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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #80 - 06/25/09 at 04:16:03
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BlkSabb wrote on 06/25/09 at 02:57:09:
Semkov wrote on 06/24/09 at 20:59:41:
boki wrote on 06/24/09 at 10:13:20:
Nice book, but not exceptional

Everybody wants miracles, but in fact very few players care about books at all.


Maybe they just don't care about $40 books that you can barely find in stores.

Why am I having to order your books from Germany?  Have you guys ever heard of Amazon.com?  Buy.com?


Have you ever heard of the London Chess Centre or Chess OK.

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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #79 - 06/25/09 at 02:57:09
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Semkov wrote on 06/24/09 at 20:59:41:
boki wrote on 06/24/09 at 10:13:20:
Nice book, but not exceptional

Everybody wants miracles, but in fact very few players care about books at all.


Maybe they just don't care about $40 books that you can barely find in stores.

Why am I having to order your books from Germany?  Have you guys ever heard of Amazon.com?  Buy.com?
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #78 - 06/24/09 at 23:41:25
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I care about books, which are much better value than DVD's covering the same material.

I don't have Bologan's book yet but would hope that it contains plenty original analysis. If there are too many editorial mistakes then an onine errata sheet should more than take care of that problem.

The more important question is how does this work compare to Gallagher's excellent Play the King's Indian; Golubev's Understanding the KID and to a lesser extent Dangerous Weapons the KID and Dembo's Fighting The Anti-King's Indians (chapter on Engish).

My understanding is that this book is more suitable for master level players, which is a feature one rarely sees in opening books. Considering the pedigree of the author I expect this book to be sold out quickly and destined to become a classic of the genre.

Only an effort by Kasparov or Radjabov on this opening would create a more exciting buzz, and I find it puzzling that Kasparov has failed to do anything on this topic as yet despite his considerable success with  and the importance of this opening throughout his long career.

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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #77 - 06/24/09 at 20:59:41
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boki wrote on 06/24/09 at 10:13:20:
Nice book, but not exceptional

Can you give me an example for "an exceptional" book during the last 5 years?
By the way, I think it would be more and more difficult to produce not exceptional, but even decent books in future. You see Everyman embracing 100 pages/zero original ideas format. That's reality. Everybody wants miracles, but in fact very few players care about books at all.
There was a complaint about short bibliography. Why do we work with authors with 2700 Elo?! We expect to see their opinion, not a compilation of old books.
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #76 - 06/24/09 at 15:18:48
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Bibs wrote on 05/29/09 at 14:25:28:
gewgaw wrote on 05/29/09 at 13:38:01:
For example i would die to see a Hubner's opening book , on anything. Knowing the analytical Hubner approach, and with the prerequisti he used an engine, then the result would be a master piece of analytical work.


I just wanna improve my english:
"prerequisti" --> = reservation?


Prerequisite
pre: before
requisite: required, necessary.

Thus 'required before'.
check www.visuwords.com, which is an excellent language resource or any online dictionary.

Meanwhile, back to the ranch. Bologan's best games book was great, look forward to the KID book.

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Are there a lot of KID games in Bologan's best games book? What other openings are in it? I am curious about that book but I'd like to see what games are in it first. Anyone have a pgn file of the games in that book?  Smiley
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #75 - 06/24/09 at 13:12:59
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I thought KID ist busted, due to Semkov´s book "Kill KID"  Smiley Wink
  

The older, the better - over 2200 and still rising.
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #74 - 06/24/09 at 10:18:26
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forgot to mention, that a big plus is , that Bologan also covers the Kingsindian set-up against the english ! Wink
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #73 - 06/24/09 at 10:13:20
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I read the book a bit during the last days, and I aggree with the commments. It is a dense repertoire book , the author is a top GM (has anyone stronegr ever published a repertoire book?), many variqtions were played by himself or his coach Lanka.
However you should have experience in the KID, as there is little explanation on strategy.

Nice book, but not exceptional
But if you are interested in playing the KID, there is noway you can miss it.
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #72 - 06/23/09 at 20:18:43
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I have been reading this book for the last few days now. Honestly I am a little bit disappointed. One reason is that it seems to be poorly edited with a few obvious errors, omissions and a few oddities.

Some examples:

* after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 there is no
  mention of anything else than the Averbakh move 6.Bg5. This is
  surprising since Bologans coach Lanka - to whom he refers
  troughout this book – has won a nice game vs. Hort after 6.g4!?;
  6.h4 is another possibility missing

* in the chapter about the Four Pawns I couldn´t find the line 5.f4 0-0
  6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Be2 ed5 9.ed5. Since this is not as innocent as it
  looks, it should have been adressed

* in the Saemisch after 5.f3 0-0 6.Nge2 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Be3 exd5 9.cxd5
  he suggests that 9…Nbd7 10.Ng3 h5 11.Be2 h4 12.Nf1 is slighty
  better for white and instead recommends 9…h5. In the next
  paragraph he writes that white now should not play 10.Ng3 because
  of Nbd7 followed by h4 leading to a good game for black. This is just
  a simple transposition to the first line?!

* on the other hand there are whole chapters devoted to minor lines
  like 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 0-0 5.Bf4 or 4.e4 d6 5.h3 0-0 6.Bd3.

There are quite some more examples of this type in the book.

It is true that Bologan often analyses two, sometimes even three moves for black. But some of these lines are evaluated as inferior, mentioned perhaps for instructive reasons (though he doesn´t say so).

Furthermore the bibliography consists of only two (!) books and an index of variations is missing.

Despite my criticism above there is surely a lot of good material in this book. So I do think that every serious King´s Indian player should have this book on his bookshelf. But I´m also sure that with a little more effort this could have been a much better book

I would give this book 3,5 out of 5 (chess-)stars.  Wink
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #71 - 06/23/09 at 16:03:50
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Yes thats important to stress. No fundamental Kings Indian strategy explained. But he explains blacks and whites plans and strategies along with the theoretical varitions.

Bologan recommends 2 black reactions to many white main lines. In this way this book is very similair to John Watsons "Play the French" book.

I would say this book is a combination of Khalifmans books and John Watsons Play the French. Little more explanations than Khalifmans books as I view it.
  

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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #70 - 06/23/09 at 15:24:57
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rossia wrote on 06/23/09 at 07:19:25:
Can you please answer on following questions:

1. which format is given for theory? like in for example "The Safest Sicilian" or "The Sharpest Sicilian"?

2. are there "Theory quick scans" and then more theory to learn?

3. what is with introductory parts?

Thanks  Smiley


I am not Bogojump but I think I can help you here:

1. The book is written in a tree-format

2. There are no "Theory quick scans"

3. There are no substantial introductions

In fact I think it will help to have quite some experience with the King´s Indian since Bologan does not explain fundamental strategies for both sides.
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #69 - 06/23/09 at 12:42:43
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #68 - 06/23/09 at 07:19:25
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Bogojump wrote on 06/22/09 at 21:08:46:
God mix of variations and explanations. This is not a lazy mans work.


Dear Bogojump,

Can you please answer on following questions:

1. which format is given for theory? like in for example "The Safest Sicilian" or "The Sharpest Sicilian"?

2. are there "Theory quick scans" and then more theory to learn?

3. what is with introductory parts?

Thanks  Smiley
  
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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #67 - 06/22/09 at 21:08:46
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I got the book today and it is really nice. The newprinted book smells very good!! hmm!

Well I dont know where to start (I just opened it up).....it looks VERY promising I must say.

God mix of variations and explanations. This is not a lazy mans work.

Many KID player will be happy to have this one.

GM Zigurds Lanka has had a significant impact on Bologans way to play the KID. For example in a variation of the Fianchetto variation he declines following the main line and choses the variation he was tought by GM Lanka.
  

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Re: CHESS STARS new KID book for BLACK
Reply #66 - 06/22/09 at 05:27:39
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Why is the price double that of a normal chess book?  I think I'll order from somewhere that doesn't charge $30 for the book and $10 for shipping.  Maybe these other books are looking more attractive instead.
  
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