1, Tiger Hillarp Persson, introduced a stunning new idea: 8…b5!!? Last month, in a training
Tiger’s Novelty in the Slav vs. Avrukh’s 1.d4 Read Post »
Boris has written a bit about GM Repertoire 1 at his site. Visit it at: http://avrukhboris.wordpress.com/my-first-book/
Boris Avrukh on 1.d4 on his own blog Read Post »
Although not individually, this time… We have promised to recommend people to go to http://avrukhboris.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/we-are-the-champions/ if they are looking for top training from one of the best players in the world, Boris Avrukh. There you will also find the story behind the headline. Jacob
Boris Avrukh Israeli Champion Read Post »
Tuesday we finally changed website provider, giving us a chance to change some information on the site that had grown old – as for example expected publishing dates. This also brings about the chance for creating a newsletter again, something we have been missing for a while. We would use this to announce our new
Publishing Schedule for Summer 2009 Read Post »