I buy also today this book in electronic format, I wanted it in pdf format .
It begins with the queen's  Indian defence.
If somebody is interested  everyman has a promotion, they give also Opening Repertoire: ...c6 for free with this book 
The Offer ends 2nd October

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At the risk of sliding a bit off-topic, I think the Fianchetto anti-KID line I like most apart from 6 b3 (and possibly 6 a4) is 6 Re1. Then if ...d5 + c2-c4/...c7-c6 happens, White's QN can develop more actively on c3, impeding ...a5/...a4 which I believe is one way for Black to 'do something' (iso sitting there to be strategically rolled up) if the QN is on d2.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 05/26/23 at 16:24:17:

2.g3 is proposed by Burgess in his book A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White, but I don't like 2...e5 3.dxe5 dxe5 4.Qxd8+ Kxd8.

Michael Ayton wrote on 05/26/23 at 10:11:43:

That line always puts me in mind of Ivkov-Fischer, Second Piatigorsky Cup 1966, and Ivkov's amusing notes in the tournament book (at least some of which can be seen at the link).

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044608

I have to dig deeper into the book, but the newest game is from 2021. I haven't seen any TN's (yet). "I'm recommening 1 d4 followed by variations which feature a kingside fianchetto and in some slightly less common move orders than the main lines, thereby avoiding forcing lines and positions with which our opponemts may be pretty familiar." "An understanding of plans is far more important than memorisation of move orders." I will give away that in the Catalan mainline Pavlovic chooses the positional 10.Bg5 instead of the more complex 10.Bd2.

The last chapter, Chapter Nine, deals with the Modern and rare lines. I just started to play a correspondence game that featured the Wade Defence with 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4, but unfortunately there is no mention of it. The chapter has 14 games. It features 1.d4 g6 2.g3, 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.dxc5!?, 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c4 Bg4 4.Nbd2!?, 2...Bf5 3.c4, 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3, 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.g3 and 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 c5 3.g3.

Chapter Seven, The KID, has 8 KID games. Pavlovic plays the Fianchetto Variation with 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.0-0 d6 6.Nbd2 (3 times), but also with 6.Nc3 (5 times), where Sielecki plays 6.b3. There is 1 game with the symmetrical Grunfeld (5...d5 without (6.)c4, which Sielecki plays) with 6.Bf4!? There is also 1 game with 5...c5 where both Pavlovic and Sielecki play 6.dxc5. Finally there is 1 game with 3...b6 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.c4 Bg7 6.0-0 0-0 7.Nc3, which is also played by Sielecki.

In the Slav lines does he also mention 3 ...c6 with an early 4...e6? Not sure why anyone wants to lock in the white squared bishop when they have the opportunity of playing 4...Bf5/Bg4 but they seem to....(perhaps triangle system players have great faith in their system!)

Looking forward to your comments on how he handles the Indian systems (i.e. mainlines or other).

Thanks TD.

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ARF (x2)!

Chapter Five, about 3...c5 and the Tarrasch, has 7 games.

Chapter Three The Romanishin Variation has 11 games. After 3...b5 4.Bg2 Bb7 Pavlovic plays 5.Bg5, where Sielecki plays 5.0-0, which will probably transpose.

Chapter 1 about the QID has 13 games. In the mainline with 7...Ne4, Pavlovic plays 8.Nxe4, where Sielecki plays 8.Qc2. In the mainline with 7...d5 8.cxd5 exd5 Pavlovic plays 9.Bf4, as do Hilton & Ippolito and Avrukh. Sielecki plays 9.Ne5.

I received the book today. The Romanishin Variation is indeed 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b5, but also 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 b5. The book has many games of Ulf Andersson (a hero of mine) and also games from other players I know from playing this kind of repertoire, like Georg Meier and Oleg Romanishin (with White!  ). And also my hero from Wojo's Weapons, the late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, is featured in a main game. There are 79 games in total. Throughout the book the move order may have been altered to fit Pavlovic's move order, which can make it difficult to find the game in question. I am now going to compare this repertoire with Sielecki's, among others. I will give you my findings when I am done.

Perhaps the problem might be that just because a chess writer is seen as making some claim to chess expertise, a chess book publisher might not know chess from checkers. 

Whoever has the book first informs the rest of us, okay? 
As a big fan of Sielecki's proposed repertoire, I am going to buy this book anyway. 

nestor and TD - Thanks for your informative comments.  They definitely pointed me in the right direction.  Sielecki does indeed cover 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b5 in his Keep It Simple 1.d4, but he refers to it as the "Extended Fianchetto".  His analysis of 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b5 4.Bg2 d5 is in a different chapter with the descriptive title "Black stops c2-c4".  

While Romanishin often played the sequence given by TD (1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 a6 4.Bg2 b5), a case could also be made to name 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b5 4.Bg2 d5 after him because he reached the position after the 4th move in his game with Raymond Keene in the 1973 IBM-B Amsterdam tournament.  (In this case, the position came via the transposition 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5 3.Bg2 d5 4.d4 e6).  It seems plausible that Pavlovic chose to name the variation after Romanishin because of the game with Keene or due to the common feature of an early ...b5 as in the Romanishin System described by TD.

This approach with an early ...b5 seems pretty respectable since it's recommended in two Quality Chess opening books: Avurkh's Grandmaster Repertoire 11 - Beating 1.d4 Sidelines and Ntirlis' Playing 1.d4 d5: A Classical Repertoire, although neither author refers to Romanishin. 

It's certainly not the Nimzo after 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3. I was also thinking of 3...b5, which looks like 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 a6 4.Bg2 b5, the Romanishin System (for Black!).

Kerangali wrote on 04/30/23 at 17:22:46:

When I saw announcement for this new book on the Everyman site the other day, I wondered if Pavlovic had attained Lakdawala-like levels of prolificacy because his two volumes on the Nimzo-Indian had just been released by Thinkers Publishing earlier this month. 

Based on the limited information in the pdf excerpt, it appears that the proposed repertoire resembles the one advocated by Sielecki in his Keep It Simple 1.d4 from 2019, with 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3.  Sielecki castled before playing c2-c4, which meant he avoided the Nimzo-Indian entirely.  I'm curious what move order Pavlovic uses to enter the Romanishin Variation of the Nimzo.

I found a new book for everyman about 1.d4 and strategic play and I am thinging to buy it.
I saw that it has  "The Romanishin Variation", it is against Grunfeld defence?
I do not see any "Grunfeld defence" chapter.
What is your opinion about this book from the pdf that is at the publisher site
The pdf https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0080/9284/4094/files/OR_Strategic_Play_with_1_...
The book https://everymanchess.com/products/opening-repertoire-strategic-play-with-1d4-1