Valentin Bogdanov on the Grünfeld Defense, published by Gambit in 2009 in the Chess Explained series, which explains an opening through complete annotated games rather than variation tables.
Eight chapters, each on one of White’s main tries: the Fianchetto Grünfeld with g3, non-standard lines with cxd5, the Classical Exchange with Ne2, the Modern Exchange with Nf3, the Modern Exchange with Rb1, the Russian System with Qb3, the lines with Bf4 or Bg5, and the closed systems with e3. Bogdanov gives the reasoning behind the moves as well as the moves, explaining for instance why White works so hard to keep a pawn on d4 and what the …Bg4 pin costs Black in return. A list of games and an index of variations close the book.
Best for: club players learning the Grünfeld from either side. Intermediate.