Dear Friends!

 I am happy to announce, that second Volume of my Grandmaster Repertoire is almost out. The book is fully completed and should be printed in a few days. According to QualityChess company the book should be in the shops throughout the Europe at 1 st of March. Certainly you can order it already on www.qualitychess.co.uk/

 Here is the promotion of the book :

Grandmaster Repertoire 2
1.d4 - Volume Two
By
Boris Avrukh
Excerpt from Grandmaster Repertoire 2 - 1.d4 Volume 2,
available on www.qualitychess.co.uk
Creating the Grandmaster Repertoire series seemed a natural idea. There is a glut of opening
books at the Starting Out level. These books have certainly been refreshing, but they have
almost completely replaced high-level opening books.
As chess fans, we felt we were missing out, and because we can, we decided to do
something about it.
The books in the Grandmaster Repertoire series are written by grandmasters, edited by
grandmasters, and will certainly be read by grandmasters. This does not mean that players
who are not grandmasters cannot read them. We have worked hard to make our books
clear in their presentation and to make it possible for the readers to decide the depth to
which they want to study them.
When we were young and trying to be up-and-coming, we understood that you do not
have to remember everything in an opening book in order to use it. It is our hope that those
readers who find this repertoire too extensive and detailed, will ignore many of the details.
Even now that we are grandmasters, we see the bolded moves as what we want to memorize,
and the notes as explanations and illustrations.
It is our conviction that you will eventually be more successful by playing the main lines,
simply because they are based on better moves. Instinctively most players know this, but
they fear losing to a prepared line and thus turn to unambitious systems, or unhealthy
surprises. The opponent will not be able to use his preparation but, sadly, will not need it.
These sidelines generally end in uninspiring positions almost automatically.
Possibly the main reason why high-level opening books have disappeared is the rise of
databases. It has been assumed that there is no point in having traditional opening books
anymore, as you can look it all up in the database. Some rather lazy authors have a system:
collect a few hundred games from the database, give Fritz a few moments, then hit Print.
Such books add nothing to chess literature. We have seen enough of them and have never
wanted to add to that pile.
In these days of multi-million game databases, we all have access to information, what
is lacking is understanding. In the Grandmaster Repertoire series, very strong players will
share their understanding and suggest strong new moves that are in no one else’s database.
We are excited about this new series and hope that the reader will share some of that
excitement.
John Shaw & Jacob Aagaard
Contents
Key to symbols used & Bibliography 6
Foreword by Grandmaster Boris Gelfand 7
Bibliography 8
Foreword by the Author 9
The Bogo-Indian Defence
1 4...c5 13
2 4...Bxd2† 19
3 4...a5 30
4 4...Qe7 36
The Budapest Gambit
5 Farajowicz Variation 59
6 Classical Variation 66
Benoni Systems
7 Catalan Benoni 92
8 Snake Benoni 102
9 Benoni without …¤f6 108
10 Reluctant Benoni 113
11 Czech Benoni 126
12 Old Benoni 144
13 Modern Benoni 164
14 Benko Gambit 201
The Dutch Defence
15 Stonewall Variation 221
16 Classical Variation 243
17 Leningrad Variation 262
18 St Petersburg Variation 289
The Grünfeld Defence
19 Dynamic Variation 297
20 Solid Variation 337
The King’s Indian Defence
21 6...Bg4 367
22 6...Nc6 & 7...Bg4 370
23 6...Nc6 & 7...Bf5 379
24 6...Nc6 & 7...e5 387
25 6...Nc6 & 7...a6 400
26 6...Nc6 & 7...Rb8 414
27 6...c6 426
28 6...Nbd7 460
29 9...Qb6 491
The Modern Defence
30 Wade Defence 501
31 The Modern Defence 521
Minor Systems
32 2...b6 538
33 b-pawn Systems 542
34 English Defence 556
35 Black Knights Tango 572
36 Old Indian 578
37 Queen’s Indian Attempt 587
38 Odd ideas 593

 You can find also one free chapter ( StoneWall ) on the following link: http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/10/free_ebooks/

My first Book project is 1.d4 Repertoire According to Boris Avrukh . To my great suprise the first volume has a great success, it was translated to Italian and  German languages. The second volume should be out in the middle of February and I hope it will be not less popular.