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The last 50 pages are devoted to the Rubinstein. Chapter 21 Section D is the Fort Knox which lasts about 5 pages. (He never calls it the Fort Knox Variation.) Fromper I have the same attitude as you. I avoid the Tarrasch by playing a narrow and safe line of the Rubinstein, although I don't play the Fort Knox specifically. However, I bought How to Beat the French Defence by Tzermiadianos to broaden my horizons regarding the Tarrasch French.
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A treat for you all to start the New Year. Happy New Year to you all and I hope some of these books make you better chess players. Here is the next book list I told you about a few weeks ago. Just a Blogger trying to write about chess. I make no claims to being an historian or biographer. I simply find chess players to be fascinating people and many of the great, near great and not so great were more than just a name in a crosstable or a game score.
I started playing the Fort Knox, because it's recommended in 'How to Play Against 1.e4' by GM Neil McDonald. It seems like a safe, solid way to play against both 3. Nd2 and 3. Nc3 without having to study theory, and it gets black's problem bishop out from behind the e6 pawn early.
But there is actually one tactical line, where white plays Nge5 after black's Bc6, and white might actually get a winning attack with a knight sac on e6 or f7. I'm a little nervous about facing that line, but it would only be someone who has studied this particular line who would ever play that. So I'm mildly curious about what books (if any) might recommend that for white, and how they say to proceed against the defense that McDonald recommends. Mostly a theoretical discussion though - I can't imagine any opponents at my level actually studying this particular line in that much detail as white.