Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.analysis Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: [Q:] Best reply to 1.d4? Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <5dsahf$hjn@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:51:29 GMT In article <5dsahf$hjn@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> johns@cs.man.ac.uk writes: >In article , dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) writes: >> >> So play... the Dutch Defence, 1...f5. Aim at a Stonewall formation >> with ...d5. > >What would you recommend as study material for this? Most of the current >stuff on the Dutch (including Pederson's new book) focusses on the >Leningrad, which I assume you wouldn't recommend to a novice. I don't understand the Leningrad... I don't know how much study material a novice needs on the Stonewall - it depends what standard of novice! I don't know of a dedicated book for Black (there are some for the system played as White) and so one could beg/borrow/buy secondhand the following titles: As an introduction to the defence there are some nice Botvinnik games in his "100 Selected Games", and there is a nice discussion in Euwe and Kramer's "The Middle Game, volume I". More advanced material can be found in Bellin's "The Classical Dutch", and there is also a chapter in one of Dvoretsky's books for Batsford - "Opening Preparation", I guess. I would be interested to know of any others. I composed some notes on the Stonewall once (my first ever set of notes, I think) which are on the web, address below. I don't think they are very good, but they might get someone started OK. -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* Exeter Chess Coaching Page etc.: || \_/| = DrDave on BICS http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV "Contribute!" -- Doug Attig From info!dregis Mon Feb 17 12:07:08 GMT 1997 Article: 5506 of rec.games.chess.analysis