An interesting sample line involving a temporary queen sac is 9.d5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Bb5+ Bd7 12.Qxg4 Bc5+ 13.Kh1 Nf6 14.Qf5 Bd6 15.Bxf4 c6 16.dxc6 Bxf5 17.c7+ Qd7 18.Bg5 Ne4 19.Rxf5 Nxc3 20.Bxd7+ Kxd7 21.bxc3 Kxc7 22.Rxf7 with some endgame advantage. This is undoubtedly not the last word; the complications are fun.

As the book is not yet ready the following game may be useful. I have already sent it to Kaissiber.

According to the new Quality Chess catalogue, the book is still planned.
The expected publication date has been moved to December 2009.
So we have to exercise patience a little longer.
In the meantime a relatively recent game

[Event "Ch France (team) 2009"]
[Site "France"]
[Date "2009.03.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shirazi Kamran (FRA)"]
[Black "Jakovenko Dmitry (RUS)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C36"]
[WhiteElo "2410"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator Micawber]


1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 exf4 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. d4 Ne7!?
(5... c6 is the most solid reply I think; But if you out-rate your opponent by 300 ELO points, you probably arent interested in solid continuations.)
6. c4 c5
( White is a little better after 6... Ng6 7. Bd3 or 6... b6 7. Bd3)
7. b4!
(7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Bxf4 O-O unclear (Dubois,M (2080)-Chaude de Silans,C (2000)/Nantes 1993)
(7. Nc3 cxd4  8. Nb5 O-O 9. Nxd6 Qxd6 unclear ( Reich,T (2394)-Vogiatzis,D/Fuerth 1999)
7... b6  8. bxc5 bxc5 9. dxc5?
(I think that White can claim an advantage after 9.Bd3! +/=. White's last move will haunt him for the rest of the game, since the open diagonal a7-g1 makes it difficult for White to castle)
9... Bxc5 10. Bxf4 O-O 11. Nc3 Re8 12. Be2 Nf5 =/+



Black is allready better here

13. Qc2 Qf6 14. Rd1 Nh4 15. Nxh4 Qxf4 16. Nf3 Bf5 17. Qc1 Be3


In the rest of the game, white wasnt able to complete his development

18. Rd2 Nd7 19. Nd1 Rab8 20. Qc3 Nc5 21. Rd4 Bxd4 22. Qxd4 Bd3!


(23.Qxf4,Rxe2+ 24.Kf1, Rb1!-+)

23. Nc3 Bxe2! 0-1

(24.Qxf4,Nd3+ 25.Kd2,Rb2++; 24.Nxe2,Rb1+ 25.Kf2, Ne4-+)

I prefer 3...Nc6 4.d4 g5!?, which is largely neglected in the books.  Play often continues 5.h4 (White could try to transpose to the Pierce Gambit with 5.Nc3 here, but I don't trust White's compensation after 5...g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.0-0 Nxd4) 5...g4 6.Ne5 transposing to a line of the Kieseritzky- admittedly not one of Black's most critical responses, but still probably sufficient for interesting and equal play.

I've also had a few players try 6.Ng5 when after 6...h6 7.Nxf7 Kxf7 play usually transposes to a Hampe-Allgaier Gambit after a subsequent Nc3, and as per analysis on another thread, I assess the resulting positions as unclear/equal.

I don't deny, though, that most theoretically critical remains the immediate 3...g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 (5.Ng5 h6 6.Nxf7, the "pure" Allgaier, is unclear but probably confers an edge to Black) 5...Nf6 or 5...d5.  And the Hanstein Gambit (4.Bc4 Bg7!) has been well covered recently too.

kylemeister wrote on 03/27/09 at 22:19:28:


But there is no resource for players who encounters these commonly played lines which are weaker, but not necessarily outright blunders.
That was my point.
I don't need to find out much more about the main line defences - I already have Gallagher's book.  
It seems that Shaw is getting bogged-down with analysis, but perhaps the focus of many of these opening guides is wrong for the reasons I outlined above.

I think part of the problem here is that authors like Tait & Shaw get so obsessed with Fritz analysis of the solid lines that they cannot see the woods for the trees.  No doubt the potential authors get depressed with the workload and editing problems of such a complex system.

What most of us want is a straightforward OTB battle manual for the KG, not some obscure but solid line in the classical defence that runs to 5 pages of analysis to move 30.

I'm a lower intermediate and so most of my KG games are well out of book by move 10 anyway.
Many Black players opt for questionable stuff like 2...exf4 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d4 d6 or 2...exf4 3.Nf3 Bc5 & an overview of these commonly played lines & others would be of more use.
Why are these moves not so good?  What are the thematics of these commonly played positions?
 
Writing a tome with deep analysis for GM quality play seems rather odd to me, since no GM's play this opening with regularity anymore & the only possible people to benefit would be top-end CC players.

Intermediate (& better) club players play the KG regularly, so why not pander to the mass market & dare I say dumb it down a little?

A case of K.I.S.S for these authors, perhaps?

Any news?

When will the book be out???