RoleyPoley wrote on 12/24/14 at 16:25:07:


I hope you do! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy myself, as weird as that sounds. I find myself using the PDF copy I received already...

RoleyPoley wrote on 12/24/14 at 16:25:07:


Yeah I totally understand. If I wrote the book a few years earlier you would have no doubt received a Morra Accepted line. But then all of these books came out, and in my older, wiser age I started to appreciate the pragmatic and practical advantages of not allowing people to enter lines they really enjoy. I'm sure Morra players feel the same I felt when I played the Dragon and had to face 3.Bb5+, or the Benko and had to face 2.Nf3. And like you said, this keeps the repertoire consistent, tight, and not prone to being irrelevant when some obsessive, Morra-crazed fanatic finds one improvement over my line and torches 20 pages of my book.



RoleyPoley wrote on 12/24/14 at 16:25:07:


Thanks, I hope so! I'm hoping that this book is the "go-to" source for the Kalashnikov for many years to come. Though opening theory travels so fast these days. I've already decided I'm going to do a small update to the book 6 months to a year from now, even if it's just unofficial and distributed through Facebook, ChessPub, e-mail, etc. I'm sure I'll have some repairing to do once the QC Shaw and Negi books come out!

Yahoo!

the Rossolimo games are at http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php?se=7&sf&ga=25 and http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php?se=7&sf&ga=26
both games starting 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 g6 5.h3 Bg7 6.e5 Ng8 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.d3 Nh6 9.Ne4

Regarding that "simple development" without g4, it sounds to me as though it could end up like old stuff in the line 3...g6 4. 0-0 Bg7 5. Re1 Nf6 6. e5 Nd5 7. Nc3 Nc7 8. Bxc6 dc (in which White usually doesn't play h3, and the knight's path to d4 takes five moves in either case).

TonyRo wrote on 12/22/14 at 18:08:56:


Hopefully they mean that the copies they recieve this week  have already been bought as pre-orders! 

Daniel wrote on 12/22/14 at 15:36:05:


I did - in fact I looked at the line in the first game (with the early Bg5 and ...Bd7!?) as a possible second repertoire choice for the book, but I ended up thinking the c4! lines, as in the second game, were too dreary for Black. Perhaps he can hold, but I think White has the slightly better position. That's just my feeling.

I didn't see the Rossolimo games, but I'm surprised to hear that - I don't feel as though allowing Black to easily fix his offside knight with ...Nh6-f5-d4 makes much sense for White. Can you post them here if you have easy access?

Tony, did you see the latest TCEC Superfinal games? Stockfish and Komodo both held as black in 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d5 6. Nc3 a6 7. Na3 b5 8. Nd5 Nce7

However, white crushed in both 3...Nf6 Rossolimo games with simple development in the lines after the e5 push without g4 (g4 gives black an effective f pawn break).

Edit: Does black actually have an active plan in these lines or is he just forced to shuffle around if white refrains from g4?

Man I can't believe it's finally out.

*Crosses fingers that he's not lambasted*