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Mnb is right to mention Palkovi and Pinski. But there is a difference. Palkovi's book is quite good, and contains original analysis, than Pinski's book. My personal experience is that Pinki contains quite a few errors, but perhaps this is because I looked a bit selective at the variations.
This is not immediately apparent. Pinski's book seems to contain lots of original variations and analysis as well. But if you look a little closer, this is only because he often "forgets" to mention the relevant game reference or the original analist. On the positive side, Pinski's book is somewhat more accessible for lower rated players, containing more verbal recommendations.
That being said, both would facilitate to build a black repertoire yourself, but you should check the variations given carefully.
Harding was moderately positive on Palkovi, even though he pointed out some analytic errors there.
Finally, if you consider to play either the Traxler or the Fritz-variation, both books will be of little use, as much new theory did appear in the last 5 years. From earlier threads on this forum you can see, that the Fritz-variation is considered not entirely correct at this moment, and Black faces problems in more than one variation.
The Traxler seems playable, but only if you want to be booked up to the max.
Personally I would recommend to play the classical Na5-variation, but that is of course a matter of taste.
Nigel Davies provides a reasonable repertoire for Black based on the two knights with Na5 in his 2004/2005 book:
Play e4 e5!.. This is in fact the book I would recommend, as it provides you with a reasonable opening repertoire against other white variations as well.
But even here you will have to do some work yourself, mainly to look a bit at recent games in the 8.Qf3 variation.
The forum provides some additional information and some corrections on Davies work.
Finally there is always the subscribers section 1e4,e5, to update all the mentioned pre 2005 books (it also contains as a bonus my 2008 two-knights forum survey mini database)
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