Solid against d4

It is not. A brilliant example are the recent DVD's of Svidler on the Grunfeld, and P.H. Nielsen's on the Dragon. Great, top notch GM analysis, useful even to very advanced players, and yet accessible to anyone. Not everyone can produce such stuff- and Dzindzi surely can't.

I haven't seen his lectures, I've only read the book.  If it's a live lecture on an opening in general, it might be permissible to miss some very minor lines here and there, as viewers' attention spans are limited, though the speaker should avoid doing that.  It is not, however, good to miss key lines and ideas in an opening book, which is what Dzindzi and Alburt do in their book.  Additionally, a slight bias might be okay, but an overwhelming one is not fine if it completely skews the reader's perspective to a point where it's obvious that they're wrong.

Dzindzi created the Dzindzi indian as opening theory and for that I thank him. I also like his recommendation against the Hubner (Qxd5)

To be fair I actually don't think Dzindzi's Chess Openings for Black explained book is all that bad. It's true there are some important things missing and not all his recommended lines will equalise vs correct play, but I didn't see much in there that would be refuted by your average 1800ish opponent. And there were a few decent nuggets of useful information.

By contrast the companion book for White is very poor and should be avoided at all costs. It has few, if any, redeeming features.

Most of his videos should be watched for humour content only.

His nimzo indian videos were great..

1 d4 getting on your wick its understandable those poncy white piece players looking for a solid positional games lol how about a spanner in the works

1 d5 c5 the old benoni normally messes up white worth a look fun line lots of interesting moves

Thank you for all the comments. 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 white has reached his exchange Variation

So we have some negative-to-tepid comments regarding Lev Alburt's Chess Openings for Black, Explained (at least the first edition, which I heard resembled revised edition).

(1) What is a good replacement(s) for playing as Black? pfren mentioned a couple possibilities. I kind of liked the idea (although not married to it) of the whole Nimzo and Bogo (QID would work too) response to 1.d4, although I don't know what the holes in the analysis are in the book. I respond to 1.e4 with 1...e5 (may add in the Caro or French at some point in the future).

(2) Poor comments for Chess Openings for White, Explained. What is a good replacement for this?

London System 

A game between my opponent and me. I lost the game because I blundered. But the first moves show, that white can always play the exchange variation. What should I do?

Playing with a plan sounds like the right thing to do- in that game you had no plan. After 6.Qc2 Black's most reasonable plan is denying the white pieces the occupation of the b1-h7 diagonal.

Here are some games for further study:

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5?! Is an inaccuracy which gives black equality. After 3...exd5 4. Nc3, black should play 4...c6!, not 4...Nf6, and he will be able to develop his bishop actively, either by Bf5, or, in case of an early Qc2, by way of g6 and Bf5. The point is that ...c6 defends d5 so that Qb3 by white would not be attacking both d5 and b7. Normally, an early Bf5 in the QGDE would run into Qb3 if black hadn't played c6, as in 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Bf5? 6. Bxf6 and white will next play Qb3 forking two pawns. This is avoidable in the line after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 because you van immediately play ...c6 and develop the bishop. Qb3 can be answered by Qc7 or Qc8 and black is totally fine.

So 3. cxd5 is nothing to fear. And if white plays 3. Nc3, 3...Be7 is fine for black.

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Get a coach.. They will tell you which openings to play.

just once more lets here it for the old benoni

1 d4 c5

white player gets annoyed straight away give it a go folks

nothing ventured nothing gained

@BofW : very original turn of events. But yes, in the final position : Rf-d7/K to f6/N to c4/b7-b6, why not ? d6 is weak

you can lead a horse to water but it seems the proverb is true about getting it to drink lol

He wants you to play the old benoni

sometimes you can be obvious that didnt get any acknowledgement and a proverb scoobied you too maybe the old benoni is a bit too bizarre for you lol

I guess he means the 'triangle system' : d5/e6/c6, and then move the knights