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@Amonanderlake I don't see why not. It may be relatively demanding but the notes are good quality and top-level chess from that era tends to be less ferociously complex than top-level chess now, so in…

@chesspawn123 I'm glad my Pirc in Black and White still looks interesting! The sequel was Chess Developments: The Pirc (2012). Look up Sadler's videos/blogs, and you surely already know to keep an eye…

Hello again chesspawn123, I haven't got Karolyi on Karpov, but since it was written a long time before Stockfish 16 it's inevitable that those evaluations wouldn't match up. That doesn't necessarily m…

Hello chesspawn123, this particular book is not perfect, and I agree in principle that players tend to expect too much from opening books (and also study opening works too much at the expense of other…

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C_mason, I agree. I like the Middle game series he did with Kramer. His Chess Review articles can now be found online. By the way, Edward Winter has a lot of information on Euwe (this is in Timman's b…

Thank you, millicentbarnes! FearNoseAll, to me the explanations in the Euwe book are clearer than in the Spassky book. (I believe New in Chess are doing one on Morphy.) Still it is true that Timman as…

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Dear Sov, thanks for this. Yes, I am planning to write more posts on this, though that may take me a while. My first Pirc book was published in 2007 and there have been quite a lot of developments sin…

Thanks for this, and that's interesting to know about the Chessable course. I remember 4 Be3 a6, pioneered by Kramnik, seemed a.big discovery when I wrote Chess Developments: The Pirc.