After reading Williams recent book, and despite the main lines not being theoretically watertight for black, I've decided to give this opening a go. At my level, i'm pretty happy to play a thematical hack on the kingside.

Sort of played two games so far, the first a souped up version against the English, where i sacrificed two pieces to open up and mate my opponent and a dutch position that transposed from an exchange Alekhine that bamboozled my opponent and i was able to win after using some ideas i picked up in the book.

So safe to say that i'm learning a lot and finding it fun 

Simon is playing a classical dutch set up today against Romanishin at Hastings. He's about an hour up on the clock, just as things are getting hairy - He's sacked one knight and is going give up another piece for an attack on white's king...he's ran out of attack

     

najdorfslayer wrote on 03/13/15 at 20:33:00:


This pretty well sums it up. It's nowhere near as comprehensive as Tony's Killer Sicilian book and its surprising its in the same series. It's also not as good as his book on the french.

I found it odd that so much of the book is given over to lines that he thinks are dubious or busted. Its not even just the mainlines but also the 2. bg5 line where he gives an early Rh7.

Still after all that criticism i enjoyed reading it (i'm a fairly weak player) and maybe the classical dutch is in relatively poor shape and he is just being fair in his assessment..

Bibs wrote on 03/13/15 at 11:08:21:

Bibs wrote on 03/13/15 at 11:08:21:


Well 3 major chapters on the Main line. He gives lots of data on ...a5 saying, he doesn't play it any more because it's basically busted.

He then gives another major chapter on ...Qe8 saying that he doesn't rate it and that he has a 0/4 score with it.

He then gives a chapter on ...Nc6 saying it's dubious but a good surprise weapon.

All that I could possibly t
live with but does not inspire me to take up the Dutch.

Also the book is very thick. But most of it is not analysis but overloaded with needless diagrams. Analysis not so deep.

I need to read it a bit more and I may change my mind, it's just personal taste but compared to say a Quality Chess book it doesn't cut it.

I am sure others may like it. Me personally didn't

I got it today after reading it I am not overly impressed

DenVerdsligeRejsende wrote on 03/06/15 at 00:39:48:



Yes, sorry. Not sure where i thought i had read that the date was now April...maybe i misread the US date for the UK/EU one 

I hope there are no serious problems behind the scenes at Everyman. As they have a new website, i'm guessing there are none. Maybe it's my imagination but it does seem that their books are being delayed more often than in the past, and their details of new books are not being updated on Amazon as quickly (some of the books recently released, or being released soon dont have the preview pages or even pictures up yet.)

TonyRo wrote on 03/05/15 at 01:00:18:



If it is a direct port, i hope he has some recent stuff in it. Be a shame if it is just pretty much the ebook, unless few people got it originally.

I might give it a spin if the lines are straightforward enough (or rather, allow black a straightforward hack on the kingside  ). Reading through the excerpt, his writing seems a little more aggressive than his book on the french which i really enjoyed reading.