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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #20 - 02/10/12 at 19:46:01
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I find the opposite; playing against the Grünfeld is more unpleasant than playing against the Slav. But I play fianchetto against the King's Indian, which would be pleasant to play.
  
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Reply #19 - 02/10/12 at 18:26:20
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Well the KID/Grunfeld are perfectly fine to good fun play against.  Nizmo English too, with the g4 theme even thematically consistent Wink

The Symmetrical English probably the bit which gets a bit trickier to get sharp, although the early d4 stuff is fairly lively. Actually the old main line of that is very sharp, just seemingly not so great for white.
  
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Reply #18 - 02/10/12 at 16:42:31
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MNb wrote on 02/10/12 at 16:36:48:
The book looks excellent indeed and I'm tempted to take up 1.Nf3. Alas Delchev doesn't address 1.Nf3 Nf6. So I looked up the games by Stefanova and Delchev himself and here their choices are much less attractive.
So perhaps Delchev on Réti Volume 2 is a good idea?


Yes, this is only really a repertoire vs Slav, QGD etc (i.e. 1..d5)

So there's no coverage of KID, Grunfeld etc.
  
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Reply #17 - 02/10/12 at 16:36:48
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The book looks excellent indeed and I'm tempted to take up 1.Nf3. Alas Delchev doesn't address 1.Nf3 Nf6. So I looked up the games by Stefanova and Delchev himself and here their choices are much less attractive.
So perhaps Delchev on Réti Volume 2 is a good idea?
  
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Reply #16 - 02/10/12 at 11:47:13
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I have no doubt that this book written by my compatriot Alexander Delchev will be an excellent pearl in the Chess Stars bibliography. Knowing him for many years (though I retired from the competitive OTB chess since 1994) I can state here he is one of the best chess theoreticians in our country. And not only that!.. He is an explorer in chess - he always analyses in great depth doing his own researches in the opening fields where no final conclusions are drawn. He also gives help to our young chess players in their opening preparation, does opening preparation seminars at tournaments never trying to hide his profound knowledge in this field and so on...and so on.. No wonder why Mr Semkov has chosen him as one of his main authors for Chess Stars.  Wink
  
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Reply #15 - 02/10/12 at 11:17:03
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Well, what the exert says is that there are going to be three lines there. Only mentions the two mind - 3 b4 f6 4 e3 e5 5 c5 a5 6 Bb5+ c6 7 Bc4 as the 'main' idea and 3 e3 Nc6 4 b4.

He calls it 'slightly out of step with the rest of the book', presumably because these things are getting a bit more towards dangerous weapons territory than the rest. Probably entirely effective over the board mind, and maybe there is genuine theoretical interest in there.
  
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Reply #14 - 02/10/12 at 11:11:31
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After reading the excerpt, this books looks very interesting indeed!
  
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Reply #13 - 02/10/12 at 10:11:05
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Chessexplained wrote on 02/10/12 at 10:06:02:
I am very curious about this book as well, especially about the analysis on 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 3.b4 f6 - this is imho the main problem with this move order. Delchev's line(s) there will be based mostly on own new ideas, as there are only very few good level games to look at.
If this is fine for white, 2.c4 is just superior to 2.d4 and 2.g3 in terms of flexibility/move order issues.

Not according to Kramnik. His answer to 1...d5 (after 1.Nf3) is always 2.d4.. And we all know he knows something about this 1.Nf3 opening.  Wink
  
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #12 - 02/10/12 at 10:06:02
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I am very curious about this book as well, especially about the analysis on 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 3.b4 f6 - this is imho the main problem with this move order. Delchev's line(s) there will be based mostly on own new ideas, as there are only very few good level games to look at.
If this is fine for white, 2.c4 is just superior to 2.d4 and 2.g3 in terms of flexibility/move order issues.
  
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #11 - 02/10/12 at 08:14:29
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The (lengthy!) except can also found on the Chess stars web page. I like it a lot. The topic has not been well covered before and Delchev seems to have lots of new ideas.

I play the slav myself and was caught in the Rg1 lines last year. They seem easier to play for white. A further incentive, as pointed out by the author, is that black seldom studies these lines in much detail. I hadn't done so.

I like many of the Chess stars books. Well chosen topics, written by top level players who seems to know their subjects very well. They never seem to hold back any information either.
  
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Reply #10 - 02/10/12 at 07:00:40
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I emailed Semko on the 31st of Jan and he was very quick to answer that the books (also Vitiugov's French Reloaded) were going to be released about Feb 20!
  
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #9 - 02/10/12 at 00:40:15
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I just see the excerpt for this book:

http://www.chessdirect.co.uk/acatalog/x8287.pdf

It looks interesting; I did not know that so much theory existed for these lines, and in some cases, I did not know that these lines even existed.

I see a new addition with the "Points to Remember" box at the end of the "Main Ideas" chapter in the excerpt.

Does anyone know when in February this book is due to be published?
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #8 - 02/03/12 at 09:48:05
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Well since theory is really accumulated experience, yes its inevitable for anything good enough for real GM games Smiley (and this has seen some.).
  
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #7 - 02/02/12 at 21:19:12
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I have never even heard of this system before. Perhaps in this era even openings that are anti-theory are starting to acquire their own theoretical analyses? When the Trompowsky was played in its initial years, it was to avoid theory; now there is quite a bit of theory on the Trompowsky. Maybe this pattern will follow with other openings as well?
  
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Re: Delchev on Reti
Reply #6 - 02/02/12 at 19:08:35
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As I remember there's a fair number of games on it in the flank openings chess pub section. (not recently but a couple of years back.). Kosten did a chapter in the dangerous weapons flanks openings too.

Personally I can't quite decide whether to be excited or depressed that something so originally anti theory deserves a whole repitoire book now Smiley
  
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