Hi guys, no doubt some of you will have seen this DVD on the Chessbase site by now.
http://chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=383Has anyone got it yet? I'm interested to see whether he adequately deals with the problems highlighted by Eric Prie in his ChessPub column. Specifically the 1.d4 d5 systems where Black can attack first with ...c5
I notice one of the diagrams on the Chessbase site shows a 1.d4 d5 line with the c8 bishop blocked in by an early ...e6 - I therefore hope this is not going to be a DVD showing a succession of effortless wins for White involving Ne5, Qf3-h3 etc
Also, the 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.e3 0-0 5.h3 d6 6.Be2 c5 7.c3 Be6! line, also highlighted by Prie, seems to make White's position very tame indeed. It would be interesting to see whether Davies covers this, too.
I've always loved the London System, indeed all the d-pawn specials, but have always forced myself not to play them. So whenever a new book (The Gambit one a few years ago) or DVD appears, I am invariably interested. I always read Prie's ChessPub column, as he does something that I've never really seen done before - he critically analyses the openings in question to genuinely find the best moves for both colours. This sounds strange, but these types of opening systems are usually marketed as 'straightforward, with easy to learn plans' they generally tend to get treated as such.