Thanks everyone for your interest on the book. You correctly defined that it’s about 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6, and then to navigate Black away from the classical Old Indian (...Nbd7 and ...e5). Yes, it’s close to Vladimir Georgiev’s repertoire, and also played by GMs Volokitin, Efimenko, Glek, sometimes Morozevich, and Cherniaev too. The concept is that on one hand it offers a complete separate repertoire, and on the other hand King’s Indian players may use it as the flexible move order to avoid some undesirable systems.

Here is a brief Chapter outline:

Chapter 1 is devoted to the position on the cover: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 e4 (Cherniaev’s games against Korchnoi and Gormally will be there).
Chapter 2 analyses white’s deviations on the 4th move: 4.d5, 4.e4, the endgame after 4.dxe5, 4.e3, etc.
Chapter 3 is called ‘Preventing e2-e4 with …Bf5’. The main move order it is devoted to is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Nc3 Bf5, but we also consider the ...Bf5 idea in a couple of other move orders, such as Janowski’s 3.Nc3 Bf5 (as alternative to 3...e5), …Bf5 ideas against fianchetto King’s Indian (as played by McShane), and also there’ll be probably the first publication about the Capablanca Variation 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Bf5!? (for those who don’t want to play the Pirc there).
Chapter 4 is there to justify the subheader “А repertoire for Black against 1.d4” and offers Black lines against any deviation White can play on the 2nd or 3rd move, such as Trompowsky (2.Bg5 or 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bg5), the London System 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bf4, fianchetto 2.Nf3 d6 3.g3, Veresov, Blackmar-Diemer etc.

Recently Alexander Cherniaev had some interesting analyses and conversations about this opening with experts on it, mostly during the latest Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. He talked with Georgiev (who was optimistic about this opening) and Efimenko (less optimistic). Anna Muzychuk told him an interesting detail that it was she who showed this opening to Volokitin, and then he showed it to Glek. Alexander forgot to ask who showed it to Muzychuk to find the root. Also Alexander showed and discussed the variation with his friend Vlad Tkachiev. A bit earlier Alexander (as Karpov’s current assistant) presented this opening to Karpov and had some blitz games with it against the ex-World-Champion.

There are many unexplored paths in this opening, even within critical lines. So the book will contain a considerable amount of original analysis, with emphasis on the critical positions. The book is not finished yet, so you may offer here some questions, ideas and suggestions which might be reflected in the book.
-- 
Eduard Prokuronov

It is typically called The Janowski Indian -- though I found a Silman article in an old magazine where he suggested "Shirazi Indian."  And Tal played it some.  I have written about it here, with bibliography:
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2005/11/tals-janowski-indian-games.html
http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/summer05/tal.htm
The big downside is that there is essentially a forced drawing line after f3, well discussed in the literature.  But if you don't mind a draw as Black, then why not?

Also worth knowing is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Bf5!? -- see here:
http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2006/janowski-A46.htm

Thanks for bringing The New Old Indian to my attention.

(OT)  Ah yes, Pickett.  He penned a number of opening books a few decades ago.  He was perhaps a textbook example of a biased opening writer.  For example, he had a book(let) called something like "New Ideas in the King's Indian," advocating certain lines for Black.  Looking at the contents, a reader might come to the conclusion that the KID is forcibly =/+.

As for analytical problems, I'm reminded of something I heard from (American IM) Larry D. Evans.  Evans (in a game against GM Anatoly Lein, I think) had followed a line from one of Pickett's books.  After they reached the end of the book line (which was supposed to be better for the side Evans was playing), Lein made one more move and Evans had to resign.  (I recall a sentence from the back-cover blurb of one of his books, "As always with Mr. Pickett, tactics are to the fore.")  Evans said that he subsequently learned that Pickett was something like "a 1600 player from England who couldn't sell his books over there, so he sends them over here."

motörhead wrote on 09/08/10 at 21:48:15:


There were these two rather dated book on the Old Indian:
Pickett (1984). The Old Indian Renewed. Nottingham: The Chess Player. ISBN 0906042534

Soltis, The Not So Old Indian

Smyslov_Fan wrote on 09/09/10 at 15:15:55:


I've used the ...Bf5 system myself as a decent surprise weapon.  This system (at least one variation of it that I remember anyway) on this forum without finding a clear-cut edge for White.  Perhaps one of the new repertoire books out there has a convincing line against it.

Does anyone know if the authors will have a look at 3.Nc3/3.Nf3 Bf5? This variation is a good surprise weapon that has been employed by Georgiev, although White keeps a solid +=.

Fllg wrote on 09/08/10 at 20:24:10:


I don't want to move this thread off-topic either, but anyone with that name's gotta be a total stiff.

I would think not, since the position shown in the cover mock-up is more in line with 1...Nf6 and 2...d6, and that is what Cherniaev plays/played.