tracke wrote on 02/27/22 at 20:44:30:
I like it too. In fact, I already love it!
One quarter is active. Second quarter is adventurous. Next quarter is risky. And the rest is … fun!
Good organisation of material, good management of sources and quotes, very readable! [And in several hours of glancing (it came yesterday) I have not stumbled over any typo yet!]
Even very serious & solid 1…e5 players should read some chapters (Centre Game, Ponziani, Three Knights, Two Knights without 4.Ng5) as an update to Bologan, Ntirlis, Lokander, Johnsen or Krykun. Everything else is an option in different shades of calculated risks.
Bravo and gratulations, Jonanthan!
tracke
many thanks for your kind words; very happy you like the book
re typos/errors, I've found four so far: two incorrect diagrams, an erroneous reference, and a misquote. It seems no matter how careful you are, errors always slip through...
P207: in the first diagram, the h-pawn should be on h3
P251: in the first diagram, there should be a pawn on f3
my fault: I must have tweaked the diagrams and then failed to proof them properly
P285: line "D2" should be "E2"
P307: final word of the first Swiercz quote should be "piece" not "pawn" (I guess I had the word "pawn" stuck in my head)
these are corrected in the CB version