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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #62 - 07/12/12 at 21:26:31
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First book is supposed to be out tomorrow, Friday July 13, according to the QC blog site .... http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/blog/?p=1080#comment-5994
  
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Reply #61 - 07/12/12 at 21:23:17
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Anyone knows when the schandorf repertoire is coming?
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #60 - 06/09/12 at 06:59:44
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gwnn wrote on 06/08/12 at 10:47:27:

I don't want to be off-topic though, so I'm just curious, does Watson actually prove an edge for White vs the Benkő gambit? I thought Qc2 was harmless.


I think Watsons philosophy for this book can be summed up as follows at the end of the grunfeld chapter.

"i can't emphasize enough that the main goal of both the 7. Bg5 and 7. Qa4+ variations is not so much to obtain minor theoretical advantages (which is sometimes impossible anyway if Black plays accurately), as to get playable, strategically complex middlegames and endgames, an aim which these variations accomplish better than most."

Though with the  Benkő Watson "believes 4. Qc2 gives white some advantage in every line."


  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #59 - 06/08/12 at 19:40:25
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John Watson is my teacher, and he was kind enough to allow me to use some of the 1.d4 materials in my own preparation.  Here's a game in the 7.Bg5 Grunfeld that I played in the Team4545 league over at ICC.  Despite my horrific time management and endgame play later on, I got a great opening position due to John's analysis.

  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #58 - 06/08/12 at 10:47:27
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BTW the correct spelling is Élő (the last vowel is the long form of ö in Hungarian, the first one is pronounced much like "keer" in Dutch). The same goes for Benkő, but he lived a long time in America and there he was known as Benko.

I don't want to be off-topic though, so I'm just curious, does Watson actually prove an edge for White vs the Benkő gambit? I thought Qc2 was harmless.
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #57 - 06/08/12 at 10:44:28
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Stefan Buecker wrote on 06/08/12 at 08:52:17:
After so many years of refuting 1.d4, it is a bit annoying that still new 1.d4 books appear. But I'll have to buy this one...


I wonder what the recommendation is against 1 ...h6  Grin
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #56 - 06/08/12 at 08:52:17
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Willempie wrote on 06/08/12 at 07:08:54:
ue is a normal replacement for ü, as even Germans have come to the realisation that not everybody uses their idiotic keyboard.

English is the main language. Fide will eventually ban all opening names with an umlaut, I am sure. Benkö -> Benko, Elö -> Elo, Döry -> Dory, Grünfeld Indian -> Grunfeld Defence, and so on. 

After so many years of refuting 1.d4, it is a bit annoying that still new 1.d4 books appear. But I'll have to buy this one...
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #55 - 06/08/12 at 07:08:54
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Konstriktor wrote on 06/07/12 at 13:20:44:
He mentions specifically in his introduction a certain Stefan Bücker for his analysis of many original variations. 
Is this the German, Austrian or Swiss way of spelling?


Others specifically mentioned (from memory) are Palliser, Avrukh and some other which I forgot.

ue is a normal replacement for ü, as even Germans have come to the realisation that not everybody uses their idiotic keyboard.
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #54 - 06/07/12 at 19:03:45
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Konstriktor wrote on 06/07/12 at 13:20:44:
He mentions specifically in his introduction a certain Stefan Bücker for his analysis of many original variations. 
Is this the German, Austrian or Swiss way of spelling?


Others specifically mentioned (from memory) are Palliser, Avrukh and some other which I forgot.


I think Germany, Austria, and some parts of Switzerland all speak German, although different dialects, and all use the umlaut (ü) which I think sounds slightly similar to "eu" in French like in "peut-ętre".

Anyway, how does Watson answer analyses by Avrukh, Dembo, etc.? And how do you like 7. Bg5/7. Qa4 and the King's Indian choices?
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #53 - 06/07/12 at 13:35:56
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Konstriktor wrote on 06/07/12 at 13:20:44:
He mentions specifically in his introduction a certain Stefan Bücker for his analysis of many original variations.


Grin "a certain"...
Hi, Stefan!.. Anything in common with these "many original variations"?..  Tongue
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
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He mentions specifically in his introduction a certain Stefan Bücker for his analysis of many original variations. 
Is this the German, Austrian or Swiss way of spelling?


Others specifically mentioned (from memory) are Palliser, Avrukh and some other which I forgot.
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #51 - 06/07/12 at 12:50:13
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Konstriktor wrote on 06/07/12 at 12:44:04:
He mentions in the book which analyses/sources he uses, except when it concerns wrong analysis when he correctly states something like "an author proposed..."

Correctly? If he quotes one of my analyses on the Englund Gambit, and I've made a mistake, I want to be credited for it!

I like John Watson's books, almost all of them. They usually do have a bibliography. But funny things can happen, e.g. the German translation of his bibliography of Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy contained a howler which certainly doesn't come from Watson himself. A missing bibliography? I guess that this decision probably was made by the publisher. Was this new book published by Quantity Chess?
  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #50 - 06/07/12 at 12:47:51
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To get a complaint out of the way before attending to the more important matters, I have to say that the lack of a Bibliography in Wells' Grandmaster Secrets is disappointing, and unusual for a Gambit publication. A Bibliography is arguably not vital when the subject is 1 Na3, but the Caro-Kann is one of the major openings in chess, and its fans presumably don't want to go hunting around their libraries to ascertain which sources might or might not have been consulted, and which good moves missed. Wells' book has a lot of detail about specific moves, so it would be nice to at least know at what Informant or TWIC issue or NIC Yearbook he stopped his research. 

From John Watson: http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/jwatsonbkrev85.html
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #49 - 06/07/12 at 12:44:04
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I think Watson made a choice. If a publisher works with sets of 16 pages he got 16x17=272 pages. (I think beforehand he got 208 pages but managed to get more from Nunn).

It is impossible for him to cut down on analysis, so he skipped the probably immense biography.

He mentions in the book which analyses/sources he uses, except when it concerns wrong analysis when he correctly states something like "an author proposed..."


  
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Re: What will Schandorff and Watson recommend?
Reply #48 - 06/07/12 at 11:38:00
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It's just weird that he doesn't include a bibliography, what's wrong if there is 2-3 pages of it? If he worked so hard with so many books, it is not a problem to show it.
  
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