No but I couldnt edit anymore after I had pressed the button (I was under the mistaken impression that I had copied without the game comments from cb). I'll mail trw to edit it.

Not sure if this line is in the book, but it seems good enough to beat a WCH:


[Event "Schachbundesliga 2011-12"]
[Site "Baden Baden GER"]
[Date "2012.04.14"]
[Round "14.1"]
[White "Tiviakov, Sergei"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[WhiteElo "2647"]
[BlackElo "2817"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. d4 cxd4 5. Qxd4 a6 
6. Bxd7+ Bxd7 7. c4 e5 8. Qd3 h6 9. Nc3 Nf6 10. O-O Be7 
11. a4 

-- Edited at User's request -- TRW

You are lucky that Andrew Greet wrote an excellent chapter in the "Experts Vs Anti-Sicilians" book where he tries to find an advantage by simple means for White is those lines with Qxd7. I actually agree with him that White must be somewhat better. I'd play 3...Nc6 for Black to avoid those stuff

"Philosophycal" question: what's the goal of the book? I mean, is he trying to get an advantage, to get positions with chances to have an initiave/attack, is he trying to get some positional concession from black, is he trying to survive the opening and then play chess.... Thx

Now that you mention it I remember that review by Watson. Not sure how serious the omission of 8... Qg4 is but since it has been played 2005 in a game between Guliyev and Vocaturo it certainly should have been mentioned. That game deviated from Watsons analysis after 9.d3 Ne5 10.Nbd2 Nh5 and now 11.d4 instead of 11.Nf1. 

The game should be equal but it is not dull so the better player may prevail as Guliyev did indeed.

Not intending to disrupt your ongoing dialog but let me "in brackets" just say how NICE this book by Gawain looks like. I agree to an earlier post that the book is between good or very good. For me it feels more like very good than just good.  Gawain ...just like Bologan build his repertoire on chopping off the knight on c6 as early as possible if it leads to a weakening of blacks pawnstructure. Also interesting is his Maroczy setup against  1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7. A setup employed by Tiviakov. I guess black cant have too fun playing against these lines.

The author has put much effort into his work with this book.

In general I like this book very much. But it´s only good or very good, not outstanding. Maybe 7-8 stars out of 10.

Coverage of 2...g6 and 2...a6 is a little bit disappointing. The given suggestion are good surprise weapons but I wouldn´t base a serious white rep on them. And below master level 2...g6 and 2...a6 are really popular, probably because of the Rossolimo!

And of course you can find throughout the book several lines where Jones claims a little something but in the end Black might reach total equality.

The only real problem I see is the way Jones fights against the Moscow main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.0-0 Nf6 6.Qe2 Nc6 7.Rd1!? Among many other (more natural) moves Black has the modern and sharp 7...g5 (?! Jones), the line goes 8.c3 g4 9.Nh4 Qe6 10.d3 and, according to known OTB games, Jones looks at 10...c4 and 10...0-0-0. A search in CB Corr Database 11 reveals four games featuring 10...d5(!), White scoring =3 -1 . Last year I had to face 10...d5 in one of my own games and didn´t manage to find a sufficient answer, imo White is already desperately fighting for equality after 10...d5. Neither 11.Nd2 0-0-0 nor 11.Bg5 Rg8 12.Bxf6 0-0-0 can pleasure, probably the pawn sacrifice 11.Bf4 dxe4 12.dxe4 Qxe4 13.Qxe4 Nxe4 14.Na3 gives White enough compensation to save a draw.
Maybe I´m wrong, but I have abandoned 6.Qe2/7.Rd1 from my white rep and would advise anybody to make a very deep analysis of 10...d5 before following Jones propositions. Regarding 4...Qxd7 I switched back to c4 lines, following Greet (Chapter 5 in the QC-Anti-Experts) I´m at least on the sunny side of the draw!

tracke