Description
In this book IM Panjwani presents the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. He demonstrates from the second move a dynamic way to fight 1.e4! He covers all main lines and side-lines, even the most critical ones get a new and objective treatment. Raja’s book is recommended for all players that are eager to enter critical lines in this exciting Sicilian Opening. (245 pages)
Table of content
CHAPTER 1. CLASSICAL VARIATION (Be2)
CHAPTER 2. 7.Bc4: ANTI-YUGOSLAV VARIATION
CHAPTER 3. 7.Bc4: MY SYSTEM
CHAPTER 4. MAROCZY BIND: BREYER VARIATION
CHAPTER 5. MAROCZY BIND: MAIN LINE
CHAPTER 6. 4.Qxd4 VARIATION
CHAPTER 7. ANTI-SICILIANS: ALAPIN AND MORRA
Teaser – Raja Panjwani – The Hyper Accelerated Dragon, Extended New Edition
Ivan (verified owner) –
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Christophe Santune (verified owner) –
Alan Kirshner (verified owner) –
Format and layout are underappreciated aspects when it
comes to chess books. All too many chess books are
predominantly blocks of variations, type set in a thicket
of numbers and letters such as B 3.285(b) with
following variations set in a maze of parenthesis and
ellipses.
Picking one book at random from my shelf has text.
such as”11 N-c2 (11f4? ExF4 12 Rxf4 N4d5 13 Nxd5 Nxd5
14 Rf1 Ne3?? Occurred once but 14…Nc3! 15 Qb3 Nxc2 is
extremely strong) 11…Nc6 (…Nc2 12Qc2 c6 13 a4 gives
interesting compensation12 Bxc6 bxc6 13d4 (14…two
games have gone……”
This was only the first half of the paragraph and this
book was voted book of the year by readers of Chess Café.
I don’t know how many readers actually will sit down
with a set and go through books like this. They have
stronger constitutions and more patience than I.
Another aspect of layout common to most chess
books is the choice of where to put diagrams. Generally
they are placed at the beginning of a variation thicket so
the reader has to play out the variation to see if the
position at the end of the variation thicket is one the
reader might actually might be one that matches the
reader’s style, a position the reader finds of interest, a
position the reader might actually prepare to play.
On the other hand, Thinkers Publishing almost always
formats books so they can be useful in a practical sense.
The editors allow the author to cut through mazes of
and select the most important and useful. Today
uses a database so those who want to delve deeper can
do so with a right click.
I for one particularly appreciate that Thinkers often
places diagrams at the end of variations. This allows
readers to see where the variation is going with out taking
out a set and playing through all the moves. The variation
I quoted from an award winning book, with a diagram at
the beginning of the variation is like getting on a train not
knowing where the train is headed. On the other hand,
Thinker’s format with the diagram at the end is like seeing
the destination first and then choosing whether or not to
get on the train.
I now have 18 books from Thinkers Publishing and
have never been disappointed. I wish my finances allowed
me to have more.
Alan Kirshner
Toledo Ohio
TP editorial –
Thanks Alan for your honest review, at the moment we work with 3 different kind of software to optimize our books, and we will try
to do so for the following ones, and trust me there are some serious one coming. On the other hand the economic crisis caused by
a Russian war makes life tough and we wished we could lower our prices and enable customers like you to buy more Thinkers books.
Anyhow, I started Thinkers because most content and layout produced by the existing publishers was so bad, I got brain and eye damage.
TP editorial –
And be aware that all ‘book awards’ competitions are not real ones, we never enter these competitions because we know upfront who will win.
It will hardly ever be Thinkers. We live by serious comments from our buyers like yours, not by jury members who are fully clueless and paying paid to
write nonsense.