Peter Lalic wrote on 04/19/14 at 20:42:36:


Uhmmmm, interesting 

CanadianClub wrote on 04/19/14 at 14:41:29:


Thanks.
No matter what move order White chooses in the mainline, Black practically always castles on the seventh and thrusts a pawn forward on the eighth. Thus my recommendation against Fischer's plan features the flank attack ...a5-a4, followed by an inevitable ...d5. These positions are much more fun, and easy to play, than the tense ...Qa5 + ...d6 (sub-)standard Dragons.

RdC wrote on 04/19/14 at 18:38:38:


If there has been, I don't recall it.  I've been struck by how uncommon this old line seems to be these days.
I guess the choice between 8...Ng8 and 8...Nd5 is a matter of taste -- at least I've been accustomed to seeing them both regarded as leading to approximate equality with best play.

On a maybe offhand note, I was surprised to notice a GM (I think) recently playing in a way I associate with Fischer-Panno 1958:  7. Bc4 0-0 8. f3.  I wonder if that was intentional/prepared.

Peter Lalic wrote on 04/17/14 at 18:13:29:


Nice to see here another author 

In the main line: early Qa5 before castling or castling and then a5 to get d5 possible?

Good luck with the book !!

Judging by Everyman's positive response, it sounds like you will be pleasantly surprised! By the way, the book is indeed arriving in the next week or two.

Here are the contents, for your information:

1 The Main Line: Yugoslav Attack Attempts 11
2 The Main Line: 7 Bc4  43
3 The Main Line: Classical Variation  70
4 White Deviations  95
5 Maróczy Bind: Strategic Ideas  110
6 Maróczy Bind: Gurgenidze Variation  136

But the book is supposed to be coming out this month.

Incidentally it seems 320 was also the page count of "comprehensive" books on the AD by Nielsen/Hansen and Silman/Donaldson (both 1998).  But if that is true of Silman/Donaldson, it somehow bulked up by almost 100 pages from the 1993 edition ...

176 should be more than plenty It only took Greet 320 pages to cover pretty well everything about the accelerated dragon in the starting out book.
(How/whether it'll justify itself vs that Greet book I'm less sure.).