Does anyone know when volume 2 Sniper Henley will come out?
Thanks

What does he reccomand against

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c5 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. c3 *

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Got the book today. Physically, it's pretty typical, 396 pages, paper is good quality, printing is clear and so on.

The Introduction runs 27 pages and includes topics like "Why I Play The Sniper!", and "Win With Black!" The Introduction concludes with a sample game, acknowledgements, and an explanation of notation.

The next section starts the real meat of the book, the "Sniper Weapons Manual." This is about 30 pages on typical themes in The Sniper, how to use the Sniper Bishop, when to relocate it, when to trade it, where to find outposts for the Knights, piece sacrifices, when to delay castling and so on. Each one of these topics is covered in a short introduction, some diagrams and then references to the 64 annotated games.

The next section on Pawn Play follows the same structure, covering things like the D5 pawn break, the E5 pawn advance, the E5-D5 Pawn Duo and the F6 Pawn Advance among others. Pawn sacrifices and passed pawns are also covered here.

The 64 annotated games follow and make up the bulk of the book. Many of these games start out 1 e4, c5 before transposing back into the pure Sniper. Each annotated game contains plentiful diagrams highlighting important features of the game, and a good amount of annotations. There's also a recap explaining important moments and sometimes bonus games covering other White moves in the given variation.

There's a lot of material here, and while I'm not strong enough to comment on the quality of the analysis, it certainly looks like Henley has done a pretty thorough job, and the book features a lot of this own games, so he does play the opening himself.

Also, Volume 1 mainly covers 1. e4 & 2 d4. Volume 2 is going to cover the queenside version.

Henley's book on The Sniper got another 5-star review at Amazon, this time from a FIDE Master. Based on two good reviews I decided to order the book. I'm expecting to arrive tomorrow.

I'm still not sure about the opening, but I'm interested enough to take a $25 gamble.

Indeed Henley was second of Karpov and this has something to say, but he is not an active player or active in general for many years. The last year he issued lot's of DVD's for Alapin sicilian ( in a way I can say it was a decent job, but I prefer  Svesnikov's book) and Dzidzi Indian. These DVD'S have Crushing or things like that in their title. All the top GM's after the publication of the book and they will start to crush white by playing the sniper!! Let's be serious, Sniper it is good for OTB club games and only for that, above 2400 ELO you are playing with fire. Also, for sure this book would be unkown if our friend did not informed us. Also, the unkown publisher it is something that it does not give more credits to him. Sowrey wrote a book, ok it is not a GM but his is active and plays that opening. I doubt if Henely ever touch the Sniper in his active career. Before any possible buy , we must see how they will be evaluated by the critics.

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In the old days tournamaents with more than 20 rounds were not uncommon.The tournament in Surakatra was strong when you look at the participants: W. Brown, Chandler, Christiansen, Sosonko, Hort, Miles etc. When he won the tournmaent he had a rating of  2460, this is today at least 2610.

It is also wellknown that he was second of Karpov. And then you should consider he had a successfull business
career so that Chess was not every time the No1 in his life.

Carld wrote on 02/17/12 at 01:41:43:


Was really referring to earlier, rather unpleasant,  'sniper' discussion.
But the 26 player APA tourney does look rather unusual, must be said. Not come across one before. The only one ever so big?
Particularly as the GM is now so low rated (2415, only just enough for IM), with poor recent results. The more skeptical out there may arch an eyebrow of query at such, but if legit, it's legit.

But sorry to distract.

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse.

Looked him up, an unusual route to GM title: a 26 player all-play-all. Really?
Anyone have more details? Our US friends?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Henley