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Is there any recent development on the status of Volume 3 yet?

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Thanks Pantu. I missed that. This is my first pass through the book and things have not really stuck in my mind as yet.
I checked Megabase and found  3 (or 4?) Wojo games in this line. Interesting why the authors did not include an analysis oif those games (yes one fo them was a quick draw but the other two were not.)
Back to the game Hilton - Zlotnikov, after 7 Nc3 Qa5 8 h3, they had a note saying they recommend 8 e4. But the point is Black's move after 8 e4. Here Zlotnikov played 8...e5 but the authors in Ch 11 only looked at ...Qh5 and ...Bg4.

Perhaps, taking an inspiration from the authors project, we can try to work something out here in ChessPub in this thread (or a new thread ?) on how White should proceed after ...Qa5 e4 e5? I will look up the games form Megabase. Perhaps "Fling" can spare not notes on what problems he is encountering with this line?

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Sorry, just checked this again, and I was right that neither are mentioned as it is 12 Nxe4 c5 that is covered and not 12 Ng5 c5.  But to be fair, they do suggest that 12 Nxe4 is their main line, although I side with Avrukh that 12 Ng5 is more promising for white.

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What line is this? I have notice some things missing, but nothing major yet.

I haven't yet looked too much at vol 2, but the 7 ...Qa5 line is what I have had most problems playing against in my blitz testing so far.

As indicated in another thread, I have been working through Wojo vol 2 partly to learn the KID fianchetto (a bit of a fetish with me to fianchetto my bishop) as well as to learn a bit more of positional play. I enjoyed the early main chapters. I have sort of reach Ch 11 where the authors concentrate on Black's response on the 6th move, 6...c6. (The repertoire is mainline 6...Nbd7, then 6...Nc6, then 6...c5). Ch 11 deals with what the authors call the "Kavalek system" with a 7...Qa5. Now the authors recommend 8 e4 (funnily enough the authors seem to suggest this is not as common as other moves but in my TWIC database (1 million games since 1992) this has been played 505 times whilst 8 h3 has been played 271 times  ) and they go on to consider only two Black responses, 8...Qh5 and 8...Bg4. According to TWIC database, 8...Qh5 was played 97 times and 8...Bg4 played 186 times. But the authors do not discuss 8...e5 played 221 times!!!

What is going on? Am I missing anything? I checked and I don't think there is a transposition to any other part of the repertoire. Is this a hole in the repertoire?

I ran this position with Hiarcs 13 and its opening book and it recommends 8 e4 and gives it a "!!".

Can anyone who has Wojo vol 2 and who has gone through the book and/or who plays the KID fianchetto as White  please help out? Any explanation? Thanks in advance.

Smyslov_Fan wrote on 09/24/11 at 03:42:10:


But does that specifically refer to the 10. Re1 a5 line?

I assume the Fianchetto will be recommended against the Grünfeld? Will the book try to improve on the games of the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad in 2010 where there were many games with the 10. Re1 a5 line?