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| Jul-08-05 | | mack: Mac's a great writer, his King's Gambit book is very neat too. |
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| Aug-23-05 | | THE pawn: I got from him chess: the art of logical thinking, it's a move-by-move analysis of thirty extremely great strategical games of the laster quarter of century. Very interesting book that helps a lot in my own games. I also like his style of writing, sometimes, you think of chess writers has school dropouts that just do not know how to write, Neil is not one of them. |
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Aug-24-05
 | | WannaBe: <THE pawn> After reading your posts discussing/raving on Neil's books, I got "Chess: Art of Logical Thinking" yesterday, and I must say he explains the position and upcoming ideas of attack and piece placements quite well. I will have to get get the Concise Chess Openings/middle/end soon. But thanks for your advice. :-) |
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| Aug-27-05 | | chess man: I own "Chess: Art of Logical Thinking" and I've found it to be very instructive and helpful. And of course enjoyable. |
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| Feb-19-06 | | redlance: Anybody have his book on the english? |
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: England's lowest-rated grandmaster. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: Not in my book. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: Who's in your book then? |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: http://www.penguin.co.uk/ |
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: Heh - very subtle - but of our country's active grandmasters, Neil's ranked the lowest isn't he? |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: Is he active? |
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| Jul-23-06 | | biglo: FIDE 2374. Looks like he has been inactive for several years. |
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| Jul-23-06 | | whiskeyrebel: active or not, his "main line Caro-Kann" book is fantastic. He's a great teacher. I find myself remembering positions (and more importantly the strategic concepts related to them) from the games he discussed in it many months later. |
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Jul-23-06
 | | Gypsy: <EnglishOpeningc4: One of the best opening book writers of all time> A fine chess writer all around. |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Karpova: What does the <R> stand for - <Ronald>? |
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| Mar-15-07 | | unsound: Just to echo a 3-year-old comment, I find McDonald's opening books to be the best I've read. They seem to me to be not just opening books, but instructive books about chess more broadly--the explanation of the opening serves as a kind of vehicle for introducing the reader to interesting ways of thinking about the game. So they're far more than just a set of variations (though they're that too, with good illustrative games). I've got his books on the Dutch and on 1.e4, and I love them both. I've never met him and he didn't pay me to write this, I guess I should add, since I'm being so effusive. |
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| Mar-15-07 | | GBKnight: I have not read any of his books, but he was playing on the next board to me a couple of weeks ago in a league match, and had a very instructive post-mortem with my club colleague (who he had just beaten). It was much appreciated; highly rated players are not always this accommodating. |
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May-06-08
| | Gypsy: Recently, I had to take a poignant trip home. I packed also a chess book that I recently bought and gave it to my father. A couple of weeks later he suddenly suddenly interupted me from my work: <You know -- that book you gave me -- that is the best chess book I have ever red or seen.> The book is ... Neil McDonnald: The Giants of Strategy. |
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| May-11-08 | | Knight13: This guy's also a grandmaster.
The Giants of Chess Strategy is very good, yes, for advanced players OR someone who already understands positional chess. |
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May-11-08
| | Gypsy: <Knight13> Yes, my old fellow qualifies as such: He is quite a connoisseur of positional chess; and he is still quite good at it. |
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May-27-08
 | | ketchuplover: There's an unfavorable review of Starting Out:1.e4 at www.chessville.com |
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| May-10-09 | | ToTheDeath: This guy was great on SNL's Weekend Update. |
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| May-29-10 | | newzild: I'm currently reading his book "Bb5 Sicilian Revealed". It's a pretty good opening manual. A lot of typos, though. |
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May-29-10
 | | wordfunph: <newzild> hope you visit <ChessBookForum> to share your thoughts on "Bb5 Sicilian Revealed"..thanks! User: chessbookforum |
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Jul-09-11
| | wordfunph: When GM Paul Motwani played Neil McDonald in the 1st Eksakt Masters tournament in Tilburg in June 1996, he already had three GM norms....but didn't know it! Neil wrote to Paul four months later to explain that he had received a new title by surprise! Source: C.O.O.L. Chess by Paul Motwani |
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