Good news.

I sent off an email to John Shaw, since he is listed as the chief editor at Quality Chess. However, he and Aagaard are both playing in Dresden, so it may be a while before we hear back from them.

That is a bummer. I was hoping to get it over the holidays, but I would rather hold off until the problem is fixed.

That is very odd, because their books usually seem to be pretty high quality.

ookwelbekendalsemc wrote on 11/05/08 at 07:28:27:


That's true EMC, like Alias said: Questions of Modern Chess Theory (by Isaac Lipnitsky)

ookwelbekendalsemc wrote on 11/05/08 at 07:28:27:


The Lipnitsky book is called Questions of Modern Chess Theory

Hello:

The book won some awards. Here are a number of reviews:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/smcs.txt
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_secrets_modern_chess_st.html

There is also a sample that can be downloaded from Gambit with a TOCs at http://gambitbooks.com/pdfs/072Samp.pdf.
And of course, Jacob Aagaard take many opportunities in his books to strongly disagree with Watson.

Hopefully this is what you wanted.

Gerry

"Is it interesting, the Watson book? can someone give a link of discussion of this book?!"

Gerry1970 wrote on 10/20/08 at 01:46:39:


I had a holiday for a week, it reads easily.

I haven't read Watson (it's a shame   )but I can't imagine to call it out of date.

I think/feel the views Lipnitsky gives are good and still very good to use. You can adopt them still, maybe here and there with some little refinements. (Like most of the Nimzowitsj book is usable but I suspect this Lipnitsky book is even more usable).

Of course some opening lines are outdated, but the heart of the matter is not the given opening lines but how to handle an opening line etc.
After all of course it's not an openings book.

The book teach you a lot about positional chess!
I think it gives a good insight of how the Russians worked on chess in these days
Maybe an unknown teritority also for Mr.Watson. But I don't know because like said I haven't read his book.

Is it interesting, the Watson book? can someone give a link of discussion of this book?!

@LeeRoth, what this book covers? I will give the chapters:
Chapter 1.On the Opening
2:The Centre
3:The Centre and the Flanks
4:Conquering the Centre from the Flanks
5:Mobilizing the Pieces
6:Evaluating the Position
7:The Concrete Approach
8:From Critical Positions to Settled Positions
9.Positional Flair
10.Plans in the Opening
11:The Initiative
12:Modern Gambits
13.Opening and Middlegame
14:Reevaluation of Values
15:How long does a "Novelty" last?
16:How is an innovation born?

+Selected games from the author himself.