(UTC)
  ChessPub Forum › Chess Publishing Openings › Flank Openings › Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
(Moderators: Hadron, proustiskeen)
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1 ... 24 25 [26] 27 28 ... 36
Topic Tools
Very Hot Topic (More than 25 Replies) Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin (Read 377961 times)
parisestmagique
Senior Member
****
Offline


I Love ChessPublishing!

Posts: 473
Location: paris
Joined: 01/24/06
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #155 - 11/19/09 at 08:45:56
Post Tools
I like the English opening but my problem is 1.c4 c6 and 1.c4 e6. Books about the English often gives tedious lines like 1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 dxc4 wich was already called "a dubious gambit" by Raymond Keene in Flank openings in the seventies ...
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
TonyRo
God Member
*****
Offline


I'm gonna crack your skull!

Posts: 1846
Location: Cleveland, OH
Joined: 11/26/07
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #154 - 11/19/09 at 00:50:18
Post Tools
Hopefully he checks out Shipov's new book for the newest stuff on the Hedgehog.
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
IMJohnCox
God Member
*****
Offline


I Love ChessPublishing!

Posts: 1551
Location: London
Joined: 01/28/06
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #153 - 11/18/09 at 22:54:29
Post Tools
I think he's giving 1 c4 Nf6 2 g3, so as to be in position to meet 2...e5 the way he wants, but 1 c4 c5 2 Nf3. That's the impression I get from the combination of the introduction and the remark Jacob reports, anyway.
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
BPaulsen
God Member
*****
Offline


I Love Light Squares!

Posts: 1702
Location: Anaheim, CA, USA
Joined: 11/02/08
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #152 - 11/11/09 at 15:12:45
Post Tools
Alias wrote on 11/11/09 at 13:05:39:
BPaulsen wrote on 11/11/09 at 10:28:37:
For the Symmetrical English volume does he intend to prevent the Hedgehog with 2. g3, or go into it?


From the Quality Chess blog, Aagaard wrote: "He takes on the hedgehog, I think. No 3.d4 stuff." 

To be honest, I'm not sure if I understand that sentence, especially since I got the impression that vol 2 also would use 2.g3 vs almost everything.


Coverage of the Hedgehog from the white point of view (aside from Khalifman's work) would be extremely welcome. 7. Re1 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 needs serious improvements from the white side to even hope for an edge, so if it does get covered I hope he goes with the other critical try - 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4. Perhaps the bigger reason I'm hoping for coverage of that is to see if it matches my research...

1. c4 c5 2. g3, last I checked, posed fewer theoretical problems than 2. Nf3, so it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to go allow the Hedgehog. Then again, it would be significantly easier to write for 1. c4 c5 2. g3.

Any clarification on whether the Hedgehog is going to be covered, and if it is going to stray from Khalifman's recommendations would definitely tell me whether I want to buy it, or not.
  
2288 USCF, 2186 FIDE.

FIDE based on just 27 games.
Back to top
YIMAIM  
IP Logged
 
Antillian
God Member
*****
Offline


Brilliance without dazzle!

Posts: 1757
Joined: 01/05/03
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #151 - 11/11/09 at 14:04:27
Post Tools
Yeah, I am bit confused myself. I took Aagaard at his word when he said that Marin would allow the  Hedgehog. But then when I got my copy of Volume 1, I got the impression from the introduction that Marin was going to advocate 2 g3 against everything (except 1...b6). So I welcome some clarification.
  
"Breakthrough results come about by a series of good decisions, diligently executed and accumulated one on top of another." Jim Collins --- Good to Great
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Alias
God Member
*****
Offline



Posts: 1512
Location: East of the river Svartån
Joined: 11/19/04
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #150 - 11/11/09 at 13:05:39
Post Tools
BPaulsen wrote on 11/11/09 at 10:28:37:
For the Symmetrical English volume does he intend to prevent the Hedgehog with 2. g3, or go into it?


From the Quality Chess blog, Aagaard wrote: "He takes on the hedgehog, I think. No 3.d4 stuff." 

To be honest, I'm not sure if I understand that sentence, especially since I got the impression that vol 2 also would use 2.g3 vs almost everything.
  
Don't check me with no lightweight stuff.
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
BPaulsen
God Member
*****
Offline


I Love Light Squares!

Posts: 1702
Location: Anaheim, CA, USA
Joined: 11/02/08
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #149 - 11/11/09 at 10:28:37
Post Tools
For the Symmetrical English volume does he intend to prevent the Hedgehog with 2. g3, or go into it?
  
2288 USCF, 2186 FIDE.

FIDE based on just 27 games.
Back to top
YIMAIM  
IP Logged
 
Jacob Aagaard
Full Member
***
Offline


Quality Chess says hi!

Posts: 165
Location: Glasgow, UK
Joined: 01/16/08
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #148 - 11/11/09 at 09:58:49
Post Tools
He damn well have to. He got in trouble enough when he handed in the 750 "chapter" on 1.c4 e5 to keep him straight!
  
Back to top
WWW  
IP Logged
 
Alias
God Member
*****
Offline



Posts: 1512
Location: East of the river Svartån
Joined: 11/19/04
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #147 - 11/11/09 at 07:58:55
Post Tools
I got the book yesterday. It looks very impressing. Lots of explanations. I've used Kosten's little gem "The Dynamic English" now for 10 years. That was 144 pages in total. Volume 1 of Marin's work is 480 pages. Also the page size is larger. A comparison is not really fair. Now I wonder if Marin will manage to do all non-1...e5 lines in just one book of similar size as volume 1.
  
Don't check me with no lightweight stuff.
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
BlkSabb
Full Member
***
Offline


I love ChessPublishing.com!

Posts: 224
Location: Leakesville, MS
Joined: 07/23/04
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #146 - 11/09/09 at 08:38:11
Post Tools
I'm waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail.  Meanwhile I picked up a copy of Carsten Hansen's 1999 book on Ebay and I've been reading my other English Opening books and of course the Flank Openings section on CP.

I've been combining English lines with the Avrukh book lines in the Catalan and the Slav and I recently threw the Saemisch KID and Mikenas Attack in there.  Sometimes I go into a Reti for variety.

I'm thinking about playing the Panov-Botvinnik some instead of Slav lines but I need to work more on isolated pawn positions.  I'm planning to read the Baburin book.
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
Alias
God Member
*****
Offline



Posts: 1512
Location: East of the river Svartån
Joined: 11/19/04
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #145 - 11/09/09 at 08:20:44
Post Tools
GMTonyKosten wrote on 10/10/09 at 13:21:24:
I think the book is brilliant! Cheesy
My review is now over on the main Flank Openings section (http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/12/reviews.htm)
Only one or two very minor quibbles, for instance on page 310 he gives 13 Nd5 two question marks, and says it 'famously loses a piece'. However, what about my game against Das, Sautron 2007? Undecided


Great review! I'll get the book although I'm nearly set for playing 1.d4 instead of my usual 1.c4. 

By the way, the old Watson books are easily available from Hardinge Simpole. http://www.hardingesimpole.co.uk/series/hardinge_simpole_classic_openings.htm
  
Don't check me with no lightweight stuff.
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
alumbrado
God Member
*****
Offline


Esse quam videri bonus
malebo

Posts: 1418
Location: London
Joined: 02/17/03
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #144 - 10/22/09 at 21:20:54
Post Tools
GMTonyKosten wrote on 10/20/09 at 15:19:34:
alumbrado wrote on 10/19/09 at 11:30:27:
I think it is interesting that Marin recommends the lines with Nd5 in the 4 Knights (by transposition, as he starts with 2.g3, as has been discussed).  Watson's 'Mastering the Chess Openings' (vol. 3) was rather dismissive of these lines, as I recall.

But Marin has a few improvements in the 4 Knights line, in particular his 9 e3.


For sure.  My point was that JW had perhaps been unduly dismissive - I've always had a soft spot for the Nd5 lines.  I don't have the book but I remember not buying it on account of his comments about these lines, which were one of the main things I was interested in!
  
If sometimes we fly too close to the sun, at least this shows we are spreading our wings.
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
pumi
Junior Member
**
Offline


I Love ChessPublishing!

Posts: 63
Joined: 12/21/06
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #143 - 10/20/09 at 18:41:38
Post Tools
And major one I think  Smiley
  
Back to top
 
IP Logged
 
GMTonyKosten
YaBB Administrator
*****
Offline


Mr Dynamic?

Posts: 3192
Location: Clermont-Ferrand
Joined: 12/19/02
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #142 - 10/20/09 at 15:19:34
Post Tools
alumbrado wrote on 10/19/09 at 11:30:27:
I think it is interesting that Marin recommends the lines with Nd5 in the 4 Knights (by transposition, as he starts with 2.g3, as has been discussed).  Watson's 'Mastering the Chess Openings' (vol. 3) was rather dismissive of these lines, as I recall.

But Marin has a few improvements in the 4 Knights line, in particular his 9 e3.
  
Back to top
WWWFacebookTwitter  
IP Logged
 
Jacob Aagaard
Full Member
***
Offline


Quality Chess says hi!

Posts: 165
Location: Glasgow, UK
Joined: 01/16/08
Gender: Male
Re: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.c4 by Marin
Reply #141 - 10/20/09 at 11:28:13
Post Tools
I am not an expert on these lines and would hate to say anything concrete. I did get the impressions from Watson's books that he did not go too deep into analysis. It was not what he was trying to do, rather he was giving a general view and history, which can be read in one go.

This does mean that when we get into the details, things are often a good deal more complicated than an overall view will reveal, as is the case here and some other places I have noticed. But you cannot be an expert in all lines, so it is not meant as a criticism, just a valid point to take into consideration when comparing the two books.
  
Back to top
WWW  
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1 ... 24 25 [26] 27 28 ... 36
Topic Tools
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
Bookmarks: del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Google+ Linked in reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Yahoo
 
  « Board Index ‹ Board Top  

ChessPub Forum » Powered by YaBB 2.6.12!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2026. All Rights Reserved.

Valid RSS Valid XHTML Valid CSS Powered by Perl Source Forge