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| Jun-21-09 | | Boomie: <Chess Magazines>
Does the Chess Informant count as a magazine? Back in the day it was the only bomb in town. |
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Jun-21-09
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| Jun-21-09 | | Boomie: kingscrusher: I am glad to see some comments on my idea. My favourite chess book in the world - "The World of Chess" by Saidy and Lessing, saids about winning in the introduction to the effect of:
Many players win, to create beauty and everlasting truth. If this is the criteria and not just to be a titled player, or a famous player, and this site is about beauty and not just technical engine analysis (see the current crop of voting games), then I think there should be a drive to see chess beauty and encourage members to put their most beautiful games on show. Maybe there could even be chess beauty prize competitions for games played by members each month from whatever the source - e.g. online blitz, online correspondence, or Over the board tournaments, etc. |
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| Jun-22-09 | | Boomie: LIFE Master AJ: This game is - of course - given in many chess books.
Two favorites are Irving Chernev's: "1000 Best Short Games of Chess," and Andrew Soltis's: "The Best Games of Boris Spassky." |
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| Jun-22-09 | | Boomie: parisattack: These are the English language books I know on Fischer-Spassky 1972 Match.
Can anyone add to the list, please?
Does anyone know if Pachman's book on the match was ever translated into English? Of course, the match was also annotated in every known chess magazine. I have those for 9 periodicals, I assume literally dozens more. Some of these are getting HTF - The orginal Golombek, the Clarke and the Karklins (at least with dust jacket). Fischer-Spassky 1972 Gligoric
Fischer Spassky 1972 Bevan/Burchell/Gilbert
Fischer Spassky 1972 Golombek
Fischer Spassky 1972 Birdsall
Fischer Spassky 1972 Wyndham
Fischer World Champion Euwe
Spassky CCCP Fischer USA Clarke
Bobby Fischer’s Conquest of the World Chess Champtionship Fine Fischer-Spassky – From the Soviet Point of View Karklins Chess World Championship 1972 Evans/Smith
Fischer v Spassky Reykjavik 1972 Alexander
Fischer Spassky – The New York Times Report Reshevsky/Horowitz Reshevsky on the Fischer Spassky Games Reshevsky
Extreme Chess Purdy |
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| Jun-22-09 | | benjinathan: <Boomie> "Bobby Fischer Goes to War". |
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| Jun-22-09 | | timhortons: http://astore.amazon.ca/chesfedeofc... Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate
By Hikaru Nakamura, Bruce Harper
List Price: CDN$ 23.41
Price: CDN$ 15.94 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $39. Details I will surely get my copy of these. |
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| Jun-23-09 | | Boomie: <Eric Schiller: For those players not yet too advanced, you might be interested in my new edition of Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games, just published by Cardoza. The new edition has an additional chapter of endgames. The book is aimed at players 1200-1700.> |
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Jun-23-09
 | | Phony Benoni: <Boomie> Both Sides of the Chessboard, by Robert Byrne and Ivo Nei. I can't check this link right now, but see if it works: http://www.amazon.com/Both-sides-ch... |
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Jun-23-09
| | Phony Benoni: By the way, I'm finding a different title for the book by Purdy: <How Fischer won : world chess championship 1972>. Is that the same as "Extreme Chess"? There are several books which deal with the match it its larger personal or geopolitical setting; for example, <Fields of Force> by George Steiner. Were you interested in those? Finally, if you really want completeness, James R. Schroeder did publish one of his erratic world championship pamphlets on the match: <1972 World Championship Chess Match>. I haven't seen it, but if you're familiar with Schroeder's work I imagine it's typical. |
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| Jun-23-09 | | Calli: <Is that the same as "Extreme Chess"> Yes and no, "Extreme Chess" is a reprint combining three books about the 1935, 37 and 72 WCs. |
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Jun-24-09
 | | ChessBookForum: From our own <Eric Schiller> <Eric Schiller>: For those players not yet too advanced, you might be interested in my new edition of Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games, just published by Cardoza. The new edition has an additional chapter of endgames. The book is aimed at players 1200-1700. |
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| Jun-24-09 | | timhortons: <ChessBookForum>
I got a copy of his old edition book. |
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| Jun-24-09 | | parisattack: <Phony Benoni: By the way, I'm finding a different title for the book by Purdy: <How Fischer won : world chess championship 1972>. Is that the same as "Extreme Chess"?
There are several books which deal with the match it its larger personal or geopolitical setting; for example, <Fields of Force> by George Steiner. Were you interested in those? Finally, if you really want completeness, James R. Schroeder did publish one of his erratic world championship pamphlets on the match: <1972 World Championship Chess Match>. I haven't seen it, but if you're familiar with Schroeder's work I imagine it's typical.> Thanks for the additions to my list! Especially Both Sides which is excellent and Fields of Force. I have seen the Schroeder pamplet but do not have it - I love his annotations but of course the production values are awful (I.E. his Spassky book). Extreme Chess is the same thing but includes other Purdy work as well - as noted by <Calli> above. |
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Jun-24-09
| | Phony Benoni: <parisattack> Would Brad Darrach's <Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World> also qualify? |
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| Jun-24-09 | | parisattack: <Phony Benoni: <parisattack> Would Brad Darrach's <Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World> also qualify?> Yes and no... I am actually looking to find all the books and periodicals with the match games annotated. Right now I have 16 books, 9 periodicals. My goal is to consolidate all of the annotations into a single volume, with diagrams every five moves similar to the old Weltgeschichte des Schachs series. |
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Jun-25-09
| | ChessBookForum: ATTENTION CHESS BOOK LOVERS
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| Jun-25-09 | | parisattack: Question to the Forum -
What would be your three 'desert island' chess books? One? My three would be: Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces - Stohl, 500 Games of Chess - Tartakower and Grandmaster of Chess - Keres. If only one, the Keres book. Runners-up: World's Greatest Chess Games - Nunn, et al, Practical Chess Endings - Chernev and 100 Selected Games - Botvinnik. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | hms123: <paris attack>
My three would be:
1. Euwe and Kramer's <The Middle Game> (it's two volumes but if I couldn't take both, I would take vol. 1) 2. Kotov's <Think Like a Grandmaster> 3. Keres and Kotov <The Art of the Middlegame> If I had to pick one, it would be the Euwe and Kramer volume. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | parisattack: <hms123: <paris attack> > The Euwe/Kramer set is certainly a classic! I like that full game scores are given, instead of just positions as in many middlegame books. The two Pachman series', his separate volume 'Modern Chess Strategy' and of course Fine's Middle Game are also wonderful books. Znosky-Borovsky's The Middle Game in Chess is less well-known. We'll count the E/K set as one book! :) |
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| Jun-25-09 | | hms123: <paris attack> I have Pachman's MCS, Fine's book, and also Z-B's book leftover from 30+ years ago. I love them all.
Thanks for letting me count the two volume set as one. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | parisattack: <hms123: <paris attack> I have Pachman's MCS> '...from 30+ years ago.' You must be old, like me!
Pachman has a less well know paperback series - The Opening Game in Chess, The Middle Game in Chess and Chess Endings for the Practical Player - collectively called the 'Black Series - and they are quite good. |
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Jun-25-09
| | Phony Benoni: For me, #1 is easy, <Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953> by Bronstein. I consider this a first rate middle game book as well as a tournament book, and so much more. For #2-#3. say <Tal-Botvinnink 1960> by Tal and <500 Master Games of Chess> by Tartakower/Dumont, though I would find it hard to leave out both players' autobiographical games collections. Finally, I have to admit I've never read--or even seen--Kasparov's OMGP. They came out after I stopped buying books, and I didn't feel like investing the money. But just judging from the excerpts I see around here, it looks fascinating. However, I suppose the size and scope would make it more of a Desert Continent book. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | parisattack: <Phony Benoni: For me, #1 is easy, <Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953>> A GREAT choice, for sure! Bronstein's mix of hard analysis, commentary, psychology and ancedotes is wonderful. Tal's Life and Games would rate in the same niche. I enjoyed OMGP series but it is not really one of my ATFs - on the other hand I've never been a big Kasparov fan... Thanks for your choices. |
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| Jun-26-09 | | hms123: <Phony Benoni> Zurich, 1953 and Tal/Botvinnik, 1960, were very much in contention for my list. <paris attack> and so was Tal's Life and Games. And, no, I am not old like you--I am older by a few years, but not too many. |
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