Blue Flaneur wrote on 02/27/13 at 00:26:19:



Really, it loses a piece?

hahahahaha

with regard to the riga, i have no problem if he not mention it, but he did, gave it short shrift and not even the best lines against it, which would only take another paragraph .. and that makes little sense

and when i am ready for a deeper review i will do it on my own terms if at all, not yours and i do not owe you or anybody else here anything

now _____ off

And I had no idea what the Riga variation was until I looked it up a minute ago. Why would he need to talk about that variation?

It's a repertoire book for GMs not a primer for all the variations of the open. If you could list the mistakes in the analysis then it would be much more helpful then your silly complaining and the -B grade.

Mild disappointment in this book.  Barely even mentions Riga variation (only one quick blurb in chapter on center attack) and omission of even mentioning Dilworth attack seems remiss seeing as how the author used it frequently and has not used his recommended repertoire move.

Grade: B-

Yeah, for long time, I had that book in my collection.  A little beige-colored thing, in German.  In those days, 9.Qe2 was considered the big threat to the Open, and the stregth of 9.Nbd2 was unknown.

But 11...Bf5 is a bit of a departure from modern practice, it would seem.  The last time this was popular was in the mid-90s. The most recent games I have are Joergensen - Hjorth ICCF 2012; Dragun - Kolosowski, Warsaw 2012; and Quesada Perez - Milos, Mende 2009.  Also, I don't discover any games with Michailevski as Black.

Just received GR 13. I noticed that in the c3 lines, it recommends Bc5 and Bf5 over  Bc5/f5 or the Dillworth. Was this a surprise?

There is a pdf-excerpt available now

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/1/184/grandmaster_repertoire_13_-_the_ope...

So true. I do not know anymore what is autumn because there are only two seasons, winter and summer in Europe. In south of Europe now March is summer! Spring went to Arab nations. I guess October is a good start to look for the book in the traditional four seasons calendar, the only problem is that it is not valid anymore.

Mortal Games wrote on 02/25/12 at 10:17:48:


I am still trying to understand what that exactly means. Summer and autumn are subjective time frames. In Canada it can snow in April, which is considered spring but can feel like winter. In the UK the temperatures and climate are basically like winter for all 12 months.

And then of course in the Southern Hemisphere, summer/autumn probably ranges from November to April.