Understanding the Sicilian - Criticism

Understanding the Sicilian - Criticism

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Someone attacked my book Understanding The Sicilian in an Amazon review. https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Sicilian-Mikhail-Golubev/dp/1911465104/
Well, I'm still alive, ready to discuss this.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
ByTrader19 on October 15, 2017
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Seasoned chess player here...long time player and National Master. There is nothing new in this book that hasn't been seen or written by this author before, it is just a dump of his other articles. He is not a top GM, and spends really too much time on the Dragon, which is not a mainstream Sicilian line, nor is the Sozin, another line he prefers. I wish he had gone into more depth, at least presented the leading games of his openings, the title of this book should be " a bunch of my games and old analysis on the Sicilian"
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MikhailGolubevOdessa 7 hours ago
Re <<There is nothing new in this book that hasn't been seen or written by this author before>>
with all due respect, but what you wrote is untrue to put it mildly: each and every game, which had been annotated before, is annotated anew - with, naturally, countless hundreds of new suggestions and conclusions in this book;
moreover, in the introduction I mentioned specifically the method how the effect of developing the most fresh look at the old games/positions had been achieved;
working on this book was a two years long project for mе +35 more years of dealing with a topic (25 years professionally).
but indeed every unhappy reader (you actually can be the first who is unhappy that much!) has a right to write such dirty superficial comments as you did, thank you anyway for investing your time