This is too bad. I haven't read the news in Schaaknieuws yet because I receive the magazine with a delay of three weeks. Van Mil's merits for Dutch chess journalism hardly can be overestimated.
Van Mil also ran De Beste Zet, an excellent online (and postal) shop for chessbooks:

http://www.debestezet.nl/

His wife Erika Sziva was one of the strongest female Dutch chessplayers during her active career. If I am correct Van Mil leaves behind two children.

Spree K wrote on 11/30/08 at 02:37:31:


I'm not saying not to play the Spanish necessarily, but I think that the Scotch would be perfectly fine for you.  The Mieses Variation, of course, 3...Nf6 4.Nxc6 bxd6 5.e5.

Big thanks mnb!

No of course don't copy them. 
Just wanted to know where I/we could write to to get a subscription and/or request back copies. 

Web site does not seem to work alas.
Hopefully the email account will...

Thanks for superquick response on this - much appreciated. Does seem as though an interesting article/series of articles.

Now you'd better run for the bus!

thanks,
Bibs

I am similarly intrigued, but it seems almost impossible to track down, even in the internet age. 

mnb - can you do us a HUGE favour and help us out with contact details? 

thanks in advance if you can help,

Bibs

Yes. It's not a book, but a series of articles in Dutch, in Dutch magazine Schaaknieuws. Van Delft takes the point of view that one should play main lines without bothering too much studying it in all details. He gives reference games, some improvements and a very general idea how to play the resulting middle game.

If you have plenty of time, play the main lines. That's what IM Van Delft recommends in his nice Schaaknieuws repertoire. I will give you a summary:
Cordel (or whatever) 3...Bc5: 4.c3 and the sac from Topalov-Leko, 1999. See Mark Morss' website.
Jänisch: 4.d3 fxe4 5.dxe4 Nf6 6.0-0 Bc5 7.Qd3 d6 8.Qc4.
Berlin Wall: the infamous endgame, queen's fianchetto and Rad1.
Archankelsk: 5...b5 (or 5...Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3) 6.Bb3 Bb7 Magem Badals-Llrente Zaro, Pamplona 2005, 12.a4 g6 13.f3 or 6...Bc5 7.c3 d6 8.a4 Stellwagen-Van de Poel, Vlissingen 2006, Naumann-Godena Szeged 2007, Sasikiran-Ponomariov, Zafra 2007, Timofeev-Halkias, Dresden 2007.
Open Ruy Lopez: 9.Nbd2; ao Anand-Leko, Monaco 2005 and Svidler-Sokolov, Wijk aan Zee 2005.
Marshall: 12.d4, 15.Re4 and the exchange sac g5 16.Qf3 Bf5 17.Bc2, see Milos-Egger, Sao Paulo 1993 (20...h6 is an improvement). His other option, the Anti-Marshall from Dominguez-Nielsen, Havana 2007, seems less attractive to me.
Closed Ruy Lopez 9...Re8 10.d4 Bf8 11.Bg5.
Smyslov Variation: 9...h6 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Deep Blue-Kasparov, New York 1997.
Karpov Variation: 9...Nd7 10.d4 Svidler-Anand, Linares 1999 and Nijboer-Asis, Barbera del Valles 2007 (VD recommends 21.Qe2 and 22.Bd3).
Breyer Variation: 9...Nb8 10.d4 Quezada-Blanco Santa Clara 2007, Zjigalko-Majorov Minsk 2007 and Nijboer-Butnorius Dresden 2007.
Tsjigorin-Keres Variation: 9...Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nd7 12.Kh1 and 13.d5.
Pure Tsjigorin: 11...Qc7 12.Nbd2 Van Delft-Timosjenko, Vienna 2003. White can improve with 25.Rxf6! Kxf6 26.a3!

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice on a choice after 1. e4 e5. My rating is mid class a and I have reasonable chances of getting better. (I've only been playing tournaments for a year and a half) I haven't played e4 in a while. I used to play 5. Qe2 in the Spanish as recommended by Greet in Play the Ruy Lopez, but I don't like 5... Bc5. Any thoughts on the main lines of the Spanish or perhaps the Scotch or Italian? I should add that I have plenty of time to study and that I am looking to play fairly tactically.