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jepoma YaBB Newbies Offline Always better to sacrifice your opponent's men Posts: 12 Joined: 05/30/06	Re: Books Covering the Ideas Behind the Berlin ? Reply #4 - 02/17/07 at 14:42:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	Having an author-in-the-process-of-writing within reach, can I suggest that he adds a couple pages on ideas ? What are the important squares/files to get control of ? What are the best/better outposts for knights/bishops ? What manoeuvres must one try to complete ? Is one of the bishops more valuable/problematic than the other ? To castle or not to castle ? Only if ... or after ... ? Adding just a couple pages on the ideas would make the book useful to less experienced players. And they would return to it after having acquired enough experience to fully benefit from the rest of the book. How's that ?


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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: Books Covering the Ideas Behind the Berlin ? Reply #3 - 02/16/07 at 12:28:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	I’ve played it a few times, Andrew. More than I’d played the Alekhine before I started writing about that, anyway. There is no book about it from Black’s POV. There are various sources: Flear, Offbeat Spanish, Kaufman Chess Advantage in Black and White and as you say Khalifman (whose coverage is not that great), all deal with it to some extent. But the best source is Almasi’s YearBook articles. People to follow: all those you mention plus Kiril Georgiev, but of course lots of GMs play the opening. Miles' games should be taken with a pinch of salt. Better for studying typical endgames than opening moves. He had his own ideas about the opening which are not widely shared.


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ANDREW BRETT God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 622 Joined: 07/07/06	Re: Books Covering the Ideas Behind the Berlin ? Reply #2 - 02/15/07 at 12:02:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	Kaufman has the Berlin as his main defence for Black in the Chess Advantage in Black and White. I don't know whether John actually plays the Berlin defence, as i seem to recall him writing about the Alekhine. Do you or don't you ? A good source is Khalifman's Anand series , albeit from White's perspective. Games to follow : In the past Kramnik, Miles and more recently Almasi and Alexandrov ! Good luck ! Andrew


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Willempie God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 4312 Location: Holland Joined: 01/07/05	Re: Books Covering the Ideas Behind the Berlin ? Reply #1 - 02/15/07 at 11:38:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Iirc resident IM Cox is writing a book on the Borelin. So you may have to wait on that.

	If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
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jepoma YaBB Newbies Offline Always better to sacrifice your opponent's men Posts: 12 Joined: 05/30/06	Books Covering the Ideas Behind the Berlin ? 02/15/07 at 10:49:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gang, Recently, IM Andrew Greet came out with a book on the Ruy Lopez (Play the Ruy Lopez, Everyman Chess) which, in addition to standard opening analysis, offers "much more explanation of ideas" which is useful for less experienced players (see http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1166193340/4#4). A bit less recently, Stormcrow indicated having learned quite a lot about the ideas behind the Ruy Lopez from three non-opening non-repertoire books (see http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1160074339/5#5). Being one of those less experienced players and being more and more interested in playing the Berlin as Black, I wonder if anyone could recommend Any books that nicely cover the ideas behind the Berlin ? Thanks !


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