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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #16 - 07/03/17 at 11:11:10
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I've gone ahead and purchased this DVD - even if there appear to be lines missing in the contents, the variations that are purported to be covered I'm rather interested in.

One theoretical clip in, and I'm already rather disappointed.

It beings 1 Nf3 g6, at which point Bologan explains he feels 2 e4 is objectively White's best move. Fine. However, after 2...Bg7 he just says "and then we play a Pirc". Unless there's a clip missing , this seems like a serious omission. This is especially true, given he cannot even claim to refer the viewer to a previous DVD (which is disagree with in any case) because White can no longer reach his suggested Austrian Attack.

Anyways, moving on to 1 Nf3 g6 2 e4 c5 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 - he mentions he covered this on his Sicilian DVD for White (which I actually have, but haven't gone back to check his suggestions there yet).   
4...Nc6 5 c4 Nf6 6 Nc3:

Here he checks the Accelerated Gurgenidze with 6...Nxd4, when his coverage does converge with the main line Gurgenidze. Following this, however, he goes 6...d6 7 f3 without discussing the Gurgenidze proper with 7...Nxd4. Presumably White has the normal small advantage here anyways, but given that he wants to play f2-f4 in one of the lines he covered after 6...Nxd4, this perhaps should have been given some more thought.

Returning to 6...d6 7 f3, he briefly goes through a Kasparov game in the line 7...Bg7 8 Be3 0-0 9 Be2 Nxd4, but doesn't even touch the "vanilla" Maroczy with 9...Bd7.

Strange stuff. Will update further when I've watched more clips.
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #15 - 06/27/17 at 13:38:04
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Sounds good. If I recall correctly, this isn't the first time they've had such issues.

EDIT:

Here is the updated table of contents

01: Introduction [07:14]
02: 1...g6 2.e4 c5 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 d6/Nxd4 - Analysis [13:08]
03: 1...c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.e3 Nf6 5.d4 cxd4 6.exd4 d5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qb3 Nxc3 9.Bc4 Nd5/e6 - Analysis [18:55]
04: 1...c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.e3 Nf6 5.d4 cxd4 6.exd4 d5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qb3 e6 9.Bb5 Bg7 - Analysis [15:22]
05: 1...c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 g6 7.0-0 Bg7 8.Qa4 Nb6/e6/0-0 - Analysis [15:57]
06: 1...c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.d4 0-0/Nxc3 - Analysis [16:47]
07: 1...c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nc7 7.a3 e5/f6/g6 - Analysis [17:13]
08: 1...Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.c4 dxc4 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.e4 Bg4 6.Be3 e6 7.Bxc4 Bb4 8.Qc2/Qd3- Analysis [11:59]
09: 1...b6 2.e4 Bb7 3.Nc3 Nf6 and 3...e6 4.d4 Bb4 5.Bd3 Nf6/Ne7/Bxc3+/c5- Analysis [09:10]
10: 1...b5 2.e4 a6 3.d4 Bb7 4.Bd3 e6 and 2...Bb7 3.Bxb5 Bxe4 4.0-0 Nf6 5.d4 e6/c6- Analysis [05:42]
11: 1...f5 2.d3 Nf6/Nc6/d6/g6 - Analysis [16:39]
12: 1...Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.g3 e5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nc3 c6 6.0-0 0-0 7.d3 Nbd7/a5/h6- Analysis [06:53]
13: 1...Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.b4 Bg7 4.Bb2 0-0 5.g3 d6/c6/d5/b6/a5- Analysis [19:10]
14: 1...Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Qb3 Nb6 6.d4 Bg7/Be6- Analysis [16:39]
15: 1...Nf6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 Bb7 4.Bg2 e6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Nc3 c5 7.d4 cxd4 8.Qxd4 0-0/d6- Analysis [17:28]
16: 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.b3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 b6/c6- Analysis [10:38]
17: 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.b3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 c5 7.Bb2 and 7.e3 dxc4/Nc6/b6 - Analysis [27:50]
18: 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.b3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 c5 7.e3 b6 8.Bb2 Bb7 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nc6 11.Qe2 Qc7/a6- Analysis [09:53]
19: 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.b3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 c5 7.cxd5/Bb2- Analysis [12:23]
20: 1...Nf6 2.c4 dxc4 3.Na3 c5 4.Nxc4 Nc6 5.e3 Nf6 and 3...a6 4.Nxc4 b5 5.Ne3 Bb7 6.g3 e6/Bxf3- Analysis [11:11]
21: 1...d5 2.c4 d4 3.b4 f6/Bg4/Nf6/c5- Analysis [13:49]
22: 1...d5 2.c4 e6 3.b3 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bb2 Nf6 7.Be2 Be7/d4/a6/Bd6- Analysis [09:09]
23: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 dxc4 4.Bg2 Bf5 5.Na3 e5 6.Nxc4 e4 7.Nfe5 Qc7/f6/Nd7/Be6/Nf6 and 4...Nf6/Nd7/e6/b5 - Analysis [13:05]
24: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.b3 Bg7 6.Bb2 0-0 7.d3 Bg4 8.Nbd2 Bxf3 9.Nxf3 Nfd7/e6/Qa5+- Analysis [09:03]
25: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 Bg4 4.Ne5 Bf5 and 3...Bf5 4.Bg2 e6 5.cxd5 exd5/cxd5 - Analysis [11:39]
26: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.0-0 Nbd7 6.Na3 Nb6 7.Ne5 Be6 8.Qc2 g6/Qd4/Bd5 - Analysis [07:11]
27: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Bf5 5.0-0 e6 6.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb3 Qc8/Qb6/Qd7/Qc7 - Analysis [06:41]
28: 1...d5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Bg4 5.Ne5 Be6/Bh5/dxc4/Bf5/e6 - Analysis [11:18]

I'm not an expert on the Symmetrical English, but this still doesn't look complete. 1...c5 2 c4 Nc6 3 Nc3 e5, as well as 1...c5 2 c4 Nf6 3 Nc3 Nc6 4 g3 g6 (The main line  Shocked ) are absent...
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #14 - 06/27/17 at 12:58:59
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Talked with a ChessBase rep, Steffen Giehring (steffen.giehring@chessbase.com), and he says that their staff are fixing the issues today. So, probably ready by late afternoon (given Europe's time difference)?
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #13 - 06/26/17 at 14:31:11
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Thanks for pursuing this Nestor. Of course begs the question how this happened.....
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #12 - 06/26/17 at 14:20:25
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I am advised that this is an oversight by ChessBase and that some clips are missing from the DVD. Hopefully they will post an update on their website.
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #11 - 06/25/17 at 17:07:50
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Sorry @nestor and @TopNotch for not paying closer attention. I was too hung up on these 1...d5/2...e6 lines, which strike me as tricky for White whether he wants to play g3 or b3 first (on move 3).

But you probably agree that covering main lines in the Symmetrical English with new ideas as just one part of a mere 5-hour DVD is an almost unbelievable proposition. Bologan doesn't strike me as the type to propose harmless, low-theory sidelines to save time/space either.

If I was going to adopt this repertoire, the Symmetrical English is the first place I'd go looking for additional sources, even if they were covered. Unless I wanted to transpose to main line KIDs, Semi-Slavs or Grünfelds of course!
  

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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #10 - 06/25/17 at 11:59:38
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Yes, Sielecki serie is fantastic, with lots of ideas. I like it.

My main sources in the Symmetrical English are Pritchet and Davies. Both books a little dated, but they are ok for me. I'll check David Cummings work also.

Thx !
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #9 - 06/25/17 at 04:32:09
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@Stigma

Are u not paying attention. Nestor already posted that the Chessbase website quotes Bologan as saying that all replies to 1.Nf3 are covered in this DVD, and in the intro he understood him as saying he covers the English four knights in this DVD via the move order 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4.

I watched the Chessbase sample for myself and Nestor is absolutely right. To not cover 1..c5 or 1..Nf6 followed by 2...c5 in a DVD on the Reti is pretty absurd on the face of it and worse yet when you claim in the introduction to have done it.

To be clear, he makes reference to promising new developments in these Symmetrical English lines, and there is no mention of past DVDs or future ones.

Ramirez was also guilty of the same sin of omission, however the DVD blurb never misled consumers by claiming to cover lines it did not.

Lastly it is possible and more likely as someone already posted, that this is Chessbase's error rather than Bologan's if the quality of his other DVD's and Books are anything to go by.

Time will tell.

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"Give a video series repertoire with 1.Nf3 reasonably deep is almost impossible (maybe a 5 series book would do that, as Khalifman did in his "according to Kramnik"). As an eventual 1.Nf3 player I would like to have a DVD from Bologan (of another well-respected author) giving a repertoire after"

I more or less agree with you, but IM Christof Sielecki did a pretty good job in his English Video series on Chess24.com which spanned 25 clips and 7hrs 54mins of instruction.

For excellent recent coverage of the Symmetrical English from White's point of view I can highly recommend IM David Cummings repertoire book on the English.
  

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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #8 - 06/24/17 at 20:21:22
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Give a video series repertoire with 1.Nf3 reasonably deep is almost impossible (maybe a 5 series book would do that, as Khalifman did in his "according to Kramnik"). As an eventual 1.Nf3 player I would like to have a DVD from Bologan (of another well-respected author) giving a repertoire after:

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3
or
1.Nf3 d5 2.c4
or maybe
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6

in Reti-style.

If you want to get wider... then some holes appear or some major lines are "not covered", referring to other sources or previous works.

It's my opinion.

  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #7 - 06/24/17 at 17:18:34
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Before we get all hyper-critical here, let me point out that despite these potential omissions Bologan's DVD is still around one hour longer than the previous Réti DVD by Alejandro Ramirez.

But then Ramirez used more shortcuts and sidelines, to avoid even some of the limited theory there is in the Reti. And there were some holes there too if I recall correctly. The Bologan DVD is likely pitched at a higher level where more concrete knowledge is required.

It sounds logical (but still regrettable) that Bologan could refer to some earlier DVDs of his for coverage of 1...c5 and Pirc/Modern systems. More service-minded might have been to duplicate those videos here... Anyway, any holes after 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.b3 are in a sense more serious, since that line is clearly a part of the Reti itself.

If anybody has/gets the DVD, could you check if he covers some extra lines in games with text comments only? Marin often does this on his DVDs, though mostly for giving alternative options to the lines already covered on video.
  

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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #6 - 06/24/17 at 16:57:36
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In addition to the aforementioned omissions, surely stuff like 1 Nf3 e6 2 c4 f5 should be covered.
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #5 - 06/24/17 at 16:23:06
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The Chessbase website quotes Bologan as saying that all replies to 1.Nf3 are covered in this DVD, and in the intro I understood him as saying he covers the English four knights in this DVD via the move order 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 (he has previously done a DVD on 1.c4 c5, but that was primarily from Black's perspective).

This is such a glaring omission that I suspect Bologan may have recorded the relevant clips and Chessbase have accidentally left them out of the released product. Anyway I have contacted them about it.

  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #4 - 06/24/17 at 14:16:53
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In the video sample he refers to another DVD for c5....couldn't tell whether it was his old English ones, or another is coming.
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #3 - 06/24/17 at 14:13:35
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Indeed, after 1.Nf3 g6 2.e4 there are many more moves to consider apart from 2...c5. At least all of 2...c6, 2...d5, 2...Nf6 and of course 2...d6 & 2...Bg7 followed by 3...d6 need to be considered.

And after 1.Nf3 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.c4 to my mind the main line is 3...Bg4 and not 3...dxc4.

Given the time devoted to these chapters the coverage can be superficial at best.
  
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Re: New Reti DVD by Bologan
Reply #2 - 06/24/17 at 03:12:02
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After having a closer look at the contents 1...c5 appears to be altogether absent, as well as Pirc/Modern Systems.
  
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