4.e3 looks like the line that will probably be picked looking at the QC blog, Jacob says the Nimzo chapter starts with 3 of Botvinik's games.  The Saemisch or four pawns against the KID.
Not sure if anyone guessed the Grunfeld line correct, I thought Russian or Exchange with Be3 but no conformation from Jacob, only that I got 3 guesses right, but he won't say which ones. 

Here were my guesses,

Nimzo-4.e3 or 4.f3
KID-Saemisch
Grunfeld-Russian or Exchange with Be3.
Dutch-Classical fianchetto
Benoni-Four pawns or 6.e4
Benko-Declined

Until then, I am enjoyong Kaufman's Rep. for White and Black, some interesting lines and alteritives to Playing the Queens Gambit QC.  Like the Bishop sac line in the Slav, I like both variations in each book leading to different types of games.  So now I can choose which line depending on my opp. and mood.  Looking forward to Playing 1.d4 the Indain defenses QC.

Also Kaufman's updates in his new book on the Classical 4.Qc2 Nimzo along with Challenging the Nimzo QC together are great coverage if you play this line.

I'm really hoping for the e3 Nimzo because imo this is an awesome choice for a repertoire but strangely neglected by book authors.
KID Sämisch would be OK although i never tried it. I don't think the exchange Grünfeld is possible within a repertoire book with only 1 volume, but Schandorff has fit both the Botwinnik and the anti-Moscow into one part of a book (with mixed success one has to say) so he might try it.

Zwischenzugzwang wrote on 02/26/12 at 13:17:07:


Actually, I wrote my predictions on the Quality Chess blog and Aagaard said I was only 50% correct, without saying which two were correct.

Schadorff: Ambitious mainlines.
Watson: Slightly less ambitious lines. Watson was quite critical of the choices in the d4 book by Cox.

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Antillian wrote on 02/25/12 at 09:25:26:


I'm not sure how far Schandorff's praxis is so relevant; I had a cursory look at his games from 2008 til now, and there are a lot of different systems, many of them with a king's side fianchetto. As Avrukh has covered fianchetto lines in the Grünfeld, King's Indian and Benkö, I don't think that Schandorff would go for similar lines. The KI Sämisch seems a good guess to me, as this was also not covered in Markos' "Beat the KID" (2008).

The Rubinstein? I'm not sure - would one call that a space grabbing system without compromises?? Rather the Classical with 5.e4 (in case of 4...0-0), or, following Gilchrist, 4.f3 (which I would also appreciate), although that might be too off-beat. The Classical was covered by Vigorito in 2007, but one could argue that Vigorito's "Challenging the Nimzo-Indian" was not a repertoire book, and in some of the variations (the aforementioned 5.e4-line in particular), quite some developments have happened since then.

Dutch Fianchetto with c4 - what else?

Benoni Modern line also seems to be a plausible choice.

As argued before, I don't think that Schandorff would cover any Grünfeld Fianchetto line. I would guess some line with 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 - Schandorff has shown in his Queen's Gambit book that he's not afraid of discussing lines with heavy theory, and those systems are quite "space-grabbing".

What else? He doesn't need to cover the Queen's Indian, if he goes for the Nimzo, and then the Benkö ... There my overview is too limited to make any "educated guess".

By the way - how do you know of that book? I don't visit the QC site very often, but from time to time, and I haven't seen anything about it. Do they give a date for publication (+ 1 year  )?

Best regards,

Zwischenzugzwang

I still think the other lines are viable guesses, but re-reading that quote, perhaps the King's Indian: Gligoric and Grünfeld: 4. Bg5 Ne4 5. Bf4, or maybe both Fianchetto for King's Indian and Grünfeld.

Gilchrist is a legend wrote on 02/25/12 at 06:38:41:


Considering the introduction I guess he won't cover such theory-heavy lines like Mar del Plata or 7.Bc4 Grünfeld. It would also be difficult to cover them in just about 200 pages.

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