RoleyPoley wrote on 12/24/14 at 16:25:07:
Finally picked up my copy this morning....and i think i am really going to enjoy studying this over the next few weeks!
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:
First thing i checked for was the line against the Morra Gambit as I used to play that when i opened 1.e4. Was initially a bit disappointed to find the main recommendation was to go down the C3 lines
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:
Tony, while i was in the shop, one of the staff commented that they had recieved a lot of requests/enquiries about the book and they think its going to be very popular...so well done!
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!