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Question: What was the best Opening book of 2011


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Grandmaster Repertoire: Grunfeld (2 vol) ~ Avrukh 14 (20.0%) Attacking Chess: King's Indian (2 vol) ~Vigorito 7 (10.0%) Attacking Chess: The French ~Williams 4 (5.7%) The Ragozin Complex ~Barsky 5 (7.1%) The Ruy Lopez Move by Move ~McDonald 5 (7.1%) Petroff: An Expert Repertoire for Black ~Sakaev 7 (10.0%) The Complete Hedgehog vol.2 ~Shipov 8 (11.4%) The Scotch Game ~Dembo and Palliser 1 (1.4%) Nimzoindian Move by Move ~Emms 5 (7.1%) 1.d4 Beat the Guerillas! ~Bronznik 3 (4.3%) GM Repertoire:The Tarrasch ~Aagaard & Ntirlis 11 (15.7%) Total votes: 70 « Last Modified by: Smyslov_Fan on: 02/27/12 at 21:29:52 »

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Boris Avrukh wins ChessPub Book of the year, 2011! (Read 66323 times)

gewgaw God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 687 Location: europe Joined: 09/09/04	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #33 - 12/21/11 at 22:28:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	Well, "objectively" the best book should be a book by quality chess, due to their ridiculously high level in opening books, but who has the time and the memory to work through it thoroughly? So my favorite is "The safest Grunfeld" by Delchev (chess-stars): well chosen lines and games, lots of verbal explanations, very instructive. I leart the grunfeld with the help of Rowson some years ago and this book is sufficient, to play this opening for a lifetime. By the way, I´m always interested, where a book was printed and I´ve seen never a concept like this: Wojo´s weapons 2: publisher: Mongoose Press (usa) Cover Design: Creative Center - Bulgaria Printed in China It seems, the usa has no media designers and no printing machines?!

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Raspje Junior Member Offline Play the dynamic French Posts: 55 Location: Winsum, Groningen,Holland Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #32 - 12/21/11 at 15:38:19	Post Tools	Print Post
	My candidate: *Denis Yevseev, Fighting the French: a new concept* (Chess Stars, 2011)**


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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #31 - 12/10/11 at 00:05:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	Katalyst wrote on 12/09/11 at 21:53:52: nimzo5 wrote on 12/04/11 at 12:41:25: I would also agree that to make the award relevant it should be limited to opening works only. Very simple solution, have an award for Best Opening Book, and another for Best Non-Opening Book. End of arguments, everyone happy Right. And let's also have an award for the best DVD, the best game commentary, the best endgame analysis, and the best attempt at self-referential chess humor. In the latter category, I nominate myself, for this post.

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Katalyst Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Joined: 10/01/07	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #30 - 12/09/11 at 21:53:52	Post Tools	Print Post
	nimzo5 wrote on 12/04/11 at 12:41:25: I would also agree that to make the award relevant it should be limited to opening works only. Very simple solution, have an award for Best Opening Book, and another for Best Non-Opening Book. End of arguments, everyone happy


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slates God Member Offline Posts: 507 Location: England Joined: 01/27/05 Gender:	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #29 - 12/09/11 at 20:12:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	Daniel wrote on 12/09/11 at 17:04:32: I am surprised at the lack of love for Sakaev's Petroff book. I nominate Sakaev, Konstantin. The Petroff: An Expert Repetoire for Black. Chess Stars 2011 Shipov, Sergey. The Complete Hedgehog, volume 2. Mongoose 2011 The Bronznik and Greet books were excellent too but not opening book of the year good. Amenaitos and Aagaard's Tarrasch book will of course be nominated when it comes out. I'm not sure if it will surpass Sakaev and Shipov but it looks excellent. I also think Sakaevs book is superb. It's depth is way in excess of my needs and level, but it also has plenty of very useful, but concise, prose for me to learn from.


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Daniel Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 169 Joined: 05/29/06 Gender:	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #28 - 12/09/11 at 17:04:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	I am surprised at the lack of love for Sakaev's Petroff book. I nominate Sakaev, Konstantin. The Petroff: An Expert Repetoire for Black. Chess Stars 2011 Shipov, Sergey. The Complete Hedgehog, volume 2. Mongoose 2011 The Bronznik and Greet books were excellent too but not opening book of the year good. Amenaitos and Aagaard's Tarrasch book will of course be nominated when it comes out. I'm not sure if it will surpass Sakaev and Shipov but it looks excellent. Markovich wrote on 12/04/11 at 13:25:02: I think that Vigorito's KID set stands out. One thing I especially like about it is its extensive consideration of ideas that lie off its recommended paths. It's very complete in that way, and also very objective. "Production values" good as well. Fluffy did his homework. The only thing I didn't like about the book was his recommendation of the Saemisch Panno. It is very unpleasant for black. I understand his rational for giving it (no one else had in quite some time and the pawn sacs in it are speculative fun) but it is very difficult for black against a prepared player of the white pieces. It's one of those lines that are bad in many ways and the problem is some of them are very simple.


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Matemax God Member Offline Chesspub gives you strength! Posts: 1302 Joined: 11/04/07	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #27 - 12/09/11 at 11:09:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	I dont know if it is already mentioned: The Ruy Lopez Move by Move, McDonald is my nominee. If you play the RL or ever plan to do so, this book is a must...


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emary Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 151 Joined: 07/26/08	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #26 - 12/09/11 at 08:53:34	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello, I nominate the groundbreaking Vladimir Barsky: The Ragozin Complex A Guide for White and Black New in Chess 2011 Barsky presents a difficult and interesting opening accessible for a wide range of playing strength. I don't know of any recent coverage of the whole Ragozin in English or German. Starting point of Barsky has been Lipnitzky's legendary book "Questions of Modern Chess Theory", which includes analysis of the Ragozin not translated by Quality Chess. This way we get some history of the Ragozin en passent. There is a very valuable introduction: "How to study a chess opening" which every chessplayer should be aware of. The Ragozin is presented in 64 deeply annotated games. Therefore this book teaches you middlegame principles, especially "better structure vs. better development" as well. In my opinion this great book should make it to our short list at least. Regards


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #25 - 12/06/11 at 01:53:10	Post Tools	Print Post
	Again, PLEASE! Make sure your nominations are published in 2011!


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Igor Junior Member Offline Schild und Schwert der Partei! Posts: 79 Location: Italy Joined: 04/12/09 Gender:	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #24 - 12/05/11 at 19:57:17	Post Tools	Print Post
	aidin wrote on 12/05/11 at 15:21:23: 5- 888 miniatures ( by Gary kasparrian). an unique book about wonderfull endgames with excellent physical quality I have ever met in a chess book built. Excellent book but it's 2010 (# Publisher: BeoSing; 1ST edition (2010) # ISBN-10: 8676861471 # ISBN-13: 978-8676861477)


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aidin Junior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 89 Joined: 10/16/10	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #23 - 12/05/11 at 15:21:23	Post Tools	Print Post
	limiting the candidates to just opening books reduces dramaticly the attractiveness of this refrandom ! Please think wider ! Now , my nominees : 1-Understanding chess middle games ( by John Nunn, forewarded by world champoin Vishy Anand ) .Gambit books. also Anand has mentioned somewhere that he has a close co operation with Nunn in all of this. 2- Grandmaster vs Amateure ( by Quality chess) : an outstanding work by several world - class authors. 3- Endgame ( by Dr. Brady ) about fischer , a most accurate work about the chess history's unrepeatable genius , by his close friend. 4- Grandmaster chess strategy ( a new look at the most debatefull field in chess ). 5- 888 miniatures ( by Gary kasparrian). an unique book about wonderfull endgames with excellent physical quality I have ever met in a chess book built. 6- Chess secret series : Giants of innovation.( 288 pages)
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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #22 - 12/05/11 at 09:07:58	Post Tools	Print Post
	Just so there's a record here and to save ppl looking it up later: The two Vigorito volumes on the KID and the Williams book on the French were published in 2011.


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gramsci Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 210 Joined: 11/11/09	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #21 - 12/05/11 at 08:18:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	Vigorito and Avrukh's two books on the King's Indian and the Grunfeld


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LostTactic Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 336 Joined: 02/19/11	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #20 - 12/04/11 at 18:08:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think Vigorito's 2 King's Indian books were very good, but my favourite this year was Attacking Chess: The French by Williams, rich with explanations and gives the plans + ideas behind the moves, I also found the game format quite refreshing and I think his suggestion are good for practical club players who want to have an interesting game.


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Book of the year, 2011! Reply #19 - 12/04/11 at 17:32:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	MortalGames, to be honest, I don't think we have very many people voting here who don't contribute. Last year, we had relatively few people voting. I don't think ballot stuffing will be an issue, but I will keep an eye out for it.


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