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Bologan - Bologan's King's Indian    
  2 (5.4%)
Cornette - The Complete Ragozin    
  3 (8.1%)
Georgiev - Fighting the London System    
  3 (8.1%)
Marin - Grandmaster Repertoire: The Pirc Defence    
  5 (13.5%)
Montany - Opening Repertoire: The Modern Samisch    
  7 (18.9%)
Moret - My First Chess Opening Repertoire, Black    
  0 (0.0%)
Ntirlis - Playing 1.d4 d5: A Classical Repertoire    
  8 (21.6%)
Panjwani - The Hyper Accelerated Dragon    
  2 (5.4%)
Smith - e3 Poison    
  5 (13.5%)
de la Villa - Dismantling the Sicilian, Revised    
  2 (5.4%)




Total votes: 37
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #15 - 01/10/18 at 07:20:40
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Confused_by_Theory wrote on 01/09/18 at 23:49:56:
Hello.

JEH wrote on 01/08/18 at 13:52:58:
I nominate:

The Pirc Defence, Mihail Marin, Quality Chess 2017

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I'll second this book nomination.

Decent lines, fairly good analysis and nice explanations. Hard subject to write repertoire book on as well.

Have a nice day.


To be fair, also a lot of move order issues and lines that are not regarded, to that day.
I was so happy when Marin on the Pirc was announced, and they said they have checked it with multiple Pirc specialists, so this is even more disappointing than before. As good as the Quality chess books are, I have to say that I hope that this book does not get a lot of votes. There are so many better ones (already on this list!)
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #14 - 01/10/18 at 04:47:27
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ErictheRed wrote on 01/10/18 at 01:05:17:
I nominate Pert's Playing the Ragozin published by Quality Chess.


My copy of the Repertoire says 2016.

However, "The Complete Ragozin" by Matthieu Cornette is published 2017.
  
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Reply #13 - 01/10/18 at 01:05:17
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I nominate Pert's Playing the Ragozin published by Quality Chess.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #12 - 01/10/18 at 00:04:25
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I'd like to nominate "King's Indian Warfare" by Smirin.

It contains the most fantastic chess i have seen for a lot of years from a true specialist of the opening. An opening guide as well as a guide to dynamic chess in general.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #11 - 01/09/18 at 23:49:56
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Hello.

JEH wrote on 01/08/18 at 13:52:58:
I nominate:

The Pirc Defence, Mihail Marin, Quality Chess 2017

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I'll second this book nomination.

Decent lines, fairly good analysis and nice explanations. Hard subject to write repertoire book on as well.

Have a nice day.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #10 - 01/09/18 at 11:04:33
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I'd like to nominate:
e3 Poison, Axel Smith, Quality Chess 2017

Not sure it will give competition to Ntirlis, but I enjoyed it a lot. The explanations were good, interesting choices and the depth of theory about right for me.

From other books not yet nominated I also liked the Nimzo Indian book by Roiz. However I don't use it much, as I prefer the choices Gustafsson made in his Nimzo video series on chess24.
  

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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #9 - 01/09/18 at 08:42:10
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I'd like to nominate Kiril Georgiev's "Fighting the London system" (Chess Stars).

Although I don't expect him to win, I consider this an excellent effort, as the author tries to give practical solutions to a very common OTB problem, and I like the progressive approach of chess stars books compared to the heavy analysis of QC works.

K.Georgiev gives good explanations and pointers as well.
  

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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #8 - 01/09/18 at 00:23:53
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Am I allowed to nominate two? I feel that both

The Hyper Accelerated Dragon by Raja Panjwani

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Opening Repertoire: The Modern Sämisch by Eric Montany

belong on the list of candidates.
  

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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #7 - 01/08/18 at 19:47:11
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I have not purchased any books in 2017, so may have to abstain this time.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #6 - 01/08/18 at 17:44:31
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I second Ntirlis's "Playing 1.d4 d5." It has great explanations of otherwise-untreated pawn structures, cutting-edge theory, and coverage of topics beyond those required.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #5 - 01/08/18 at 16:17:12
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Last year I believe the problem was that the Poll was mistakenly open for Guests as well.
I don't think too many people would create an account to vote for their friend, but when you don't even have to do that but can just click, naturally it is going to happen.

I am not sure if one CAN limit the poll to "X number of posts", afaik it's just "Members only" / "Guests also", the former of which was used every year aside from the last one
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #4 - 01/08/18 at 15:44:31
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We always vote on opening books only.

I would request that this year we limit voting to contributing members in some way. We don't have to have stringent requirements: ten lifetime posts, something like that?  But it would be nice if the award actually reflects the members of our community and not a social media effort.
  
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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #3 - 01/08/18 at 15:37:00
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I nominate 'Dismantling the Sicilian' (2017 edition) by GMs Jesus de la Villa and Max Illingworth.
  

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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #2 - 01/08/18 at 13:52:58
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I nominate:

The Pirc Defence, Mihail Marin, Quality Chess 2017

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Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations

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Re: ChessPub Book of the Year 2017
Reply #1 - 01/08/18 at 13:29:00
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My personal vote would go to Ntirlis' "Playing 1.d4 d5. A Classical repertoire for Black".

Thx
  
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