1.g3 book?????

How old is he?

He's 68 years old. There can't be many opening specialists who've made more courses than Andrew Martin. He was making those Foxy Opening courses in the old days of VHS video recorders, and he's covered practically every main chess opening on the Fritz Trainer courses. He must be rich by now! 😂

ROFLMAO!

He's churned out not only a ton of videos already mentioned (Foxy, Chessbase, etc), but also a couple dozen books, mostly offbeat stuff like the Scandi, Budapest, etc, though he has a few main stream openings. The only real lemon of his is Kings Indian Battle Plans. Poorly organized!

A chess player not knowing Andrew Martin is like a baseball player not knowing who Babe Ruth is. Not by any stretch the best player in history, not even during his era, but such a well known old relic that all chess players know who he is/was.

It's like Anna Kournikova in tennis or Bon Jovi in music or Julia Childs in cooking.

Google Bobby Fischer and The Kings Indian Attack.

write notes, you will have your own book.

I have his book 'The Hippopotamus Rises' so that certainly proves your point about books on offbeat openings! 😂

I don’t think of 1. g3 as a distinct opening. I used to play it back in the early 1980s. I would wait for Black to commit to some central pawn structure and then transpose into any of a dozen or so different options—often a Black opening with colors reversed.

Because of there being so many transpositional possibilities, I don’t recommend this to lower-rated players.