I haven't had time to check the notes or anything, but it looks good.  I might buy it, thanks!

No apologies necessary. If you saw my translation of the Karlsbad 1907 book what you saw was my error checking of Marco and Schlechter's notes in addition to the translation itself. Everyone expected my books on Chicago 1926 and AVRO to be similar, but they're original works (checked by the engines, just to be sure).

The publisher just gave me permission to make a PDF of one of the rounds and post it, so I'll be doing that soon. I can send you one in a PM if that would be of interest. I just have to decide which round . . .

I haven't had a published rating for a lot of years, as I haven't been playing in tournaments. My last official rating was 2289, from 35 (!) years ago, but since then I've put a fair amount of work into chess and am clearly stronger than that. Friends tell me my strength, based on games with them and against computers, is 100 points higher. If I knew the openings better I'd be an IM without any sweat at all. IM-level chess is self-evident to me.

I'm not competitive, though, being more of an analyst and aesthete, so I may never know my true rating. But I might play in the Vermont state championship, which would give us some idea.

I'm quite strong at pure analysis and am good technically (I love endings). The notes in the AVRO book have a lot of original material, including thoughts I've had on these games since I was a teenager in the 60's.

I will ask my publisher if we can post a sample chapter or game to his Web site so you can see what I have done with these games.

Bob

I happen to be one of the authors of this book, the one who provided the notes to the games. I annotated every game from scratch, with later reference to existing notes. As I say in my author's preface:

"Those of us who value the history of chess have reserved a special place of honor for the tournament sponsored by the Dutch in 1938. We are drawn to the great players and the epic games produced by the confluence of two generations of profound chess artists. So when publisher Dale Brandreth asked me to provide notes for this latest collaboration I overcame my feeling of trepidation—can anyone ever understand these games deeply and accurately enough?—and settled down to this most daunting but enjoyable task.

"Dale and I agreed that the games should be analyzed afresh, without reference at first to the familiar commentaries, to try to get as unprejudiced a view of them as possible. Then afterwards we would examine the contemporary and later reports and the game collections, including what was of particular interest in them to fill out the context and color for each encounter, consistent with our wish to see each game with an original vision."

The analysis disagrees in many places with the previous understanding of these games. There was no point is just re-hashing the old analysis.  -- Bob Sherwood

Oops! I remembered the thread from a couple of weeks ago but didn't bother to read it again.

Niggemann lists a new book:

Dale Brandreth, Robert Sherwood
 
AVRO 1938
International Chess Tournament

Publisher: Caissa Editions
Language: English

Actually, a tournament book was written in 1938 M.Euwe who also participated.
Unfortunately for the rest of the world it was in dutch....