Thanks for all your replies. I'd missed quite a lot of the d4 repertoire books, but I think I've got a good list now. I spent the weekend organising my material and having a look through bits of it.

I've changed my plan for going through it. Originally it was going to be purely chronological, but now I think I will go through the following opening groups in chronological order:

1. Austrian    4. f4
2. Argentine  4. f3 or 4. Be3 with a later f3
3. Classical    4. Nf3
4. Byrne        4. Bg5
5. Others

There are some transpositions, but eventually the split is like this. Note I'm not calling anything the 150 Attack. I think now this is really a plan, rather than an opening, the plan being to attack a Black castled king with h4-h5, but it can be combined various set ups with e.g. f3 or Nf3 or Be3 or Bg5.

Austrian

Year,Publisher,Author,Title,Rep 1976,Batsford,Barden/Harding,Batsford Guide to Chess Openings,4. f4 e5 1979,Chess Player,Baker,2nd Line for White,4. f4 e5 1996,Cadogan,Gufeld,Attacking,4. f4 0-0 Be3/c5 Bb5 1998,Batsford,Baker,Startling,4. f4 0-0 Be3/c5 Bb5 2003,Trafford,Acers/Laven,Guiding Repertoire for White,4. f4 e5 2005,Everyman,Davies,Gambiteer,4. f4 a3 2005,Chess Stars,Khalifman,According to Anand,4. f4 0-0 Bd3/c5 Bb5+Bxd7 2005,New In Chess,Lalic/Okhotnik,Carpathian Warrior,4. f4 various 2011,Everyman,Greet,Beating Unusual,4. f4 0-0 Be3/c5 dxc+Qd4 2014,Mongoose,Tamburro,For Amateurs,4. f4 e5

I was a little surprised this came out on top. I rarely get the Austrian, and only from stronger players. However a popular recommendation is with an early e5 push. I'd never considered this as a wise choice, as it's Black that gets the choice of tactical chaos or an equal ending.

Argentine

Year,Publisher,Author,Title,Rep 1975,Oxford University Press,Walker,Chess Openings For Juniors,4. f3 Be3 1997,Batsford,Burgess/Pedersen,Beating the Indian Defences,4. Be3 f3 2001,Everyman,Emms,Attacking,4. Be3 f3 2003,Trafford,Acers/Laven,Guiding Repertoire for White,4. f3 Be3 2004,McKay,Kaufman,Advantage,4. Be3 f3 2006,Everyman,McDonald,Starting Out 1.e4,4. Be3 f3 2012,New in Chess,Kaufman,Repertoire in Black and White,4. Be3 f3 2013,Chess Stars,Kornev,Practical White 2,4. Be3 f3 2016,New In Chess,Moret,First,4. f3 Be3

This is what might be referred to as the 150, but I prefer its newer adopted named of the Argentine. Very dangerous and very interesting!

The old juniors book only has 1 line with 9 moves and a tiny sub line, but after that there seems to have been a late surge in recommendations, even from d4 books!

Classical

Year,Publisher,Author,Title,Rep 1979,Batsford,Cafferty,Chess Opening For You,4. Nf3 Be2 1983,Pergamon,Mendis,From the Opening Into the Endgame,4. Nf3 Be2 1998,Everyman,Summerscale,Killer,4. Nf3 Be3 2003,Trafford,Acers/Laven,Guiding Repertoire for White,4. Nf3 Be2 2004,Everyman,Davies,Dynamic Reti,4. Nf3 Be3+h3 2008,Everyman,Palliser,D-pawn attacks,4. Nf3 Be3 2009,Norton,Dzindzichashvili,White Explained,4. Nf3 Be3+h3 2010,Gambit,Summerscale/Johnson,Killer Enlarged,4. Nf3 Be3

I call lines where White plants Nf3 classical, although it can arrive there at different points,e.g. 2. Nf3 for those d-pawn specials.

There are three approaches which I'm calling:

1. The Karpov        5. Be2
2. The Accelerated Be3/h3
3. The Hebden       Be3/Qd2

On Marin's DVD, he meets 1 and 2 with a c6 set up, but meets 3 with an a6 set up, so it might need different treatment. 

Byrne

Year,Publisher,Author,Title,Rep 1976,Batsford,Barden/Harding,Batsford Guide to Chess Openings,4. Bg5 1984,Batsford,Keene/Levy,For the Attacking Player,4. Bg5 2003,Trafford,Acers/Laven,Guiding Repertoire for White,4. Bg5 2004,Batsford,Collins,Attacking,4. Bg5 2011,Everyman,Lakdawala,Ferocious,4. Bg5 2016,Quality,Shaw,Playing e4,4. Bg5

Dangerous and causing many a Pirc player to scurry off to a Modern move order.

Others

Year,Publisher,Author,Title,Rep 1986,Chess Digest,Soltis,1. e4,3. Bd3 1994,World of Chess,Barlov/Jovicic,White is Better - 1.e2-e4,3. Bd3 2016,Gambit,Collins,Simple,3. Bd3 1996,Cadogan,Gufeld,Positional,3. f3 2012,Quality,Schandorff,Playing 1.d4 - The Indian Defences,3. f3 1980,Chess Player,Thomas,Line for White,4. Bc4 1998,Cardoza,Schiller,Gambit,4. Bc4 1993,Chess Digest,Soltis,Beating the Pirc,4. g3 2009,Chess Information,Chernin/Alburt,Pirc Alert!,4. g3 1992,Chess Digest,Schiller,Winning with 1. e4,Grand Prix 2005,New In Chess,Lalic/Okhotnik,Carpathian Warrior,Spike 2009,Everyman,Palliser,Dangerous Weapons,4. Be3 g4

I've had all sorts of stuff thrown at me over the years. This is a decent summary. g3 has been used by the strong players. Going for an anti-Sicilian is more popular than this list might indicate, especially since so many books offer the Grand Prix as their anti-Sicilian choice.

Straggler wrote on 09/28/16 at 21:22:03:


Not sure what you mean ...3. f3 has the idea of leaving the c-pawn unblocked; I recall Kasparov playing it ...

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So the advantage of 4. f3 is that it might trick your opponent into thinking you are a patzer 

So the advantage of 4. f3 is that it might trick your opponent into thinking you are a patzer 

So for OTB purposes I'm contemplating going back to 4.f3 again.

Later it was realised that you could just move the Bishop and provoking h6 and g5 was likely to be in White's favour.

The 150-Attack replaces f3 with Nf3 and Bd3.