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Re: Two new Alekhine books within a year!?
Reply #1 - 04/16/09 at 20:37:10
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There is a recent post on these two issues. But I guess, with no
good answer to your questions
  
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Two new Alekhine books within a year!?
04/16/09 at 20:25:48
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So, it seems that both Timothy Taylor (Jan 2010) and V. Bogdanov (October 2009) are writing books for the Alekhine. Does anyone have any inside information on whether these are repertoire books or full coverages? If the former, which lines are they covering?

Also, are either of these players known Alekhine practicioners? The blurb for Taylor's book states that he will be drawing on his own experiences... but on the Chessbase internet database I found three alekhine games by him (as black), where he's scored 1/3 with no wins. I can find no games at all by Bogdanov. Davies' and Cox's books were very welcome as they were by experienced Alekhine players who were well aware of the "feel" of the positions and the various pitfalls of the opening. I'm not sure a non-alekhine player can truly appreciate some of the bizarre positions that we end up in!

I'd also like to know if they have drawn on the experience and analysis of people in this forum, especially Markovich who has played this opening for many years and understands it better than anyone else I've ever had the opportunity to speak to about it. 

Whatever the answers to the above, it is nice to see the gap in the literature of works on the Alekhine being redressed.
  

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