Good grief, did he delete my post? I thought this was a conversation about a well known repertoire book that advocates 1.e4 e5. Seems pretty heavy handed to remove posts mentioning that the repertoire will be changing in the new edition - even if that change is to (gasp!) 1.d4.

Markovich: Please stop butchering posts.

wolfsblut wrote on 12/07/11 at 19:47:13:


I suspect the reason for the change was that he hit a brick wall as to what to do about the Petroff and perhaps more importantly the backbone of his e4 rep, i.e, the Exchange Ruy, has fallen on hard times. I don't think even the Exchange Ruy's biggest advocates play it much anymore (Rozentalis, Kasparov, S not G and even Kinderman, S who was rather optimistic about white's chances some years back has now loss faith in it).

The problems with his old rep continued to multiply, when Ivanchuk virtually busted his main recommendation against the d6 Sicilian, namely the Moscow Bb5+ against the d6 lines, within months of the Book's release (See Delchev - Ivanchuk 2003). It should be mentioned that Gawain Jones recently tried to resurrect the line in his very recent book How to Beat the Sicilain defence [An excellent book overall by the way, at least for otb players] but was only partially successful in my opinion. 

The Berlin is still in great shape, but still I think the change to the currently trendy Breyer was an excellent move, as it lacks the boring stigma and the instant endgame that doesn't appeal to everyone, not to mention that these days the Breyer scores very well for Black in practice, and the lines given if OFWATA aka 1.e4 player's bible, are no longer that effective or feared. Time for an updated second edition OFWATA rep. 

Not to fear 1.e4 players, theory tends to move in cycles, trends and fashions and I'm sure the pendulum will soon swing back the other way.   

Keep the faith.

Tops

kylemeister wrote on 10/05/11 at 17:30:09:


He also wrote an article on the Bf4 QGD. He seems to choose lines which are played at top level but no so much written about. (Berlin, Breyer and perhaps Blackburn QGD.)

Not exactly a shocker, since I've noticed him playing that in recent years (plus he wrote a Yearbook article rather favoring White's chances in the Saemisch KID).
Incidentally, the most recent game of his I came across -- vs. Shankland in the Breyer, albeit with d3 -- caused me to think, "This might not make it into his book" ...

wolfsblut wrote on 06/12/11 at 12:27:05:


Still semi slav according to the chess.fm interview. No talk about white openings.

Hi,
I`am also very interested in this 2nd edition:

"Kaufman has selected a range of sound lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require the memorization of lots of theory and can be played with confidence. The recommended openings are not razor-sharp but contain enough venom for the white side to strive for a clear advantage and for sufficient counter-chances on the black side." 

There will be the Breyer, which is O.K., but in my eyes there is no place for the the razor-sharp Semi-Slav Anti-Moscow-Gambit.......?
What du you think? What else will he recommend?

greetings

Wolfsblut