Opening Repertoire: The Iron English

I started playing chess in May last year. I played around with the English, but gave it up in favour of a Catalan. I then got too annoyed with the Benoni to ever play D4 again. I love this approach to the English, serving almost like a combination of a stonewall and a King's Indian Attack. The authors break them down well, and provide analysis at multiple levels, so that a patszer like me can get something out of it, while there's detailed game analysis for the people who are actually good. I'm currently running at about a 60% win rate in the English, despite only having skimmed it, rather than playing through every game.

An interesting system that gives a lot of fun playing.

Un bouquin qui me semble bien conçu et dont le propos est d'expliquer les plans qui se cachent derrière ce systeme Botvinnik & attaque Mikenas. Un bon outil pour accroitre ses connaissances d'après moi.

My god 460 pages ! such amazing book with density and very clear explanations. diagram and print are very clean.

The book uses pretty much solely complete annotated games to teach. If you go put the lines in a chess engine these days, there are just too many flat-out mistakes in it to be of value for serious tournament play. Part of that must be due to the age of the book, but not all. White is all-too-often actually equal or worse at the end of variations, sometimes very glaringly, such as missing thematic f-pawn pushes (when a black knight blocks the c8 bishop - pushing f5 would have won on the spot), and recommending d3 instead. It appears they took the lines from the games and sort of just went with them, with some tweaks to make an annotated games collection into a decent an opening repertoire, but could be much improved... I'd wait for an updated edition. I'm a big fan of Richard Palliser's work, but this one fell short.