Hi again,

thanks for your suggestions. Meanwhile I subscribed to the KID section and a lot of my questions are indeed answered by the ebook and with reference to the annotated games. 

I still haven´t been able to find a lot of recent 6...c5 games, but this might happen because few GM play the Saemisch right now from the white side.

Sadly the line 7.d5 e6 etc. is treated as a transposition to the benoni, and this only covered in the benoni section in which i am not interested. 

I am still confirmed that the 6...c5 line is a very solid and (compared to 6....e5, 6...Nc6 etc.) easy theoretical option for black, at least as long as I don´t have to play for a win. After reading your comments I doubt whether it´s worthwile to buy a book on it right now, at least not if it doesn´t include the benoni transpositions.

Lou

Jeremy Silman gives the new Saemisch Uncovered book a resounding thumbs down, in part because of its coverage of the ..c5 line.  See his site for the review.

I think Grivas gave some stuff on Saemisch ...a6 ... c6 line somewhere. CBM? or a NIC review. I forget.
Postpone castling was I think the moral of his tale.

I did, but he gives only one game with 6...c5 and concentrates on the 10.Ba3 variation after accepting the gambit. That´ll do, but what happens after something like 7.dxc dxc 8.e5, 7.Sge2 or 7.d5?

I might browse through various threads or even subscribe to the KID section, but I would still be missing some good advice on the 6..c5 line. Therefore I am looking for something written to start work prior to looking in databases etc..

Lou

Hello everybody,

one of my new years pledges is to beef up my KID in the Saemisch variation, so please help me out.

So far I have played the modern variation with 6....Nc6 following the recent book of Golubev. My enthusiasm for this line has almost vanished after two lost games last fall. Now I am willing to accept that this line is under theoretical pressure.

So I want to study the 6....c5 variation, as seems to be the least theory compared to the 6...e5 variation and others. I know it is known to have a drawish tendency, but on my level the better player (the one who doesn´t play the last patzer move) should have good chances
to win.

Which book might be best for this task? So far I only know Gallaghers book (Play the KID) deals with c5 lines, and there is the new book from Everyman In an older thread I found a reference to a book of Ward. What would you recommend from the black side of KID?

Lou