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| May-01-04 | | square dance: does anybody have any reviews for the book "pawn power in chess" by hans kmoch? i have heard it being discussed on this site so i picked it up yesterday for $9.95. |
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| Jun-06-04 | | PizzatheHut: <square dance> How is "Pawn Power in Chess"? I've considered buying it, and would really like to hear what you think of it. |
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| Jun-06-04 | | square dance: <pizzathehut> i read about two pages and put it down. kmoch uses very strange, from my point of view anyway, terminalogy to describe what he is talking about. i had heard of the book before so when i saw it for only $9.95 i decided to pick it up. i asked for reviews of the book here and was told that it is a difficult book to get through considering the wording kmoch uses. i also found this to be true. if you have the patience to learn this terminalogy then buy it, if not then it would be a waste of your money. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | iron maiden: Apparently it was Kmoch who first coined Bobby Fischer's 1956 masterpiece against Byrne as "the game of the century." |
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Jul-16-04
 | | Eggman: Pawn Power In Chess has somewhere around 140 original terms, if I recall. That the book (which was revised in algebraic not too, too long ago) lacks a glossary is therefore unforgivable. Otherwise, I'd say it is excellent. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | ForeverYoung: One of the best annotators of all time. He did some excellent work for Chess Life and Review and Chess Review. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | Tennyson: I have the reprinted 1975 Tartan Books copy of _Pawn Power in Chess_ The illustrations of the pincer lever were most illuminating, but I have to agree that his terminology is non-triditional, to say the least. A sampling: "The quartgrip must be understood as containing a duo of shielded stragglers..." I can't be sure, but I think Kmoch's funny descriptions stem from the ideas in the book first being drafted in German and using Dr. Walter Meiden of the Department of Romance Languages of Ohio State University as a consulant. Think of a non-chess-playing English professor trying to describe what happens on a chess board and you have the effect rendered. Verbose and colorful, full of adjectives and verbs, but quite enjoyable. Rather like reading Anthony Burgess's _A Clockwork Orange_ |
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| Jul-16-04 | | northernsoul: that sounds great - like Finnegans Wake for chess. I can't wait to get to the Chess Suppliers in my lunch break and have a look. Quartgrips ahoy! |
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| Jul-16-04 | | AdrianP: <Tennyson> Puts me in mind of a character in Martin Amis' Information describing his latest novel and it's bravura scene containing 4 unreliable narrators conversing on mobile phones whilst negotiating a revolving door. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | Fulkrum: I'm reading it now. Very good section on bishops. The section on Knights is weak in my opinion but the idea of using a knight and a lever together is new to me. My chess teacher (Dan Heisman) suggested I read it. |
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Jul-18-04
| | Eggman: Fulkrum, if you are going to take on Pawn Power in Chess, the following website will be most useful: http://www.chessville.com/Reference...
It provides a glossary for the book. |
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| Jul-18-04 | | square dance: <eggman> that link may be the most useful thing anyone has ever posted on this site!!! i can finally give the book a good read. thank you!!! |
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| Jul-18-04 | | Lawrence: So "luff" is <the longer side of the horizontal beam of the pawn cross.> And to think that worse things happen at sea! |
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| Jul-19-04 | | Fulkrum: Eggman, thanks so much. I just finished the discussion on the Paulson ram system. Very interesting but I am a little confused about Kmoch's definition of span ratios. I will check it out right now. |
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| Aug-16-04 | | Kaspy2: here you find downloadable game compilations for many chess books including the Kmoch stuff. saves some bother ...
http://gambitchess.com/index2.htm |
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Aug-16-04
 | | cu8sfan: Wow! <Kaspy2> This is so cool! I've been looking for something like it for a long time. Thanks for that link! I found four of my books right away. |
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| Aug-16-04 | | Kaspy2: np. after your remark my entry is less prominent though for others to find ... it might be repeated and left w/o comment for a while. tks |
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| Aug-16-04 | | Kaspy2: look here for game download of printed books ! no retyping ! |
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| Oct-30-04 | | apprenticetocaissa: Is Hans Kmoch still alive? |
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| Oct-30-04 | | WMD: Well, he died in 1973. |
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| Nov-15-04 | | kostich in time: Kmoch was one of the great chess reporters and analysts, but he was a player of the third rank. His annotations in Chess Review were always very good, and he was responsible for some great chess tournament books,including Bled 1931,and "World Chessmasters in Battle Royal", about Hague-Moscow 1948. Sadly, the latter book is out of print...there were about seven books written about Hague-Moscow, of which the best is supposedly Euwes,which considering Euwes less than stellar showing in that tournament, must make for melancholy reading. Kmochs' best chess writing( for those who can read German), is found in the great Tournament book, Karlsbad SchachmeisterTurnier 1929 by (and Im not kidding) Spiellman, Nimzozich, Tartakover,and somebody named Brinckman.
Kmoch provided the round by round commentary.
One of his most memorable..and sadly, acute observations was made about Fischer" Finally, America produces its greatest Chess Master, and he just turns out to be a stubborn boy" |
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| Dec-24-04 | | MidnightDuffer: Depending on your level of experience; chalk up at least a few extra (endgame) wins if you read "Pawn Power." |
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| Jul-25-05 | | aw1988: Huzzah! Happy Birthday to the great author! |
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| Jul-25-06 | | BIDMONFA: Hans Kmoch KMOCH, Hans
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kmoch_hans....
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| Jul-25-06 | | MaxxLange: "Pawn Power in Chess" is a great book and is flawed only by the grotesque terminology that Kmoch invented and which no one ever used (example: "Leucopenia" for "light square weakness") |
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