Certainly does; thanks Eric. Please mail any details (or a website address) if possible: rpalliser@hotmail.com will usually find me.

cool john want to play in international in florida have a place for you or richard we are doing tourneys monthly

Will do richard seem to have major improvement with this publicity maybe someone will play this or bc4 against me in yugoslav everyone just ducks the good fight./eric

Richard just finished your book. great job, watson book as well been analyzing these lines with kaidanov in anticipation of tourney in early july thanks for the help and we agree but qe2 line can be dealt with, thanks for the response and good work Say hi to ward and simon williams for me. eric

In the ...Qh4+ line of the Taimanov, I think both ...Qd8 and ...Qe7 are playable. I seem to recall that Watson in his book on the Benoni, recommended ...Qe7 against non-Bd3 retreat systems (after you play ...a6, kicking the Bb5) and ...Qd8 against Bd3. Not sure what the current status of that line is.

The main line where you allow Bd3 and h3 isn't too bad for Black. I think White gets the usual tiny opening advantage, and importantly, there is still a lot of game left in the position. If you want to try and stop this, you can try 7.h3 a6 8.a4 Qe7. The immediate 7...Qe7 doesn't stop 8.e4 as if 8...Nxe4, 9.Qa4+ wins the knight.