I've been desperately eager to get Steffen Pedersen’s THE MAIN LINE FRENCH: 3.Nc3, but having just gotten it, I'm convinced that the book is not at all up to his normally high standards. I know that I'm a sort of expert on the Winawer, but even given that perspective, Pedersen seems surprisingly unaware of recent ideas in and writings on many variations (way too many). He slights currently critical and unresolved lines, and adds very little that is original. As with Ward's book above, I wonder if he has much experience with this opening, and whether he got much beyond databases in his research. Of course, any French player including myself will want to have the latest book on 3.Nc3, and Pedersen's treatment of 3.Nc3 dxe4 and the MacCutcheon Variation look like the best out there. Nevertheless I'm disappointed.

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