Oops, my last post got cut-off, so I will continue it here:
Ch. 4: Averbakh System, lines without ...c7-c5 for Black, 18 annotated games Ch. 5: Averbakh System, lines with ...c7-c5, 11 annotated games.
The coverage seems to be primarily from the White perspective (i.e., Pinski and Ilczuc seem to be trying to provide you with enough information so that you could play these lines with White), but is sufficiently thorough and objective that a King's Indian player could also use this book to prepare responses to these "offbeat" systems. However, since the book also considers somewhat inferior tries for Black (i.e., with the point of showing how White plays against them), a significant portion of this book probably is somewhat superfluous from Black's perspective.
All in all, if you play the King's Indian as Black this book probably contains some useful information, but may not provide enough information from the Black perspective to justify the price unless you are a serious theory junkie. For most Black players, I would think that the coverage by Gallagher of these lines in Chapters 8-10 of "Starting Out: The King's Indian" should be sufficient, at least when combined with a look at the games in a chess database. (If you don't already have Gallagher's book, in my opinion you will get more bang for you buck from that book, probably even if you are a fairly experienced King's Indian player.)
If you are thinking about playing one of these lines from the White perspective, this book seems to contain a good, recent summary of the theory on these lines, and I would recommend it.
- Geof
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