Semkov wrote on 08/25/13 at 16:39:39:


I purchased the ebook. Looks good!
I believe my long-lasting decision making of what to play against GI is finally over (I already played Samish against KI).

Viking wrote on 08/22/13 at 22:02:58:


The app is free and there are samples from quite many books. You can try yourself!

You should have learned already that every opening system is playable. Even the openly dubious ones, as the Albin, Budapest and similar, are difficult to refute. So it is a matter of style what to choose. If the author has fresh ideas, they can bring many points. 
In the Avrukh case, things are a bit different as he never mentioned in his 2-volume repertoire something every candidate-master in the last 30 years knows - a KI repertoire with g3 has one, but enormous drawback - the system with ...c6, d5 is rock solid. It is the reason no top GM would choose it as a main repertoire (Karpov-Kasparov games were at a purely psychological level). On the contrary, the authors of Wojo's Weapons are more honest and they focus on the practical side.
Svetushkin does not conceal the theoretical problems which White faces in many lines. Sometimes he even suggests strong novelties for Black. In several main lines, evaluated in White's favor, he shows good options for Black instead of keeping the secret for himself.  This is his first book and it is fresh and innovative. I enjoyed editing it.   

Alias wrote on 08/01/13 at 22:57:17:


Hmm, first he publishes a big repertoire tome recommending the Grunfeld and then a book on how to beat / prevent the Grunfeld? 

Really impressive PR from Chess Stars Thank you Mr Semkov for the time you take to listen to and reply to criticism. There are other publishers with other strong points but in this regard Chess Stars is definitely number 1.

Semkov wrote on 08/01/13 at 18:44:33:


Will it be available via Paypal order from your site like a couple of your other titles? I usually use the bookdepository, but the chess-star books are rarely available there.

Ok, let it be Byrne... Vox populi vox dei...
From the Eastern players, nobody will understand what this Byrne Variation is, but they do not write in the forum.  

I guess I'll offer the book for Ipad in 10 days and it will be printed probably in 2 weeks.

gwnn wrote on 08/01/13 at 08:56:10:

Do you think Aisenhauer an accepted alternative for a certain American general and president?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Sämisch

Except in America, who calls it The Byrne Variation?! Googling it will give you mostly a variation in the Pirc. Chess Base also does not seem to associate it with Byrne - I checked the "Classify" option. I know that nobody calls it The Extended Fianchetto either, but at least it describes Black's set-up.

If I put only Samisch in the title, it would also fail to convey a good half of the book. Also, there is a Part 9 where White does not even play Nbc3 and it is an alternative repertoire. So it is not just Samisch.

I added to the Contents the Index of main branches.

Well, that is the force of the feed-back. The book is not printed yet, we might change the title.
How about The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld. A Sämisch Repertoire?

Out of curiosity, how is Dembo's (or Adorján's) 3 .. e5 faring nowadays? I can see that nobody plays it on the top level but it always looked like a fun move to me Unrelated note: is the spelling Sämisch as Samish an accepted alternative or just a typo (sorry, I know it has almost nothing to do with the quality of the book..)?

Maybe, but the sub-title is A White repertoire with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3.
By the way, KID players will be quite surprised to meet new plans in most main systems.

tony37 wrote on 07/31/13 at 15:16:42:

Obviously the author thought that his book did not deserve mentioning it. Chess Stars bibliographies in principle include only books which somehow contributed to the subject and the text contains references to them. 
But 9...f5 and then ...Rfd8 is covered quite deeply indeed, although this line is rather old-fashioned and nobody from the top plays it anymore. 

Igor wrote on 07/31/13 at 18:47:50:

On the contrary, you have both - the Samish AND the Anti-Grunfeld.

kylemeister wrote on 07/31/13 at 18:08:37:

This is covered under the move order 6...c5 6.Ne2 b6. Anyway, it is rather senseless. It was designed to avoid the sac on c5.

There is also 6...b6, though I have the impression that it has long been considered as falling into the "+= with best play" category.

tony37 wrote on 07/31/13 at 15:16:42:

And what is Avrukh's proposition?

will Avrukh's suggestion against 3.f3 be taken in account? I don't see his Grünfeld-book mentioned in the bibliography