Unfortunately, Chessville has not posted new material in the last 5 months, and I am unsure when it will become active again. Therefore, I have decided to start posting reviews here, in "Sunday Book Reviews".
For the most part I will cover unorthodox or aggressive chess openings, as I did at Chessville, which should be of interest to many readers. For example, I have reviewed a number of books in the Secrets of Opening Surprises series (#4, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12), and it seems reasonable to give a look at #13.
I have reviewed books about openings less travelled (examples: Starting Out: d-pawn Attacks - the Colle-Zukertort, Barry and 150 Attacks by IM Richard Palliser; Starting Out: The Dutch Defense by Neil McDonald; and The Trompowsky by Nigel Davies), openings off of the beaten path (examples: Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1.d4 by Richard Palliser; Tiger's Modern by Tiger Hillarp Persson; and Chess On the Edge Volume 1, 2 and 3 - 100 Selected Games of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles, by FM Bruce Harper, GM Yasser Seirawan, with contributions by IM Gerard Welling,) and openings to which there is hardly a path at all (examples: Two Books by Richard Moody Jr. - Magic: Black to Move and Win! and Universal Chess: The Search For Truth And Beauty; Winning with the Krazy Kat and Old Hippo, by Gary K. Gifford, Davide Rozzoni and Bill Wall; and Challenging the Sicilian with 2.a3!? by Alexei Bezgodov).
I have even reviewed books on openings that challenge the Jerome Gambit in outrageousness, and which have inspired me to write my own tome on that duckbilled platypus of chess openings (Unorthodox Chess by Some Loser and In Your Face Chess Novelties by Andrew Tocher).
Please take a minute to let me know what you think about this idea.
Coming next Sunday Book Review: Captain Jack Sparrow!
