Chess books on d-pawn systems

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Avatar of tonylu75491

Are there any chess books that cover the London, Colle, Stonewall, etc. all in one book? I don't want a book that only covers little material on each.

Avatar of k_kostov

It depends on whether there's a reason for them all to be included. My advice is not to require all of them to be in a single book - look at different sources.

However, if you're searching for a repertoire book, chances are you'll hardly find such one, because most repertoires tend to be systematized for the purposes of efficiency - no need to include various systems for the sake of it because that would make memorization difficult and would mix up different ideas, positions, plans, problems, etc. The other way is to look for a general book on openings and it's likely that you'll find one in which all of them will be included, but will there be enough analysis about each of them?

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Depends, Repertoire for who?  Black?  Sure!

Dealing with d4 Deviations by John Cox (2005)
Grandmaster Repertoire 11 - Beating d4 Deviations by Avrukh (2012)
Beating the Anti-King's Indians by Dembo (2008?, 2009?)

Cox's book is for players that play Classical Defenses to 1.d4 (QGD, QGA, Slav, Nimzo, etc)

Dembo's book is for players that play Fianchetto Defenses (King's Indian, Grunfeld)

Avrukh's book accounts for all and is over 500 pages.

If you are looking for books for White that cover all of them, forget it!  Plus, who wants to play the sorry London System as White anyway.  There's a repertoire book "Starting Out: d-pawn Systems", but that just covers the Barry, Zukertort, and 150 Attack.

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ThrillerFan wrote:

  Plus, who wants to play the sorry London System as White anyway.

Surprisingly, a lot of people! I seem to get it in online blitz quite often (sometimes in longer games too), probably in at least 10% of my games against 1.d4. I still have trouble understanding why people bother, as White gets absolutely nothing if Black knows what he is doing... Must be lazy people who don't want to bother learning theory!