MartinC wrote on 05/29/14 at 08:33:24:


Can't quite see how...didnt he have a reputation for putting out books as quickly as Keane and more recently Lakdawala? 

Also, does Chess Magazine require much editing? Not sure how big their readership is anymore...i used to read both that and BCM twenty years ago but neither interest me anymore unfortunately,   

Looks like Everyman have ditched this book! Not on their website anymore. Such a shame!

When he wrote it there wasn't very much to put about 6 ..  Ng4 Not many real games, no real databases etc. So you could just have a few ideas, turn up and have fun. Now of course.....

@najdorfslayer: the repertoire choices you mention are all covered in King's book Winning with the Najdorf. Of course this is quite an old book (1992), but I mention it in the sense that there exists an option to get 90% of the main ideas & lines out from that book and fill in the gaps with own study.

btw for a club player these are very practical choices (all of them)..

I have the original, but not the revised addition. The revised lines against Be3 and 6.g3 are the same is in GM6. Not really a fan of the Poisoned Pawn and I can't see the 6.f4 and 6.Be2 lines changing too much, so I would prefer to wait until GM6b comes out middle of next year. 

I just think that Palliser has the chance to do something different and give some lines that haven't been written about for a long time. Rather than the other two Sharpest Sicilian and GM6 that seem to recommend the same things in a lot of cases. 

Everyman said basically long way of publishing and nothing has been decided as yet.

Bibs wrote on 11/02/12 at 01:04:19:


Okay I have done, I await their reply! 

Just wondering what lines Palliser will recommend in this book, particularly the 6.Bg5 lines.

What I would like to see against the main moves at move 6 are ;

Against 6.f4 
I would like to see 6...Qc7 with a K-side fianchetto, reason being Ftacnik covers 6...e6 and Georgiev covers 6...e5 (I know he also covers 6...Qc7 but he only skims over it!).

Against 6.Bc4
Maybe 6..e6 7.Bb3 Nbd7 lines. I know there are some move order issues here but 7...b5 is covered in the two other recent books mentioned.

Against 6.Be3
Maybe try 6...Ng4 again 6..e6 and 6...e5 are covered well elsewhere.

Against 6.Bg5
I would like to see the Old Main Line with 6...e6 7.f4 Be7 covered, this has not been covered in literature for a while and I feel it is the easiest for a club player to understand.

Against 6.Be2
Well I think he only has one option really and that is to play 6...e5.. I think that 6...e6 is going to done again by Ftacnik/Aagaard in GM6b and 6...e6 was done well in the Sicilian Scheveningen move by move.

Main reasons for these choices are that the other stuff are done elsewhere to a good standard. The only thing to offer here to make the book worth while is something a bit different!

Opinions please