As it turns out. Chess4less in the US now has it for $29.95 US.  That was pretty fast.

Markovich wrote on 09/17/09 at 13:00:35:


Yeah. I don't have the patience to wait for Amazon to get new chess books in stock, so I just order it from somewhere else and pay a premium. It eats away at me if I see people discussing new books here and I don't have it yet! 

I guess that Marin did not find many Corr. games relevant to the lines he was advocating, but honestly I do not know. We try to keep up to date in those as well.

2.g3. To be honest, I am not really sure that Marin's reasoning for avoiding some lines rather than some other ones are too convincing. It is a matter of taste. And yes, majority of the lines simply transpose.

Marin deals with all other set-ups in the second volume, as can be seen from the somewhat confused cover  - http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/6/54/grandmaster_repertoire_4__the_englis...

I got the book yesterday. It looks amazingly good! Marin examines suggestions made in Dangerous weapons in the English and offers good lines to counter them. The balance between texts and variations is  excellent. Lots of Novelties are suggested. There is more text than in Avrukh's repertoire book. If Kosten's book was very user-friendly and urged many of us to use the 2.g3 English, it is rather old now and a few lines have proved to be way too optimistic (which is inevitable by the way...). Marin not only updates this material, he explains why some lines should be abandoned in a very clear way. As expected, people interested in the English should go and buy this book without any hesitation. I can tell  them they won't be disappointed.

I ordered this directly from Quality, but 29.99 Euro ( that includes delivery) is almost $40.00 for a chess book.  We have George Bush to thank for the miserable exchange rate, but maybe in future I'll wait and see if Amazon offers any significant discount.  It's not as if I don't have things to do besides look at the hot new chess book.

Just got my copy of the book. After spending some time this evening (about 2 hours) on the content I realised some things:
1) First of all the bibliogrpaphy states that Marin is using New In Chess and Chess Informant till 2006... What about the later volumes...
2) Again we have a lack of correspondence games. From the first 100 pages i found only one reference to a corr. game.
Anyway, the book looks superb with a  lot of explanations and new ideas. I would recommend it as any other Quality book to everyone.
I will contnitue to go deeper inside it.
But in the meantime I am wondering why the opening books simply ignore the correspondence chess. Anything wrong with it? I think there one can find quite a good ideas and ignoring them is not a good practice for any publisher. I do not hink that an OTB game played by players around 2300 deserves more attention than a game played by 2100+ corr players. Of course there are a lot of games which are pure engine games, but even in them one can find new and good ideas.
Just my thought...
Would be interested what the publishers and GMs think about this.

It was shipped from Poland to the European retailers Wednesday. Amazon will always get it last. We are already shipping it, so is Niggemann. Others will follow Monday and Tuesday. 

It will hopefully only take about 5-6 weeks to make it to the US, but it is out of our hands. It has to go through the Panama Canal...