Thanks for the all the responses.
alumbrado: I also picked up the Davies book, with the thought that his lines might serve as a 'stop gap' measure in my repertoire until I had mastered the Kramnik material. Unfortunately, I just cannot get into the spirit of the Reti move b2-b3. I'm also not a big fan of letting black play 2...d4. Black looks to get equality through simple and natural moves in lines like these. I simply can't convince myself that I'm really making black
work to negate my '+=' birthright.
Although, I have to admit I find the
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.b4!? line a lot of fun to play. It just feels a bit naughty to play such a brash QS thrust on move 3.
It took real chutzpah for Reti to play such a thing against Capablanca when most people considered such a move obviously inaccurate (and that Capablanca was just the technician to prove it). But it paid off... as it still does over 80 years later.
BTW, I remember reading that that game (Reti-Capablanca 1924) was the best "advertisement" the hypermodern school ever got.
Thanks again to everyone.
Has anyone else tried to implement the Kramnik repertoire? Are black players 'booked' as well on these lines?