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| Jul-04-09 | | parisattack: There have been quite a few Repertoire books the past 20 years or so...guessing a couple dozen or more. One of my favorites of the older stock is Golombek's Modern Opening Chess Theory. |
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| Jul-05-09 | | hms123: Although it is not a repertoire book, Suetin's <Modern Chess Opening Theory> has lots of suggestions for what were once sharp lines. Many of them are still playable for the club player. Suetin's suggestions do need to be followed up with some additional research in books or databases. |
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Jul-06-09
 | | Open Defence: I got 5 books today to keep me busy
1) OMGP V - on first glance very interesting, shall read it on the flight back to Delhi 2)The Soviet Championships - Cafferty and Taimanov - this has Crosstables!! Yes Crosstables, look out <suenteus po>, crosstables are coming your way 3) English ...e5 - Everymanchess by Raetsky and Chetverik (not known to me, but the book seems interesting) 4) The Marshall Attack - Bogdan Lalic, I fear the book might be a bit dated, but it would be interesting to compare it to the currentlty played lines 5) Queen's Gambit Accepted - IAKOV and Neishadt |
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Jul-06-09
| | Open Defence: sorry that should be Iakov Neishadt, the book seems a little dated but I like the explanations and you get a feel for the evolution of the QGA, some parts of the book are key to understanding the center, and can be applied to many other openings like Nimzo Indian Rubenstein, Caro Kan Panov Botvinnik, QGD Semi Tarrasch, etc |
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Jul-06-09
 | | Phony Benoni: <Open Defence> I too have the Cafferty/Taimanov book on the Soviet championships. It contains some interesting background information as well as the crosstables. By the way, progress is being made on the USSR Championship collections: Game Collection: USSR Championship Tournament Index |
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Jul-06-09
| | Open Defence: wow!!! |
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| Jul-06-09 | | hms123: <<recommendation from <chancho>>: Reti's Modern Ideas in Chess, and Masters of the Chessboard. <I believe Lawrence Day once said the first book helped him become an expert, while the second book, helped Yasser Seirawan become a master in about 3 years time.> |
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Jul-06-09
| | Open Defence: <OMGP V> well I finished reading the text (the games will take me forever) and one thing I am not too happy about is the number of typos.... the only thing that saves the annecdotes is Tal, GK quotes Tal quite often, and its Tal's humour that seems to drive this book, e.g. something like we gave birth to a good number of novelties and had a few miscarriages |
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Jul-07-09
 | | ChessBookForum: Posted 6/3 at parisattack chessforum keypusher: There are a lot of different ways to be a great annotator, just as there are a lot of ways to be a good writer. <sneaky pete> describes Lasker perfectly. Here is Lasker's book on St. Petersburg 1909. http://books.google.com/books?id=o3... This game is a striking example of his style: Lasker vs S Von Freymann, 1909. I transcribed all his notes.
Von Freyman was a tail-ender at St. Petersburg, but he got the better of Lasker coming out of the opening and soon had White under heavy pressure. He missed the strongest continuation but still won a pawn and seemingly retained an overwhelming position. Lasker, though, managed to complicate the game and, when von Freyman blundered on his 33rd move, escaped into a favorable queen ending, and won it. So, a very dramatic encounter. But in his notes, Lasker lets the reader discover the drama, the shifts of fortune, and the easier variations for himself; Lasker just gives the hardest lines. Tarrasch is the antithesis of Lasker: he writes more words and gives fewer lines. He is very much the pedagogue, seeing every game as an opportunity to instruct the reader in the proper approach to the position. He is also a gifted writer; even with my terrible German I can see how expressive he is. Witty, too. He very much wants to impose a narrative arc on each game, and indeed his own best games seem to have such an arc. It's my impression from http://www.google.com/books?id=0CgC... that he is a good deal less accurate than Lasker, though. Marco was well-known in his own time as an annotator. Like Nimzowitsch after him, he seemed to delight in the role of Tarrasch's foil; many of his notes about Carlsbad 1907 and St. Petersburg 1914 seem to be aimed at Tarrasch's earlier annotations. He is very anti-dogmatic, and always stressing how little is really known. After 7 moves of Nimzowitsch vs Salwe, 1907 he writes: <"Another Spanish, and a Four Knights Game to boot! This boring stuff should be outlawed once and for all!" say the well-informed amateurs. And the chorus of half-wits and chessic illiterates cry out, "Away with theory, start with other opening positions, place the pawns behind the pieces and Kings in the middle of the board -- then let your wisdom be demonstrated!" Such utterances can only arouse sympathy in the masters, for they know that so-called theory is merely a tiny island in the immeasurable ocean of our ignorance.> Also, like Bronstein writing about Zurich 1953, Marco recognizes that everyone at an international tournament -- the Ollands, Cohns and Johners as well as the Rubinsteins and Maroczys -- has something of interest to contribute. |
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| Jul-07-09 | | parisattack: <Keypusher - ...Tarrasch is the antithesis of Lasker: he writes more words and gives fewer lines. He is very much the pedagogue, seeing every game as an opportunity to instruct the reader in the proper approach to the position.> All-in-all a good discussion of annotators. I suppose its a matter of what one enjoys the most; also whether one is looking for entertainment/instruction or a mix. Something to be said for all flavors! I lean towards instruction - I most enjoy feeling (whether rightly or not) I have some insight into the game. Botvinnik does this best for me; also Keres, Reshevsky, Gligoric. Fine and Tarrasch are excellent although I find them a bit pedantic and self-righteous. Bronstein and Tal offer a happy medium...Bronstein's Struggle and Tal's Life and Games wonderful reads. |
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| Jul-08-09 | | blacksburg: <4) The Marshall Attack - Bogdan Lalic, I fear the book might be a bit dated, but it would be interesting to compare it to the currentlty played lines> there is apparently a new book on the Marshall Attack out, by Milos Pavlovic. "Marshall Attack" is not in the title, though, it is called "Fighting the Ruy Lopez", and also covers anti-marshalls and early deviations for white after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6, including exchange variation. i do not have this book, but i would be eager to read anyone's opinion on it, as i have always wanted a book on the Marshall, and i have not heard good things about Lalic's book. of course, if <OD> likes the Lalic book, i would love to hear her opinion. :) anyone else know a good book on the Marshall? i'd like to try to play it as black, but i'm too much of a patzer to waltz into that thing without someone holding my hand. |
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| Jul-09-09 | | timhortons: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/im... nakamura bullet chess book. |
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Jul-12-09
| | Open Defence: <English ...e5 - Everymanchess by Raetsky and Chetverik> a bit dated and some incorrect assessments of critical lines.. but still very useful, any book on the English that does not explain the strategic concepts involved will do its readers a disservice and thats the main problem here, in some key lines all you get are variations with little or no explanation as to why either side stands better or why the position is assessed as even, an important part of any book on an opening system is to give the reader an idea as to how to continue from the end of the given variation. This is an area in which many books on the opening seem to be falling short. |
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| Jul-12-09 | | parisattack: Quite a few books on the English. Just some of them: Play the English - Pritchett
English ...e5 - Raetsky/Chetberik
Winning with the English - Ribli/Kallai
English Opening - Cafferty
How to Play the English Opening - Povah
The Gambit Guide to the English Opening 1. ...e5 - Hansen (probably my favorite on 1. ...e5) The Dynamic English - Kosten
Chess Explained The English Opening - Franco
English Opening: Classical and Indian -Bagirov
English Opening - Symmetrical - Bagirov
Anglo Benoni Foru Knights - Janicki
Anglo Benoni Two Knights - Janicki
English Foour Knights - Povah
Symmmetrical English - Cummings
The Symmetrical English - Hansen
The Hedgehog = Suba
Theory of the English-Bremer - Vornkov/Schatskes
Flohr-Mikenas English - Janici/Konikowsky
Developments in the English - Kuligowski
500 English Miniatures - Wall
How to Play the English Opening - Karpov
English - Watson (4 Volumes)
Englisch-Bremer Partie - Schwarz
Winning with 1. c4 - Soltis
Can others add to this list? |
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Jul-12-09
| | Phony Benoni: Perhaps Flank Openings - Raymond Keene could be added. It covers much more than the English, but the lines are all related. My impression is that older books on the English would hold up well if they concentrated on specific structures and plans, especially in the quieter, less critical variations. |
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Jul-12-09
| | Open Defence: even if the analysis is out dated, if the book explains the strategic concept and why some continuations are currently considered inferior, the reader can compare the book against current GM games or an engine book and find out for themselves how theory has progressed. I learn a lot from well written books evem if their analysis is out dated, as long as they explain the concepts for example most old books on the Grunfeld Exchange would probably tell you that the 7.Nf3 variation is bad since it allows a pin on the KN, but a study of master games shows us how this line came to be popular |
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| Jul-12-09 | | hms123: John Watson's <Mastering the chess openings, Vol.3> focuses almost entirely on the English Opening. |
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| Jul-12-09 | | parisattack: Thanks <hms123> and <Open Defence> - Not sure how I missed Flank Openings, perhaps because I have the four editions at the front of all the hypermodern opening books! I haven't seen that Watson series, guess I will need to stock them in soon. There is also Carl Carls Bremen System - but I mostly want to compile an English language list right now. There were several of the little Trends booklets on the English as well as multiple versions of the Soltis book. I loved the English but just don't have the delicate touch to make it work for me. |
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| Jul-12-09 | | hms123: <parisattack> I have all three volumes of Watson's <Mastering the chess openings> and really enjoy them, even though I am not that intersted in many of the openings. I think they are well worth having. Of course, I am good at spending other people's money (as well as my own). |
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| Jul-13-09 | | parisattack: <Open Defence: even if the analysis is out dated, if the book explains the strategic concept and why some continuations are currently considered inferior, the reader can compare the book against current GM games or an engine book and find out for themselves how theory has progressed.> Yes, good approach!
There are some nuggets in the 'inferior' lines I am sure. Lots of little side-paths in the Watson volumes. I've enjoyed comparing how different players essay the English - Staunton, Reti, Botvinnik, Flohr, Stein, Tal... |
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| Jul-29-09 | | just a kid: I found a really cool site
http://www.worldcat.org/
Now I can see if they're any chess books in my local libraries anywhere!Considering I can't really buy them. Heh. |
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| Jul-29-09 | | just a kid: If I'm correct,Karpov wrote a book on the english opening... |
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| Jul-29-09 | | whiskeyrebel: Yeah, Karpov's book looks at 35 or so games as opposed to being a text in the more ordinary sense. I love it. |
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| Jul-29-09 | | hms123: <just a kid> <whiskey rebel> I have a collection of all the games in Karpov's book on the English here: Game Collection: Karpov How to play the English Opening. There are 30 games. |
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Jul-29-09
| | Phony Benoni: <just a kid> Ah, Worldcat. That's something I know a little bit about, having worked with it since the 1970s. If you find a mistake there, let me know; I might be able to fix it. Just wish I could catalog more of the chess books. |
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