Article: 3738 of rec.games.chess.analysis Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: The Dutch and the Leningrad Dutch Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <3255CB5C.B76@tiac.net> <53dbp8$qbb@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:27:49 GMT In article <53dbp8$qbb@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> johns@cs.man.ac.uk writes: >Gufeld's "An opening repertoire for the attacking player" covers it in >as much detail as most of us really need, but has too few illustrative >games. I have mixed feelings about the latter book, because it says on >the back cover that it includes an introduction to opening principles, >and this is just untrue. In fact the introduction says things like >"As white we recommend 1. e4!, the formidable weapon of Bobby Fischer...". > >I believe some people here have strong feelings about honesty in advertising > chess books. It's a Cadogen book BTW :-) > > John "Don't judge a book by..." ;-) I've just read the Gufeld title and while I had no problem with it as a book I wondered who it was aimed at. It suggested that the Sicilian Defence is met 90% of the time by 2. Nf3 - which at Gufeld's level it might be, but down in the shallow end... The opening systems chosen seemed really heavyweight, and the analysis was pretty dense (lots of moves, few comments), all of which suggested that it was aimed at a strong player with a great memory and appetite for work but with not enough opening books. The more usual book buyer is probably someone like me, not very strong, can hardly remember their own name, but with too many opening books. -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html || \_/| = DrDave on BICS ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU: ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV From info!dregis Wed Oct 9 17:09:32 BST 1996