Title: Good for Beginners
Product review: An interesting try for a basic opening system for White.Soltis recommends playing the Colle versus most replies.He suggests the Stonewall Attack against ...e6 systems and the Torre Attack against Indian Systems, like the Gruenfeld and Kings Indian. So far so good. Several authors have trotted out the Colle in this role. I have a few things I don't like about this book, however.The material is loosely presented and I found at least one move order problem. Soltis recommends 1.d4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Bd3 heading for either the Colle or Stonewall Attack. He recommends 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf6 g6 3.Bg5 the Torre Attack. But what if, in the first variation, Black plays 3...g6(!)? As one of the previous reviewers stated the bishop can't get to g5. Now what?? In addition, to get the Colle and Stonewall Attack to fit, he uses the older Kolty Colle with the pawn to c3 not the superior (my opinion) Colle system with the Qbishop developed at b2.Not worth the price in my opinion, much better books out there...
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