This is a thorough guide to a very complex opening system for experienced players. Organised in the traditional 'complete' style, this is more than just a repertoire for White against this topical system. Experienced players are attracted to the strategic complexity of 1.d4 openings, but do not know how to deal with the dynamic Grunfeld Defence. Here, an International Master suggests that the answer is the Modern Exchange Variation, as favoured by Kramnik, Gelfand, Anand and other top grandmasters on numerous occasions. With in-depth coverage, the book includes 50 main games readers can play through with conclusions at the end of every game and chapter. This is essential reading for both defenders of this opening system, as well as those who want to "Challenge the Grunfeld".
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Edward Dearing is a young International Master from Scotland who has represented his country at numerous junior European and World Championships. He recently graduated in law from Cambridge University.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Rosetta Stone for Grunfeldites,
This review is from: Challenging the Grunfeld (Paperback)
A true Rosetta Stone for unlocking the mysteries of how White maintains (or tries to !) an advantage in the highly theoretical Rb1 lines of the Modern Exchange variation. Well formatted, peppered with pithy comments and (including the chapter titles themselves), and crammed full of concrete analysis to back up assessments made by the author.
In such a volatile line as the Grunfeld, there are sure to be micro improvements and novelties found-a-plenty since its publication, but the underpinnings and foundational knowledge of this very specific line are so well detailed here that this book will be relevent for much longer than most other opening books. In that line, it seems to be in keeping with other efforts from this publisher, (Vigorito's Challenging the Nimzo & Marin's epic tomes on Open games and the Spanish) all of which seem to be aimed at a higher (rating-wise) market than their leading competitors. To be certain, it is more analysis than prose heavy, but the narrative contained is as clear as it is concise, providing ample verbage for the rhetorically hungry strategist. I applaud their efforts, and hope Pinski's next book on the mercurial King's Gambit delivers the goods as well as he did here.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book for those playing 1.d4,
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This review is from: Challenging the Grunfeld (Paperback)
After many years as a 1.e4 player I've started to use 1.d4, so needed to know how to handle the Grunfeld. This book is excellent for that task. It is a repertoire book for white, so does not cover every line, but it covers all reasonable responses by black. I think the reviewer "Siobaras" has missed this point, so I believe his 3 star review is unjust, which is the point the reviewer Jose Ribeiro made.
The book is based around the Modern Exchange Variation 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 c5. White of course has many possible 8th moves (Rb1, Be3, Bb5+, Be2, h3 and Bc4 being most common), but as this is a repertoire book for white, the whole book is based around white playing Rb1 around the 8th move. That is a sound line, is the most common line and scores better than any other for white. After the introduction, there are 9 chapters covering different black responses on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th moves. (You can be pretty sure black will castle kingside immediately after Rb1). The book contains 50 well annotated games played by good modern players - Anand, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Kasparov, Kramnik, Shirov, Svidler, Topalov etc. Some of the games do not follow the reccomeneded repertoire, but the author explains that in his opinion, a good knowledge of the concepts in the other games is necessary. The book is well researched. What I particularly like about the book is that it is very objective. The title is "Challenging the Grunfeld" and not "Smashing the Grunfeld", "How to win against the Grunfeld" or another silly title which implies white is always going to win. Many of the games shown are where black wins. Books with unrealistic titles like: * How to Beat Gary Kasparov * Seven Ways to Smash the Sicilian (Starting Out Series) * How to Beat the French Defence: The essential guide to the Tarrasch * How to Beat 1 D4: A Sound and Ambitious Repertoire Based on the Queen's Gambit Accepted do annoy me. I wish chess authors and publishers would wake up to the fact that for decent openings, there is no magic bullet that will almost guarantee you a win. Edward Dearing, the author of this book, is one of the few that presents a repertoire that is objective and not full of hype. Judging by the title of this book, and another similar one (Challenging the Nimzo-indian), perhaps the publisher "Quality Chessbooks" does appreciate this fact and does not take their readers for idiots. If you intend playing the Grunfeld as black, then it is doubtful if this book will be of much use to you. Books like * Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess) by Jacob Aagaard (GM) * The Grunfeld Defence by Nigel Davies (GM) * Understanding the Grunfeld by Jonathan Rowson (GM) would be far more suitable. But for the white player, this is more useful than any other book I have seen on the Grunfeld.
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