Well, my copies have arrived and it all looks lovely to me.

There has been a bit of glitch in the production process as a result of which my introduction has fallen out, and since I did intend in that to thank the readers of this forum for their support (bibs and micawber in particular for a couple of very helpful suggestions) I'll do that now. The same glitch has also removed all semi-colons from the book, which means there are a number of sentences which now look as though the author had never heard of capital letters of full stops, which really isn't the case.

Apart from that though it looks very good and I look forward to hearing what people think of it.

Strategy_Rules wrote on 09/25/08 at 09:36:03:


Actually not. You should see high performance by Rybka 3. I'm very satisfied with high level engine play. And Berlin Wall did not fall, and I wish that's the case even today. Long live DDR  

I should get my copy today, which means that most shops in Europe will have it already. I am quite excited.

I too preordered (with Amazon UK, although strangely it is showing as unavailable there again since I placed my order) but am content in my anticipation of this book.  I noticed the website issues Jacob referred to - they don't appear to have much luck in that area, do they? What with that and the black day Chesspub suffered, could it be that there's an anonymous disgruntled chess website vandal out there somewhere?

Jacob Aagaard wrote on 09/12/08 at 08:19:42:


Where, hopefully, it will not catch fire or be eaten by rats.

Hello Mr. Aagaard, Mr. Cox, where is the book?

By the way, Mr. Shaw, where is KING'S GAMBIT?

MNb wrote on 08/24/08 at 14:35:49:

You dont expect Kramnik to play 1.e4 e5 2.f4, do you? 

MNb wrote on 08/24/08 at 13:22:19:


This means that even better player has many problems in outplaying weaker opponents on the White side!