The cover is vey nice !

I thought with Pert + Cornette combo, we have covered in this Ragozin-Vienna complex, but who knows... maybe this is more an introductory-type of book.

If only there were an Everyman editor who browsed these forums on occasion...   

Stigma wrote on 03/19/18 at 19:15:43:
After 5.e4 Bb4 I don't see a good move other than 6.Bg5, which is definitely a Vienna Variation. And I think 5.e3 is a not very accurate QGA from white's point of view. So you will have to explain what critical lines you have in mind.

I agree with you that I have not seen "complete" coverage of 4...dxc4 anywhere.

Lalic (2000) Queen's Gambit Declined: Bg5 Systems in his chapter 7 on the Vienna Variation has the following:

• Game 53 4...Bb4 5.Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4
• Game 54 4...dxc4 5.Bg5 Bb4 6. Qa4+ (and extremely brief coverage of 6.a3 and 6.e3 in a note)
• Games 55-67 4...dxc4 5.e4 Bb4 6.Bg5

Other than that, in the Introduction he has a game Eslon-Tal, Seville 1992, with 4...dxc4 5.Qa4+. In this game white did not play Bc1-g5 at all. It's not unique in that respect. Despite the title, Lalic has a whole chapter on Bc1-f4.

4 Symbols
5 Introduction
Part 1: Exchange Variations
16 1 The Alatortsev Variation: 3...Le7 4 cxd5 exd5 5 Lf4
27 2 The Exchange Variation: White develops his Knight on e2
35 3 The Exchange Variation: White plays Sf3
Part 2: White plays an early Sf3
52 4 An Anti-Lf4 line
57 5 The Ragozin Defence
82 6 The Manhattan Variation
101 7 The Vienna Variation
Part 3: 4 Lg5: Deviations for both sides
123 8 The Dutch/Peruvian Gambit
129 9 The Cambridge Springs
149 10 White plays e3 and Tc1 without Sf3
155 11 White plays Sf3 and Tc1 without e3
Part 4: Main lines
162 12 Anti-Tartakower: Lxf6
169 13 The Lasker Defence
177 14 The Tartakower Variation: Rare lines
185 15 The Tartakower Variation: Main line
198 16 The Extended Fianchetto
202 17 The Rubinstein Variation
207 Index of variations

Table of contents lifted from here: http://www.schachversand.de/d/detail/buecher/5271.html

IsaVulpes wrote on 03/19/18 at 19:06:05:

I agree. White can avoid the entire book and still play critical lines, by meeting 4...dxc4 with 5.e4 or 5.e3 and 4...Bb4 with 5.cxd5.

Though many players now reach the Vienna mostly from the Ragozin (4...Bb4) move order, so perhaps the thinking is there's already enough recent coverage of the rest of the Ragozin for the Black player to consult. But then it would indeed be nice to get complete coverage of the entire Vienna, i.e. everything after 4...dxc4. AFAIK no such book has ever been published.

Btw. did Pert and/or Cornette cover this transposition to the Vienna in their respective Ragozin books?

Interesting, I'm not sure there has been much around book wise specifically for the QGD Vienna before, so I think there is a gap in the market (Cyrus Lakdawala missed a shot here  )

Everyman has announced a new book for Summer 2018:

Queen´s Gambit Declined : Vienna   by Panczyk/Ilczuk

~400 pages , 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Nf3 Bb4 5 Bg5 dc4

Nice cover: https://www.everymanchess.com/queens-gambit-declined-vienna

In the past I really liked most books of Panczyk/Ilczuk:
always good pieces of serious work and very useful.
Looking forward this, too.

tracke