THE SVESHNIKOV RELOADED

Author: Dorian Rogozenko

Quality Chess

www.qualitychessbooks.com

341 pages

$24.95

Reviewed by John Donaldson

Quality Chess -- founded by IMs Jacob Aagard, John Shaw and Ari Ziegler -- may have only been around for a few years but it is already making a name for itself. Recently its LEARN FROM THE LEGENDS by Mihai Marin won the Chesscafe Book of the Year prize. A few months ago it published two excellent, but very different, opening books.

THE SVESHNIKOV RELOADED by Dorian Rogozenko is everything you could want in a book on a heavily analyzed opening:

1) The author knows his stuff and is ideally a strong player or a good player who works with a strong one and who has a great deal of practical experience with the opening -- Rogozenko is a GM who advised Ponomariov for the aborted match with Kasparov. 

2) Irrelevant lines have been removed.

3) Relevant and very current stuff is well organized.

4) Critical positions are pointed out.

5) Improvements are suggested.

6) The author anticipates future developments.

7) Clear explanatory prose is given where appropriate to explain positional ideas and tactical themes.

8) The book is well laid out and easy to use with a comprehensive index. 

If you play the Sveshnikov you must have this book.

Highly Recommended

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