I have come to the conclussion that this book is mainly for the players over 2000 not for lower rated players. You must be able to follow the variation in your head.
Otherwise you must have a board at least two boards with the game set up so that you can see the moves and then revert back to the original board.
My friend, I believe that the two books of Boris Avrukh on d4 is an excellent repertoire for white! It not only covers the plans and ideas behind 1.d4 but it also provides a variation to play against almost any white's reply! This book is of cource a masterpiece and an amazing work!
The only "drawback" is that Boris reccomends specific openings/variations! For example, he reccomends the Catalan against 1...d5 so you have to like the catalan in order to find the book useful!
All in all, you need nothing more than this book, to play 1.d4 in a let's say 1600-1800 level!!!
That's from me, I hope myy comment was useful!!!
Here is the 1st part: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/1/36/grandmaster_repertoire_1_-_1d4_volume_one_by_boris_avrukh/
John
I tried to download but my computer keep warning me that it will corrupt my Laptop.
I'll try again and will download it on a computer that I don't care if it corrupts it.
Bye for now.
I purchased two books by Lars Schandorff. One is on the queens gambit declined, and the other is about the indian defenses. Together they sort of complete most of what you will see going against any defense for the white pieces. Of course the only drawback to these books is they don't tell you what to do if you are black. I'll probably check out your book as it talks about the black side a little bit.
I'm slowly learning d4. I am an e4 player myself, as I noticed there are more tactical opportunities in the e4 opening lines than in the d4. D4 is all about gaining a positional advantage. You play d4 mainly to avoid the sicilian but then again there are people who like to play against the sicilian! I play d4 right know just to learn it, but I think e4 can be a very good opening if you know how to play against the sicilian well.
Thanks for sharing I will probably get that book!
I'll probably check out your book as it talks about the black side a little bit. Thanks!
Actully half of the book covers what to do when playing WHITE. The BLACK side is on one side the other side of the book.
YES! Your right...
I have the book now, but I'm confused. It seems the author is restricting black to certain openings. I take it he doesn't want you to use the benko gambit or the benoni if you are black??? HMMMMMMMMM.... I guess those where bad openings anyway, but I do have a good book on the Benko gambit, I just havn't mustered the courage to use it :D. It seems that that might be a project for later because it requires a lot of study to play the Benko Gambit well. Right now I'll just look at one black opening covered in this book and forget everything else.
It's a repertoire book, not an opening encyclopedia. It's only going to cover openings/variations that match.
Thanks for the comments. I see you guys are about 1650 and 1750 so we are about the same rating. For me I am hoping I will some day I will be able to use the information.
The author does say that the opennings covered and the variations he suggest were used by other master and they are listed in the author index.
He also show his results using the repertoire suggested in the book. He updated the new book since he felt the old one is out of fashion.
I think I need an opening encylopedia for a reference, but I think my chess software has it!
"Players below 2000 will see 500 pages of analysis and throw their hands up. ... My guess is that this book best serves players in the USCF 2000-2500 range who are ambitious about their chess but also have to acknowledge that they don't have as much time for study as they might like." - John Donaldson (2004), commenting about the earlier Kaufman repertoire book
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627012924/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen119.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626210017/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen132.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626221508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen162.pdf
I think I'm just going to stick with e4 for now and when someone play's d4 queens gambit I will just play the semi-slav. I have been using coorespondance to practice the queens gambit and I really don't like the opening in paticular. A lot of times, if I don't mess up the opening, I just end up with a roughly equal position, with both sides having useless bishops and knights that need to be centralized but it is not always possible.
The queens gambit is a tough opening to master. I'm going to be in my first actual tournament on the 12 of december and I will not play d4 in that tournament you can guarantee it!
The only real time your light squared bishop becomes useful on the square it usually ends up on at one point or another, d3, or somewhere on that diagonal... is a gift greek sacrifice. Most people know about that though... Other times it might be useful is if it remains on c4 and the queen is on the b1-h2 diagonal and you can manage to take the pawn in front of the king. Of course the other pawn cannot take because of the discovery. Those are nice tricks, but a good player will not fall for those types of tricks. There are other possibilities that exist with the bishop being on c4 or still on that diagonal but they can easily be neutralized by a diagonal blockade with the pawn structure or by simplying removing the threats by trading off that bishop. I know enough about d4 to be dangerous to noobs but I think I could still mess it up to a noob... that's how good I am with the queens gambit, and I think the Trompowski and Mason Attacks are gay so I will never play them :D. Before the tournament I will however review a few games on the trompowski just in case I have to play against it, but I won't waste time going over the Mason attack as I think it's pretty straight forward to defend against it. I don't think the people I will be playing against will be that good as I am still unrated so I don't think I will have much to worry about if my opponent choses to play the Mason attack as white. The only other one I think I should study is the verisov, which can be a pretty good weapon against someone who doesn't know about that opening, and thank goodness I have my trusty d4 sideline book!
All in all I think by the time of the tournmanet comes around I will be well aquainted with what I believe will be the main responses to the d4 type openings as black, and also the e4 type openings. The only other opening I am not familiar with fighting against is the English but I know the basic opening moves, and it's basically a reversed sicilian with an extra tempi. Just knowing the basic opening struggle will have to be sufficiant for that opening as I am not really interested in learning the English opening as I would never play it.
All in all I have a lot of work to do before the tournament, probably over preparing a little bit but my goal is to get first in that tournament. I have been told I play much stronger than an average 1200 rated player.
Yeah I bought the Kaufman book because I didn't really have a good answer at the time to d4 as black. Before I used to play strange indian defenses. that ended up with me losing most of the time... Now I just play Semi-slav if my opponent plays the queens gambit, which they usually do. I didn't really read any book on that opening but I believe I play it well regardless. I think... I don't recall how well I do with it as I havn't really analysed my past online chess games as I only come accross people who play d4 openings except for in correspondance chess, and I've played a lot of those I don't recall all the games I played there. I remember while I was learning d4 I made huge mistakes and when I started playing d5 as a response to d4 as black I made a lot of mistakes as well but I learned.
I did not know the Kaufman book was that bad... :O Anyone want to buy it ? :D
Do you actually know? Or do you play Against it by the hair of your chini chin chin? . . . . . Like I do? , , , , ,
Playing against D4 has been a puzzle to me since I began playing 63 years ago and playing it I seldom did. Although just this year I have made it a demand of myself to play D4 whenever I play white even if I lose.
I could nothave written a review of this book that I purchased in 2013. I kept trying to force myself to read and play it. But it is not amature friendly. It is a hard book to play and remember all the variations.
"The Chess advantage in Black and White" Printed in 2003 By Grandmaster Kaufmann.
I didn't want to pay $30.00 so I kept waiting. One day I decided I would get it anyway.
By luck I found it for $10.00 but by then it was an old version.
So I got a new used version of the NEW 2012 hard copy on Amazom
I like a hand held book better that e copies. It came immaculate just like new. What a bargain.
The Black part is on one side and you flip the book and the white side is there.
The only problem I dislike that it is not for amatures. It's mostly directed to players over 2000+. It is focused on the D4 opennings but it covers some E4 opennings on the black side.
So the front part WHITE is tries to show the play that gives you the advantage as white using the D4 openning. Then on the BLACK side it gives the best suggested play as a defender playing against the D4 openning.
I thought it would be a great book but I have not even gone through one game of the White instruction. It says it is user friendly but I must not be that user friendly.
The description uses several styles of annotation.
It puts a little photo of the piece and its location and where it is to be moved.
b2-b4 Ng8-f6 photo of the piece with location for the
N . . . .. If it's a Queen etc.
Normal it's 1. b4 Nf6 and that is easy.
I just dislike all the little photos with the location where it is at before the actual move. What a pain the whole book is.
Kaufman a grandmaster uses computers and his experience for variations. He also covers E4 suggestion variations in current use.
I would look at the book first for FREE before buying.
LINK . .
http://www.amazon.com/Kaufman-Repertoire-Black-White-User-friendly/dp/9056913719#reader_9056913719
I keep buying books because I like to read hand held copies. I have two kindles but I never read books like that. So in a few years I probably will give my books away again.
Tell me about openning books might you have read and played.