A big "thank you" for your inspiring words. I couldn't even imagine that QC would finally decide to publish my work. At first i was amazed when Jacob proposed me a small 160 book. Then, when we worked on it and new ideas were popping out all the time (and good ones!) this book suddenly became a GM Rep! And we said that we will start from move 3, but we realised that one of the great powers of the Tarrasch is that it's "Universal Structure" can be played against anything! Yes, against 1.e4 it is called "The French Defense" which would be a subject of another GM Rep book by QC, but against any other else you can find what to play in our Tarrasch book! 
So, this book will start from move 1! 

I had a dream some years back. To make extensive notes on what i was calling "A classical universal Tarrasch set-up" and use them to teach our students together with my beloved coach (who was also a team-mate, a mentor, a friend and why not, a big brother for me) Nikos Karapanos. Nikos is no longer in life. So, after his death (Aug, 2009) i tried to publish this work and dedicate it to him. Jacob was really kind and he accepted it. So, dreams can came true after all....

We know this game and it is analysed in our files. We don't know yet what exactly is going to be our recommendation in those miscellaneous lines because we have 3 or 4 solutions against each of them. We will decide soon though. Don't misunderstand me, these lines are good for White in practice but against the Tarrasch the main lines are more of a challenge from a theoritical perspective. 

My philoshophy is to give a clear recommendation and a back-up line against those deviations because this can be very helpfull for a club player (like myself!).

You are right but that doesn't have to do with the objective evaluation of the position. In fact one of Flear's main lines lead to a winning position for Black if he continues with the right way!

Well, one observation is that a Yearbook survey from the year before that game was played thought that 22...Rxd8 should be slightly better for White, but that 22...Qxd8 is better.  Then Akobian apparently started blundering on the next move.

Very good news - good luck with it! New book on the Tarrasch is a great idea.

Ametanoitos wrote on 01/07/11 at 14:39:21:


I can't find any mention of a Tarrasch book on the Quality Chess site. Is there a link to it?

Yes, i also spotted the transpositional possiblility but here Black can play cxd4 quickly. The relevant chapter on Nf3 lines is not complete yet because we first were checking more critical lines like Taimanov's line -with a quick Be3- and Malaniuk's line -proposed also in The Dynamic English book with a quick dxc5+Qc2 before playing Nc3. In both lines White plays early cxd5. Maybe playing a quick cxd4 when the N is not on c3 and White hasn't played cxd5 is the most critical? That's why in the line you give me White waits with the move d4. I haven't check it yet but probably this is the reason.