Spanish is no problem for me, to read at least. Of course i'm interested, so much so that I would like to see a table of contents, the lines he advocates and so on...

Fernando,

if one (like me, lol) does not speak any spanish, is it possible to follow the de la Villa's book? Is it just analysis or lot of idears? How do you rate it?

@Fernando : any idea how I could acquire the book by De La Villa ? In these regions (Northern Europe) nowhere to be found...

Yo people, you know I just put up a post regarding this. I should have put it here, take a look, according to the new tromp book, bc1 does not look so good, but maybe a new move is out there. Yeah there is not many games in this variation. Not even chess pub gives anything too deep.

Ok people, if anyone has the book on the tromp by Davies, the first game in the book is S.Buckley-Gormally 
 
d4 nf6 
bg5 ne4 
bf4 c5 
f3 qa5+ 
c3 nf6   
d5 qb6 
bc1 e6 
c4 exd5 
cxd5 c4! 
e3 bc5 
kf2 oo 
bc4 d6 
ne2 nbd7 
nbc3 ne5 
na4 qb4 
b3 b5! 
 
ok ut to 16...b5!, all the old books, including the newest one by wells, never brought up this move, and said white was ok here. 
 
So is this it? Is white busted? any reconmendations? in this line? or maybe should I switch to bh4? or i heard the lines with nd2, sacking the b pawn are ok? what about move 3 nc3 or pxp and make it like a sicilian? What does everyone think? 

I just saw Prie's annotations on that grischuk game.  thought-provoking indeed, and both Davies and Wells are not much help here. will be looking for some improvements myself.

Dear Eric: the delayed stonewall update is excellent.  It brings me back to my childhood days, when I used to play the Colle/Stonewall Attack but with no idea of so many subtleties! I also think the greatest threat to the Tromp comes from 2... e6 and especially 2... d5, so it will be nice to have as much coverage on these lines as possible

I agree with Davies.

Grischuk played this line with Black recently, check it out, it may shed more light on this.

Regards

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just to let eric know:

I really enjoyed the coverage of the Tromp 2... e6 3. Nd2, which i haven't seen covered anywhere else. More 3. Nd2 please.

Transpositions (to the torre or otherwise) should be mentioned in the Tromp e-book though.. because there are many Tromp players who have never played the Torre!