What I can see in the pdf sample looks pretty good, especially since the target audience is the club player. I get the impression Kalinichenko is a database guy, and the reason I associate him with low-quality books is sometimes the data is all there is. Here the title page says "in collaboration with Nikolai Kalinichenko", so if Kalinichenko did the data part and Kalinin did the verbal part then it might work out. Unlike, say, when Kalinichenko did the data part and Gufeld did the verbal part.
Quote:The Giuoco Pianissimo has already been examined in an excellent book by K. Müller and G. Souleidis, Winning with the Slow Italian (2016), aimed at the club player. However, in our opinion, the book contains too much concrete information in the form of variations and subvariations, which somewhat erodes the whole idea of the opening in question.
Therefore, in this book we will first reveal the main strategic ideas and typical plans of the modern Giuoco Pianissimo, and only then will the reader be offered a review of the modern theory of the Italian Game, centered around practical examples from grandmaster games.
@BobbyDigital80 - They cover ...d5 in both the ideas section (page 103) and the theory section (page 218), so I would hope somewhere in there is the information you want. White doesn't have to castle on the fourth move to discourage ...d5. Anyway, if 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6 5.d3 O-O do you play 6.Re1 here? It seems a little early.
Esipenko - Giri saw ...d5 in Round 8 at Tata Steel. It's definitely interesting.
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