| Jun-05-04 | | fantasticplastic: I was riffling through Sid Packard's 1097 games of Adolph Anderssen: Master of Attack, which despite its modern algebraic notation, has a lot of tiny errors (some games are indexed incorrectly, for instance). I found it curious that Adolph Anderssen got knocked out 6-0 by this Hirschfeld guy in casual games (according to both this site and the book, so the games are obviously authentic). These games mean much more to chess historians than the Einborn-Anderssen "series" (since Einborn only preserved his wins and a few draws). |
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Jun-05-04
 | | refutor: do you recommend master of attack? |
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| Jun-06-04 | | fantasticplastic: Well, it's includes 80 of Anderssen's chess problems published in 1842. It also includes an obituary essay from the period that is worth a read. But regarding the chess content...I can't quite say why, but when you throw a book of 1000+ chess games with little more than algebraic notation symbols and all the #, !, and other symbols that make up international notation, it can get awful boring. That's why I like reading older books with descriptive notation, even with limited commentary...the "feel" of the recording of the moves just looks more interesting. The Immortal and Evergreen are intensely annotated though in the book. In short, I do recommend the book, despite it ~$25 price, but not enthusiastically. Anyway, my opinion is that you get Morphy's Games of Chess by Sergeant. The annotations are indeed older than the modern ones in the Anderssen book, but they are not inaccurate and you learn a lot more from Morphy's games, to say nothing of the great annotation that's in the Morphy book. "Master of Attack" would be at best a supplement to the Morphy book, which you should buy first. It's a cheap Dover one, so no worries there. =) |
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Jun-07-04
| | refutor: thanks for the review...i already have sergeant's morphy book, and i thought the anderssen book would be the next logical step...thanks a lot :) |
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