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Niggemann store claims Shaw’s “Playing 1e4 Sicilian and French” to be out on 08.12.2017 ??
@LE BRUIT QUI COURT
They always put up a random date. February would be my extremely optimistic guess.
Out in February to mark 15 years of QC?
@Jacob Aagaard
I used to be 1.e4 player, but nevertheless I bought Shaw’s books on King’s Gambit and “Playing 1.e4 – Caro-Kann, 1…e5 & Minor Lines”, looking forward to his volume 2 🙂 Please don’t forget to check lines with the second ed of Villa’s “Dismantling the Sicilian”, which was published few days ago…
As already mentioned earlier, my choice for your next publishing project would be “Playing 1.c4 A guide for WHITE” written by Ntrilis 🙂
@Thomas
We were founded April 1st 2004.
It must be extremly difficult for John to finish his book on the French and Sicilian for White – every day new games, every week a new book/theory article you have to consider … and mind boggling move order possibilities in the classical french … good luck!
@Jacob Aagaard
15 months or 17 months – not much of a difference.
@Tournesol
Yes. Luckily for John, he will be recommending the French Tarrasch for white so he won’t need to consider those mind boggling move order possibilities in the Classical French…
James
@James2
I’m anxious to see what John has in store against Nikos’ and Jacob’s 3…c5! I thought their lines in Playing the French were pretty convincing, but who knows?
@Ray
Right, not to forget Luther’s chapter on Qd5: in his “Chess Reformation”. Qd7 instead of Qd6 (with tons of games) is also quite modern staff… but here he may find something, at least I hope so.
btw, how do you know it will be Nd2?
Not wishing to take John and of the dungeon, and of course not expecting a rewrite of the book on here, I’ve been wondering for a while if John/Nikos had any comments on the game Jones-Kramnik from the Isle of Man where Kramnik seemed to take apart the Scotch recommendation against Ba6 lines in the playing e4 book with 11..Ne7. In the commentary afterwards Kramnik seemed (if I remember correctly) to say he thought the line was a load of tosh for white and was surprised there had been no focus on Ne7 (b31 in book does not consider at all).
Again just wondering if any light thoughts.
@Tournesol
QC have revealed this on this blog some years ago!
@Paul H
I will concentrate on working on the next book. Maybe when that is finished, I will have a look at what has happened to the Volume 1 repertoire in practice. But before then, your best hope is someone else.
IM KWGM has reviewed some games from the Asian First Friday October tournament (modelled on the First Sat tournaments in Hungary) and there are a number of references to QC books and repertoires, especially Nikos 1 e4 e5 book.
https://www.chessbase.in/news/Kevin_Goah_Wei_Ming_annotates_First_Friday
Perhaps Nikos may care to comment?
Hmm – am I wrong, or doesn’t Marin even mention the line 3.Nd2, when Kornev has a complete chapter on that line ?
I was hoping to see 4 h4 mentioned somewhere in Marin’s new Pirc book, but I couldn’t find any reference to it either.
James
Is there a more concrete date for Avrukh`s new book on King`s Indian and Gruenfeld.Thank you in advance.
What do you think about David cumming’s Opening Repertoire: The English? In use with E3 poison?
Jacob- can you pass on my thanks to Nikos for a great job on the 1d4 d5 book.
On a different tack is there any possibility of something on the Semi-tarrasch which seems to be the other line that Kramnik relies on.
That’s exactly what two I use I find they compliment each other really well
@Andrew Brett
Marin recently made a Chessbase DVD on that topic. While I do not know this exact DVD I was quite pleased with the quality delivered by Marin on a different DVD.
@weng nian
IM KWGM seems to have always a great knowledge of recent bibliography. This shows real passion in chess which i appreciate greatly!
I didn’t find a particular line i could comment on? Maybe you could be more specific if you have a question?
@Andrew Brett
The Semi-Tarrasch is as boring as it gets 🙂
Who would be the ultimate writer of the ” How to bore your opponent and win ” series ?
@Nikos Ntirlis I agree with Nikos. I read this and thought “What is weng nian talking about? There’s nothing to comment on!”
James
there’s a small comment on game 4 where he disagrees with nikos and says there is a small edge but not much else. He does give the impression I should buy the book though!
Now they’ve changed the date to 21.03.2018 (the last day of “Winter 17/18”)