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Re: Good books on the Saemisch?
Reply #3 - 11/08/10 at 03:10:06
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Thanks for exellent replies!

'The Saemisch King's Indian Uncovered' by Cherniaev and Prokuronov seems to fit my needs very well.
  

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Re: Good books on the Saemisch?
Reply #2 - 11/07/10 at 21:27:13
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tafl wrote on 11/07/10 at 07:57:26:
Are there any good recent books on the Saemisch?

Primarily I am looking for something from White's point of view but really good books from Black's perspective are interesting too.


LeeRoth's post covered the main books from White's perspective, but you should also have a look at the Yearbook opening surveys in the Saemisch if you can. Kapengut's surveys are especially instructive, given that he wrote a monograph on the ECO code A65 for Sahovski.
  

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Re: Good books on the Saemisch?
Reply #1 - 11/07/10 at 15:19:50
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The most recent that I know of is The Saemisch Kings Indian Uncovered by Cherniaev and Prokuronov (2008).  It gives a good overview and update of theory, and is imo slanted towards White.  It sounds like what you want.  If you've been playing the Saemisch regularly, you won't find much you don't know in here, but it organizes everything and gives some guidance.   

The old Gallagher book on the Saemaisch was very good.  It's out of date, but if you're just getting started in the Saemsich and can find it second-hand, it would be worth having for its explanations.  If not, then I wouldn't spend much time looking for it.

Ward's Controversial Saemisch Kings Indian is excellent and definitely from White's point of view.  It's one of my favorite opening books, but its a different kind of book.  Its more a chatty, personal take on the opening than a standard opening book with trees of variations.  So I would definitely recommend it as a second source, but not as your primary Saemisch text.

Boris Schipkov did a fairly recent ChessBase CD.  It tends to be from the White side but is only so-so.  The opening surveys and explanations are bare-bones but Schipkov is an expert on the Saemisch and there is some decent material to be gleaned from his game annotations.  Overall, though, it was expensive and I don't think it was worth it.

Much of this discussed here:  http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1250635889/8
  
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Are there any good recent books on the Saemisch?

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