Seeley wrote on 01/12/13 at 15:17:45:


Would you be willing to share the "various places" in the book that you found superficial?

In my opinion the book does not fulfil it´s intention as an introduction. But that may have to do with the difficult subject.

But if you have Tiger´s book and some prior experience with the Modern there are some interesting things in the book. He recommends 8... Nh6 instead of 8... c5 in one of the critical lines of the Austrian Attack.

Unfortunately it´s also quite superficial in various places so I would only give it 2 out of 5 Stars.

I have hardly any experience with the Sniper, but I have Storey's book which I like. I was trying to use 1...g6, 2...Bg7 and 3...c5 as a transpositional device a couple of times (Dragon, Benko) and as a surprise weapon, but I have already abandoned it.

I have recently looked at the position you mention, and indeed didn't like it that much.

It's only about 3 .. d6. There are some repertoire choices here and there but the repertoire is based largely on Tiger's Modern.

In the move order you give, [u]4 …Bg4[/u] is indeed interesting, as, I believe, is [u]4 ...c6[/u] also. On ChessLive, [u]4 ...Nd7[/u] scores reasonably as well; if 5 e4, 5 ...e5 transposes into the 4 ...Nd7!? Averbakh line given below. I didn't know that [u]4 ...Nc6!?[/u] was also an interesting idea here, because I had never seen 5 d5 [u]Na5!?[/u]. Thanks, Vass!

(In the 1 e4 g6 2 d4 Bg7 3 c4 move order, the ‘traditional’ wisdom is that alternatives to going into a KID via 3 …d6 4 Nc3 Nf6 are possibly slightly dubious/inferior, but as well as 4 …e5 and 4 …Nc6 there’s 4 …Nd7!?, which has been strengthened in recent years with the discovery of 5 Nf3 e5 6 Be2 c6 7 0-0 Nh6! 8 c5 dc 9 dc Qc7!. There’s also Nigel Davies’ 4 …a6!?, while on move three Black can also try 3 …c5 meeting 4 d5 with the plan of …d6, …e6 and …Ne7. But Black can also adopt the move order 1 e4 g6 2 d4 d6, meeting 3 c4 with 3 …e5!?, when, in the event of 4 de, he gains from not having committed his dark-squared Bishop. There are threads on most of these options in the Daring Defences part of the Forum which it should be possible to find by searching.)

Looks like a nice book to me, although some of the metaphors are really superfluous and not witty anymore.

Is there any way I could avoid the ending after
1 d4 g6 2 c4 Bg7 3 Nc3 d6 4 Nf3 e5 and a queen swap? It looks very scary from the book. Tiger doesn't cover non-e4 lines so far as I can see and this I wouldn't like to play.

Of course I could play the KID (I know a few lines and that should be enough at my level) but I wonder if there's something other than that? I was thinking 4 .. Bf5? I also see in a database that maybe 4 .. Bg4 could work. White doesn't have a big centre yet so that's kind of hard to put pressure on.

MNb wrote on 09/16/12 at 15:25:17:


Sounds like a great rule...for checkers 

Wow, another HUGE sample on amazon.co.uk. Yes, the goofiness is less than I thought based on that Siamese comment.