Archangel & New Archangel

Rating:
Summary: A nice opening book
Review: This book is quite a nice opening book to have. It has the traditional variation by variation format (I am not a fan of 'games collection' format). Although the author is slightly too optimistic in reviewing black positions, the overall judgement is quite OK. With tremendous theory on Ruy Lopez opening, any book will hardly cover all theories in single volume (In fact some of critical variations is only covered in two pages in this book). Nevertheless, I believe this book will supply me more than enough information to play Archangel variation. Especially, I am very attracted to the sharp ideas inside this variation. One caution: the chance that your opponent will play a 'pure' Ruy Lopez after 1.e4 in Amateur tournament is not 100%, so you must be prepared for other openings too.