IsaVulpes wrote on 08/02/18 at 13:42:02:


3.Nd2 and 3.Nc3. I dread both to some extent.

Keano wrote on 08/02/18 at 13:36:56:

What will you dread, though?

I think the Prins works on every level, the endgame (Ch 1) might be hard to win, but it seems you can push really hard because it is very hard to lose. Stigma is right about the d4 line.

alyechin wrote on 07/22/18 at 09:33:08:

Variety is the spice of life. I browsed this book a bit just a few days ago. My first impression is I would be OK with facing the lines with ...e5 and ...a5 - the positions are interesting even if they're ultimately equal. That goes for both the move order mentioned by MNb and the one given in Experts on the Anti-Sicilians - that chapter has generously been made available for free by QC here: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/ExpertsontheAnti-Sicilian-Beating5.f3with5....

There is however a recently popular line where Kasparov's coverage comes up short: 5.f3 e5 6.Nb3 d5 7.Bg5 d4. He may be excused since this was a rare sideline back in 2013. After the further 8.c3 Nc6 9.Bb5 he only mentions 9...Be6, but that's not Black's best move. I would put in some analysis effort here.

alyechin wrote on 07/22/18 at 09:33:08:

I played the Vienna/Bishop's Game a bit years ago. Haven't picked up this book yet, but there is a ChessPub thread on it, where "pubbers" had some issues with it: http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1407440347

I probably won't be playing the Scotch 4 Knights anytime soon, but 1.e4 e5 is a part of Sielecki's repertoire where it's fairly easy to substitute something more interesting. 

Delchev's book Bc4 against the Open Games is on a special offer from Forward Chess, probably until the end of July. it covers both 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 and 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 move orders. (I don't see the Hungarian Defence covered directly - Delchev seems to think Black's alternative to 4...Nf6 after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.d3 are not worth preparing for, so he only covers 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Be7).

Other more or less simple options are the Ruy Lopez with an early d3 or the Ruy with the Yates variation in place of the Closed main lines. Even the Scotch can be played with mostly low-theory sidelines - I believe Vallejo Pons presented just such a Scotch repertoire in a Chess24 video.

I really like Sielecki's book on the Nimzo/Bogo, and I don't much like the Bogo. As to the Chessable part, I have a couple of books there but am sort of ambivalent about the learning by rote idea.

I might be missing something, but how can discuss the repertoire if the book says publishes on December and there is no excerpt yet ?

@ Stigma

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Could you, without giving an unethical amount away, say more?