This is a perfect example of how a book should not be written.

From the title to the last page. The complete slav??? For whom?  White? Black? Both? For what level 1800??

The coverage of most variations is bad. The noteboom is just a few pages for example. Its not even a review. You can view it as a proposal for white, but even then it misses a lot of things.

A complete slav book would need few thousand pages. So dont call it complete. If you want to make a slav repertoire book, at least choose sides (white's or black's) and present a complete picture of the opening.

Just try to compare Scherbakov's book (the triangle system) and this. From hero to zero.

this is about the worst opening book I have ever seen, at least from a titled player. it is a complete mess. the chapter titles are poor and there is no index, so it is impossible to find anything. the editing is non-existant. in the Noteboom chapter it repeats the same paragraph.
this may all be tolerable if the content was good. sure, there are probably some good nuggets in there, but if you compare this book to the lines given by Avrukh it is clear that Sakaev did not check anything. It is difficult to see how Sakaev's lines compare to Avrukh in the 4.e3 Bg4 lines because Sakaev's transpositions are such a mess. The Schlecter coverage is more up to date in Avrukh, which is now several years old.
Sakaev's Grunfeld and Anti-Meran books were very good, but this book is junk. Naiditsch should have stayed in bed with Quality Chess.

I have to say that the book is very hard to read, because the lines are not presented as usual. 

Also, there is no main line in vol 1, as mentioned before. 

Anyway, I have already found some new ideas that I haven't seen in previous work on the Slav, and Sakaev adds some verbal comments to explain how he evaluates the finishing positions in the main lines. I think I like the book despite the odd presentation of variations.

I don't see the book in Amazon.  Where can I buy it?

Not main  line...mmmm...

Thanks!

gwnn wrote on 08/30/12 at 22:58:41:

Sorry, I see that now. Wonder how it works with a "complete Slav" without coverage of the main line. Perhaps there is a third volume in the pipeline?!
According to the website vol 2 seems strictly Semi-slav.

Alias has bought the book and he has already posted that it's not covered.

Konstriktor wrote on 08/30/12 at 17:37:18:


Yes.

347 pages + a few extra pages for adds for other CE books.