heavypieces wrote on 09/27/16 at 00:40:45:


I'm not sure why you would think that.  Does A42 generally transpose to a KID? 

Reverse wrote on 09/19/16 at 03:56:21:


The book arrived at Chess & Bridge in London at some point last week.  Here’s a more detailed table of contents (section titles from the book rather than my interpretation) than I’ve found online.


Chapter 1: The King’s Fianchetto
Section A: Presentation
B: The main danger for the king’s fianchetto
C: Typical fianchetto structures
D: Activating the fianchettoed bishop
E: Attacking against a king’s fianchetto - Defending with the king’s fianchetto

Each of the above sections contains material and then a series of exercises relating to the theme.


Chapter 2: The Modern Defence against 1 e4
A: The Austrian Attack
B: Against 4 Be3
C: Other systems

Chapter 3: White plays 1 d4 and others
A: Main Lines
B: Other Lines
C: Supplement: The ... Bxc3 theme

Chapter 4: Repertoire for White
A: Reversed King’s Indian
B: Reversed Pirc
C: Black plays the 'mirror'
D: Black plays the Dutch: Anti-Dutch  system with e2-e4 and c2-c3
E: Black plays ... e7-e6 and ... d7-d5


Chapters 2-4 the format for each sub-section is, introductory material (analysis of various lines); an outline of thematic 'strategic motifs’; illustrative games; exercises

Chapter 5: Exercises




I have some comments on the material itself but I’ll have to save those for another day.

HI

From the introduction the approach seems to resemble Larsen/Zeuthen in "Zoom 001 Zero Hour for Operative Chess Opening Models" just with a Kings Indian structure instead. 

regards,
Lars

Reverse wrote on 09/19/16 at 03:56:21:


Quote:

Btw, "113 days to go" is probably accurate too. There's often a three month delay for the cheaper big book sites, to give the specialist shops a head start.

I am confused as to the actual status of this book. 

After sitting in 'Forthcoming! for the longest time on the NIC website,  it now looks like it's been published. 

But my pre-order through a large online bookseller is trumpeting '113 days to go!'. 

Nor has it appeared on Forward Chess. 

On another note,  I like the look of the excerpt.

TD wrote on 09/15/16 at 12:41:51:


As often with such books, it claims that you can avoid having to know lots of theory, but then proceeds to recommend systems for Black such as the Mar del Plata in the Kings Indian where you can be dead if you fail to recall the correct continuation at around move 20. 

Using the Kings Indian as a main defence has the advantage of not needing to know much special against 1. Nf3 or 1. c4 .