I am very curius about the recomendation of mr Pinski in the book against the Kalashnikov...

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Hi Mark,

At the time I had to order mine through NIC and it took about 3-4 weeks for delivery, although the option for expedited delivery was available. As far as I know it's not yet available on this side of the pond. 

I am not sure about this book.

Although I have played mostly the Pirc against 1.e4 in recent years, and QP and flank openings with White, I have, in my time, played a number of Sicilian variations with Black, before I decided I had to do some real (paid) work occasionally, and still play the Classical from time to time (especially now I am dissatisfied with the Pirc).  I also played Open Sicilians as White for quite a while in my youth (again, work commitments made me decide to play less theoretical stuff).

Some of the lines in the book look distinctly unthreatening, especially some of the stuff against the Taimanov.  Perhaps it is because they are jumping through hoops to avoid Black transposing to a Scheveningen, because they only recommend the Keres Attack against that.

It is better viewed as a collection of interesting ideas and games rather than a water-tight repertoire, imho.

Can't wait to see what Khalifman comes up with in his Opening for White According to Anand series, although since he still has to wade through the French, the Alekhine and the Pirc/Modern complex (which, I fear, may spell curtains for Black in the Austrian Attack ), it may be a while before we get to the Sicilian  

Looking at the same problem and having the book. The repertoire is consistant, so you wont run into holes by smart black players, as an example both the BG5 systems against the najdorf and classical, dont leave holes as far as I can see. I liked the book but I have to say some chapters are far more useful than others. The dragon, acc dragon, classical and the minors are pretty useful if not very useful, but the parts on the najdorf, Schwesnikow and scheveningen left me with a lot of questions (1900 player), though in the latter case that has most to do with black reaching a scheveningen via a non-standard move order. Other chapters sometimes take that into account and sometimes less.
But anyway it is a good book and it is a complete repertoire though you sometimes have to check for Scheveningen move orders, but they're there.

I am looking to find out what info is in this book.  What lines or moves do the writers reccomend against all of blacks moves.  I have heard this is a good book, but I wanted to order it and I cant find any info about it regarding specifics.