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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Dynamic English. Sep 26, Serge Pierro rated it really liked it Shelves: chess. This book was a revelation.
I've become very comfortable in playing this opening. Kosten does a good job explaining the different variations. Though, there are times when I question his assessment of certain lines. Oct 11, fourtriplezed added it Shelves: chess. I am crap at chess. I spent a lot of money on books that I thought would at least make me competitive. Nothing worked. I think these chess books will all sit in a box gathering dust and one day I might get the urge to rejoin the local club and get butchered by 12 year olds so then may have a further look.
Generic review for all half finished chess books I will never finish. I've come to rely on Kosten's guide and have had some good wins with The English but also many losses. I agree with previous reviewers that TK can be a bit overly generous when evaluating some lines. For it's time though first published it's an excellent guide to an interesting and challenging opening.
But in the days of easily accessed computer analyses, quite a few of the lines don't seem to work. For example the Agincourt defence e6 can be tricky as well as the Keres system. Mar 01, Paul rated it liked it Shelves: chess. I finally bought this as I used to play the English as white before switching to the King's Indian Attack for a year and it sort of made sense to have an alternative that I know. The similarities are the fianchetto of the King's Bishop. I like the book although I think Korsten is slightly generous in his assessment of some of the positions White ends up playing - there were a few where I'd pick the black pieces a KID set up with pawns on e5 and f5 over white's position, if only because their s I finally bought this as I used to play the English as white before switching to the King's Indian Attack for a year and it sort of made sense to have an alternative that I know.
I like the book although I think Korsten is slightly generous in his assessment of some of the positions White ends up playing - there were a few where I'd pick the black pieces a KID set up with pawns on e5 and f5 over white's position, if only because their strategy is more obvious. Edward rated it really liked it Sep 24, Mark Hinton rated it really liked it Dec 09, Bruce Norville rated it liked it Jul 02, A Jeroen Piket said to me the other day that: «The English is a good opening if White uses it to transpose into a d4 mainline at the right moment».
Which is certainly true at the highest levels, but lower down there are a lot of players like me who go out of their way to avoid such mainlines, and so it was with interest that I looked at the anti-King's Indian line 1 Nf3 Nf6 2 g3 g6 3 b4!?
A Actually, I prefer the line 2 c4 g6 3 b4 myself, although play is very similar, and indeed transposes in Sulskis - Afek. A Last, and certainly least, Klas Johnson, a Budapest Gambit player, asked me about the reversed Budapest: 1 Nf3 d5 2 e4 , which apparently is called the Tennyson Gambit. Is it better or worse than the Budapest? Well, the absence of the c5-pawn compared with the Budapest seems to aid White if Black defends his e4-pawn with Nf6, but helps Black if he plays Please feel free to share any of your thoughts with me, whatever they are, suggestions, criticisms just the polite ones, please , etc.
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