Grandmaster Repertoire books
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vlada44
May 10, 2020
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Hi everyone, I have been playing chess for almost two years now and I decided to start working on my openings a bit more serious and to change my 1.e5 with something that I like more (I discovered it is c4 while studying master games). So I just got in my possession couple of books from the Grandmaster series ( The English all 3 volumes and Grünfeld both volumes) and I loved them very much for now. So I wanted to see opinion of other people, about the books from that series, do you like them or not and why?
May 10, 2020
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#2
Depends on the book. Some are better than others.
Only problem with the Marin series is he goes out of his way to avoid a d4 transposition, when in reality, there are cases where White gets nothing if the transposition is avoided and d3 is played instead. Most alarming is the Kings Indian.
May 12, 2020
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#3
I heard about that on some forums. I am still on volume 1 (c4 e5) and those lines are in the second volume so I will check them later.
I don’t have Marin’s book in particular (I don’t play the English) but I have quite a few Grandmaster Repertoire books. I have 3 of Negi’s 1.e4 books and they’re all great, Jones’ two volumes on the Dragon (super good and give a full Dragon repertoire) and a few others.
May 13, 2020
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I have the one on the caro-kann by Lars Schandorff and it's completely excellent. Definetly more than I'll need for years to come.
Feb 23, 2022
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When I had gm rep books and other quality chess books it was 2012, Lars schandorff's 1.d4 part 1 & 2 was the only one I enjoyed super much and it wasn't a gm rep book. Those 2 were incredibly game changing for an amateur but I wasn't able to benefit from the other books.
Books of theirs I was memorably disappointed with (maybe due to skill + presentation) were GM Rep Tarrasch defence (2011), Challenging the grunfeld (2005) and Challenging the Nimzo Indian (2007). But I did borrow and modify a few lines in 2021, from Kotronias' 2014 sveshnikov book - more of a reference use though.