MW wrote on 05/07/20 at 20:01:27:

I think most people just get the premium membership to watch these videos anyway. That has to make sense pricewise unless you're only interested in one or two series.

If you're unsure you want to be a member for a long time, you can get a membership that's renewed monthly and end it when you've had your fill of videos and ebooks.

I've never really considered buying these chess24 video series individually, though I see the prices seem to vary quite a lot. I did pick up a bundle of around 60 of them on sale from iChess a few years ago.

By the look of it the video is just over 1 hour 20 minutes long and they are asking USD29.99 for it .....or have I got that wrong?

kylemeister wrote on 05/07/20 at 18:03:10:

It's already available, but only in Spanish I think.

kylemeister wrote on 04/26/20 at 22:49:00:


Don't suppose that you have seen anything since that suggests a release for this video?

Lanark wrote on 04/29/20 at 08:56:05:


Actually now that I think about it was really Tony's Dangerous Weapons chapter that triggered my memory of this line, I sorta dismissed it as a false memory because I confused Tony's earlier book The Dynamic English which does not feature that e4 line with the Dangerous Weapons one that does.

On a real side note, 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e4 (which was one of Nimzovich's favorite lines according to Reuben Fine) has been played in Hell.  A game between GMs Johan-Sebastian Christiansen and Sebastian Bogner at an open event in that Norwegian town last year saw 4...d6 5. d4 Bg4 (one of the old book possibilities).

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 04/29/20 at 03:48:29:

I had actually wondered if Burgess might choose that.  Maybe I became aware of it from Chess Publishing, where it appeared in Dec. 2018.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 04/29/20 at 03:48:29:

Well, there is 5...Nc6, which doesn't allow Nxe5 and could transpose to some old book stuff I knew of in the line chosen by Cuenca (2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4).  I half-remembered a game Gulko-Karpov, and I notice that GMTonyK has been on both sides.

kylemeister wrote on 04/29/20 at 00:52:13:

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bb4 4.e4 looks ridiculous - but it's not! In fact my first thought was you misquoted Burgess. Showing my age, I guess. 4...Bxc3 5.dxc3 is a tempo up on what black wants in a Rossolimo Sicilian, except... 5...Nxe4!? 6.Qg4 Nf6 7.Qxg7 Rg8 8.Qh6 d6 9.Bg2 Nc6 10.Nf3 Rg6 11.Qe3 Be6 12.b3 it was still roughly equal up to here 12...Qd7? 13.Nh4 and the engine says black was lucky in Berkes - Timman, Gyorgy Marx Memorial 2010.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1587813

4...Bc5!? caught my eye. I'm not sure if it's a novelty, but it's not in the ChessBase database. However it transposes to a bunch of games, arising from ...e7-e6-e5 rather than ...Bf8-b4-c5. Whites have even played 5.Nf3 and 5.Nge2 in that position. Unfortunately, 5.Bg2 or 5.d3 or even 5.h3!? must be good.

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