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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not so bad.
This book is indeed not complete and God help you if it's your one and only source of information on Bg5 lines (I can imagine some poor guy's face when his opponent plays 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qa4+!? and he has to solve all black's problems over the board)--but if you are a Grunfeld fan looking for little-used, original ideas, you can find lots of...
Published on November 16, 2000
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An incomplete treatment of the Grunfeld
I expected so much more of this book, specially because it was written by Shamkovich. But the fact is that it is only an incomplete summary, with the additional weakness that it does not provide deep strategic evaluations. Besides, the Bg5 line received a disappointing 2 pages coverage.
Published on August 7, 1999 by Reviewer
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An incomplete treatment of the Grunfeld,
This review is from: The Gruenfeld Defense (Paperback)
I expected so much more of this book, specially because it was written by Shamkovich. But the fact is that it is only an incomplete summary, with the additional weakness that it does not provide deep strategic evaluations. Besides, the Bg5 line received a disappointing 2 pages coverage.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not so bad.,
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This review is from: The Gruenfeld Defense (Paperback)
This book is indeed not complete and God help you if it's your one and only source of information on Bg5 lines (I can imagine some poor guy's face when his opponent plays 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.cxd5 Nxg5 7.Nxg5 e6 8.Qa4+!? and he has to solve all black's problems over the board)--but if you are a Grunfeld fan looking for little-used, original ideas, you can find lots of them here that I've never even seen MENTIONED anywhere else. Just one example: 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bb5+ Nc6!?
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The Gruenfeld Defense by Leonid Shamkovich (Paperback - Nov. 1997)
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