It seems that the issue with 8...Nxe4 is forgotten...Nevertheless this move survived the critical test of analysis with the best players of the club (which speaks of it's practical value!)
   We looked first at 9.dxc5 Re8 10.Qd4 Qe7 11.Bf4 when 11...f6 and 11...Qf6 looked adequate. Then we looked at 11.f3 Qh4+ 12.g3 (which is forced) 12...Qh5 13.Bf4 which seems that allows the strong 13...f6.
   At the end almost everybody decides that 11.Nxc6 has to be best. We concluded that Black's only move is 11...Qe6 and after 12.0-0 Qxc6 13.b4 white has an extraq pawn and maybe is a bit better but....13...Ba6 14.Re1 Nxc5! is nice and 14.Rd1 Be2! 15.Re1 Ba6 again with the threat Nxc5 maybe forced a draw by repetition after 16.Rd1 Be2 etc. Ofcourse Black can play 16...Qg6! with the idea of Be2-Bf3! while also Nxc5 is a threat with the rook on e1. 
   By that time there was late and many players decided to go home(!), but everyone had the belief that Black was at least OK. Maybe 13.Be3 is better but the trick with Nxc5 again works and this position with the opposite-colored bishops and the attacking chances with Black cannot be the critical test of 8...Nxe4 and 10...Qe7. What do you think?

Would be interested in the list of comming up titles from qualitychess.

proustiskeen wrote on 10/02/08 at 06:42:52:


Do the right thing, you know?  Buy the book.

Jacob - any chance you could post the sample chapter on the Evans Gambit from BTOG 2nd ed. on the new website?  I have the first edition, but if I remember, the new version is much more complete.

Thank you.  Sorry for hijacking the thread.

Two topics

1) Website - we were changing server. www.qualitychessbooks.com will be down another 48 hours - but all it will do after then is to point to www.qualitychess.co.uk, which is up now.

2) Missing pages. $&#!@$(. I hate when it happens. We ditched our printer in 2004 because of this. In the 80.000 books or so we have printed since then, this is only the second time I have heard of this.

Obviously we will replace the book, but there must be some kind of control system. The correct way is to make the shop you bought aware of it and they will replace it. We will then reimburse them.

Jacob Aagaard

As for the pages "missing" issue. My last page is no312 ending with the move 10...Kg7 without the result of the game, without any conclusions (there is one conclusion after each game) and there are no indexes, no "books to come" as there is in every other qualitychess book i have (for instance i ordered also Questions of Modern Chess theory which haves all these things at the back). So, i suspect that there are some pages missing (maybe only in my copy?  )

Ametanoitos:

Thanks for your comments.

1.   There aren't any pages missing at the end in the sense of having been accidentally omitted. Why do you think so?

2.    I hope that any references of the type 'the Ivanchuk game' are to a game of Ivanchuk's given in the notes immediately above the reference, earlier in the illustrative game in question. If there are such references that can't be easily traced like this then I agree with you that there shouldn't be.

3.   I agree this is a critical line (4 d3 Bc5 5 c3 00 6 Bc6 dc6 7 Ne5 d5 8 d4 are the moves), but I did think of 8...Nxe4 and I don't think it quite works. After 9 dc Qe8 10 Qd4 f6 11 Nf3 Ng3+ 12 Be3 Nxh1 13 Nbd2 followed by 000 and picking up the knight White is better, and the same after 9...Re8 10 Qd4 Qf6 11 Nf3 Qxd4 12 Nxd4 Ng3+ 13 Be3 Nxh1 14 Kf1 and so forth. I don't think what I gave does necessarily amount to a slight advantage for White though: most people think Black was OK in Volokitin-Cheparinov (presumably including the Topalov/Cheparinov team, since I think this was after Someone (Anand?)-Topalov), which is the other reference I give.