Alias wrote on 06/12/13 at 06:32:12:


Does sound like a potentially very interesting book. Be interesting to know what he intends against the Indian defences.

It would be interesting to know a bit more about the details of the repertoire. I like the emphasis on understanding and less focus on specific variations, but I guess that over the three books there will be quite many critical lines. After all, we hope to have an advantage as white.

Overall I like Chess stars books quite much. They are written by authors who are strong players, know their subject very well and the contents are usually to the point, not having excessive amount of text or lines.

TonyRo wrote on 06/11/13 at 22:34:32:

Quality Chess is about to start a couple of 1.e4 series, a 2 volume "light" one from John Shaw and a 5 (I think) volume "heavy" one from Jacob Aagaard.

Just saw this interesting announcement at 
http://chess-stars.com/Future_Plans.html

A Practical White Repertoire with 1.d4 and 2.c4. 
Volume 1: The Queen's Gambit
by Alexey Kornev

Excerpts from the intro:

"As our main opening weapon for White we have chosen the closed openings 
arising after 1.d2-d4, in which an understanding of chess and a knowledge of 
the typical resources in the middle game and the endgame are often much 
more important than a detailed knowledge of a large number of variations. We 
have analysed the most straightforward possibilities for White, generally based 
on the development of the knight to c3 and the fastest possible occupation 
of the centre with pawns.

Unfortunately it is impossible to cover all the possible theory after 1.d2-d4 for 
White within a single book, so the author plans to publish two further volumes.

The first book is devoted to the move 1...d7-d5 for Black. I believe 
that the most challenging defences for White to face are the Queen's Gambit 
Accepted (Part 2), the Queen's Gambit Declined (Part 4) and the Slav Defence 
(Part 5). A few less popular options for Black are covered in Parts 1 and 3. 
In the second book we shall deal with the openings in which Black 
fianchettoes his dark-squared bishop. These are first and foremost the Gruenfeld 
and the King's Indian Defence. In book three we shall 
analyse in detail the Nimzo-Indian Defence and a few other defences not covered 
in our first two books. This series has been written for players of all levels. The 
author hopes that it will be useful for grandmasters as well as for amateur players." 


There´s much material for 1d4 mainline players/starters:
Avrukh, Kaufman, Watson, Schandorff und now this. It´s 
probably best to buy/study all and mix one´s own repertoire?

tracke