New Book by Canadian Author: Cummings, the English

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 16:38

Canadian IM David Cummings has published a chess book with Everyman: Opening Repertoire: The English. 

Rather than going into the familiar structures with g3, which were extremely well-explored in repertoire books by Marin and Kosten, Cummings' repertoire is based on the Maroczy vs ...g6 or ...b6, and e3 and Qc2 against most other defences. In addition to broadening the repertoire of 1.c4 players, the IQP and hanging pawns middlegames that this repertoire will often go toward will make it useful for both 1.d4 and 1...d5 players. 

It was published in mid-December in Europe, and you can expect to find it in Strategy Games in February.

PDF Sample: Intro and first part of the Anti-Slav chapter:
https://www.everymanchess.com/downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/129/

David Cummings is an International Master, the author of "The Symmetrical English" (Everyman, 2001), and a writer for Chesspublishing.com, where he is the editor of the Flank Openings section. You can follow some of the discussion here:

http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?board=flankopenings