Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:18:17 09/03/99
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On September 03, 1999 at 00:26:31, Charles Unruh wrote: >On September 02, 1999 at 05:44:15, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On September 02, 1999 at 04:47:51, Tim Wiegele wrote: >> >>>Can anyone point me in the direction of a good KID book? Thorough and in >>>algebraic (or figurine) notation preferred. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Tim >> >>If you mean KID=King's Indian Defence and book=for reading and no opening book >>for Fritz etc. then I highly recommend Gufeld:Winning with the King's Indian > > >As a Kings Indian player and Aficianado for the last 8 years, i must go against >this recomendation, this book by gufeld is not terribly good, further he has >directly PLAGIARISED almost every game analysis in the book, word for word! This was unknown to me. Which books? Anyway, he EXPLAINS very clearly the ideas behind the variation and does not only show variations. >Not a bold statement when i have several books with the EXACT same wording and >game anotation written far prior to this book. The best book on the KID is >probably "Mastering the Kings Indian Defense" by Bellin and Ponzienetto. Don't >even bother with the "Complete Kings Indian" by Keene, though some good >instruction can be gleaned from "tactics in the Kings Indian" by CGM Nesis.
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