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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #39 - 10/30/10 at 09:25:37
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clickclick wrote on 10/30/10 at 07:01:18:
Chesscafe has the book in stock now.

Unfortunate boo boo regarding the number of pages...
http://shop.chesscafe.com/Play_the_Dutch.asp

ps. what does McDonald recommend against 1.Nf3 f5 2.d3!? ?

And does he take into account DW: the Dutch?


2.d3 g6 which is dealt with in a whopping 3 games (remarkable, since the main mainline 7...Nc6 only got 2 games.) (these 3 games also equal about 25% of the games played with 2...g6), Schandorff & Gerber vs Bartel plus B.Jacobsen-B.Christensen, Silkeborg 2009.

Before you ask, 2.Bg5 is met by 2...h6

So, a big part of the repertoire consists of lines 'discarded by Kindermann'  Undecided
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #38 - 10/30/10 at 07:01:18
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Chesscafe has the book in stock now.

Unfortunate boo boo regarding the number of pages...
http://shop.chesscafe.com/Play_the_Dutch.asp

ps. what does McDonald recommend against 1.Nf3 f5 2.d3!? ?

And does he take into account DW: the Dutch?
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #37 - 10/27/10 at 12:51:07
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Got the book today.

Leafing thru, it's got some interesting suggestions, and comments and it's very "readable without a board" as there are very few sidelines in the notes - but there's a limit to how little you can say and still be worthwhile reading...

For example, the main ML 7...Nc6 8.d5 Na5 9.Qa4! which has always been the theoretical problem with 7...Nc6, is dealt with on pp 147-150 in two recent otb games. And as a devotee of 7...Nc6 since the mid 1990s this was one of the first things I looked at, along with 2.Nc3 where he only gives 2...d5 3.Bf4 a6!? as the dynamic alternative. It would be nice to have an alternative to the mandatory 2...Nf6 3.Bg5 d5 4.Bxf6 exf6 etc; if it works...

Looking at the ML, sadly it literally took me 2 minutes with my corr database to find an improvement (and a rather obvious one at that!) on his mainline: 9...c5 10.dxc6 Nxc6 11.Rd1 Ne4!? 12.Nxe4 fxe4 13.Ng5 Nd4 and now he only gives the clumsy 14.Rd2 as "14.Bf1? Bd7 and White will lose at least the exchange after [...] a fork on c2".

Well, as I've mentioned elsewhere, a theory book that ignores corr games will age faster than a vampire in sunlight, and after 14.Be3! White has a very good score in corr, as taking the exchange crashed and burned in: Klausen,T (2415)-De los Santos Serrano,A (2338) ICCF 2003, 1-0 in 28.

And the better 14...Nf5 is met by 15.Qb3 with a white advantage as in for example: Chorfi,K (2095)-Schakel,C (2383)/ICCF 2006, 1-0 in 44 moves.

Sadly I've only had the book for a couple of hours and already I'm disappointed - but hopefully, some of of his other suggestions will hold water vs the corrbase...

The good news is that the back cover promises "2 free updates of this book available within a year of publication at www.everymanchess.com" - it will certainly be needed...
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #36 - 10/19/10 at 14:36:45
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #35 - 10/19/10 at 14:20:21
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #34 - 10/19/10 at 11:55:05
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Gilchrist is a legend wrote on 10/18/10 at 22:41:52:
Does anyone know when Play The Dutch will be released? It is listed as October 2010 publication, but Chess Direct and London Chess Centre both say that it has not been released yet.


I just got a mail notification from the bookdepository that it's "Back in stock now"
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #33 - 10/18/10 at 23:47:41
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According to the contents page, McDonald covers both 7...c6 and 7...Nc6 in the main line. Good decision.  8-)

I wasn't aware of the 8.Qc2!? e5 9.de5 de5 10.Rd1 idea against the 7...Nc6 Lenningrad, which was covered in the extract. I am quite tempted to add this book to my shopping cart. ;)

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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #32 - 10/18/10 at 23:19:02
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According to the Everyman Chess homepage it's out. Maybe in a few days your chess bookstore has received it.
  

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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #31 - 10/18/10 at 22:41:52
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Does anyone know when Play The Dutch will be released? It is listed as October 2010 publication, but Chess Direct and London Chess Centre both say that it has not been released yet.
  

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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #30 - 09/28/10 at 13:59:15
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Thanks! I try to follow Chesscafe but I missed that one somehow.
  

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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #29 - 09/28/10 at 13:21:01
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On Chesscafe.com june 2010:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kaiss57.pdf
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #28 - 09/28/10 at 13:01:31
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Where did Bücker improve on Avrukh's Dutch lines? In a Kaissiber issue, perhaps?
  

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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #27 - 09/28/10 at 12:18:29
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I'm wondering if McDonald conciders in his book Marin's CBM articles in the Leningrand, Bucker's improvements over Avrukh's Dutch coverage and the analysis in DW The Dutch. Modern chess books tend to "forget" consulting all the available sources. Of course Mc Donald has huge experience on the Dutch and i expect him to write a masterpiece. I'll buy the book because i like the way Mc Donald gives comments with huge practical value. I catch myself many times to forget certain lines of theory in my games when i play the French or the QGD but remembering Mc Donald's comments from his book i find my way. The problem with the Dutch however is that you cannot rely on general principles because your position is not exactly sound, as it is with French or QGD. So what you need is good analysis.
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #26 - 09/25/10 at 09:59:43
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Ametanoitos wrote on 09/24/10 at 21:14:00:
The introduction was written at Sept of 2008?  Sad


Does it matter when the introduction was written?

For what's it worth, the content looked promising to me. Bd7!? instead of Qe8 was something that was new (or forgotten) to me and Qd3 e5 is definitely a better choice than c5?!

The proof of the pudding will of course be how well he deals with the mainline Qa4 - the only real threat to Nc6 imo.
  
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Re: Everyman announces book on the Leningrad
Reply #25 - 09/24/10 at 21:14:00
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The introduction was written at Sept of 2008?  Sad
  
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