I have been receiving a lot of interesting email from readers over the last few months. My last four columns have elicited more commentary than usual, with readers supplying specific complaints, examples and analysis related to the books under review. I would like to include some of their observations here. While I am on the subject of emails I have a lamentable but important request.
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Over the past few years, the email that I most frequently receive has to do with soliciting my advice regarding how to improve, e. These emails are almost always polite and genuine—the writers often inform me about their ratings, how long they have played and where, what teachers they have had, what books they have read, and the like. I think they would agree that I have always done my best to answer such questions as well as I could. But this is properly a teaching function and I find it time- and energy-consuming to respond to such emails, particularly as this column is a volunteer effort.
Therefore, reluctantly, I would ask readers to please limit their emails to matters addressed in the reviews. I admit to playing over games for fun, without the use of a computer and with my critical faculties happily asleep.
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Thus, I did not anticipate the difficulties readers of various playing strengths have had with these books, nor paid enough attention to their thoroughness or analytical drawbacks. There is a great deal of theory and history behind this line, and it is one that players of the Black side would certainly have to be familiar with.
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A well-known idea, for example, is Be2, leaving c3 in reserve, is not mentioned at all. Finally, Epstein points out that the popular idea of 1. Nf3 a6 is given in one lightly annotated game with 5. Be2, whereas the important 5. Even when this was all pointed out to me, I had great difficulties confirming it.
To quote from my own review: But I'm immediately annoyed by the lack of even a simple index for this most transpositional of openings.
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