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Re: Are there more dutch books than Dutch playing GMs?
Reply #1 - 12/15/08 at 07:58:18
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2.Nc3 and 2.Bg5 are of course good moves, although I did have a good enough score against them when I played the Dutch (but then I did take them as seriously as the main lines, which maybe some Dutch players neglect).

As to the thread's title looking at 2007-2008, I see
Beim, Malaniuk, Gurevich, Korchnoi, Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Kamsky, Bacrot, Vallejo Pons, Kasimdzhanov, Nikolic, Onischuk, Krasenkov, Nakamura, Zhang Zhong, Moiseenko, Nijboer, Shabalov, Bauer, Spraggett, Graf ...

Admittedly some were blitz games, but they were blitz games that counted. I'm not sure there were that many books, particularly not published in 2007-2008.
  
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Are there more dutch books than Dutch playing GMs?
12/15/08 at 03:10:15
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I play French against 1.e4. Found a few French players play dutch against 1.4. But I think this opening is seen as suspect, not many GM plays this recently. I am a 1.d4 player and have over 90% score against Dutch by playing moves like 2.Nc3 and 2.Bg5.

But the chess books on Dutch just keep coming. There is hardly any book on Queen's Indian which is a sound opening and is played in the highest level. But Dutch somehow keeps drawing more authors.

What's the matter ? Is it worth risking ?

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