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| Oct-10-10 | | MaxxLange: I need to buy the Benko/Silman book: it is a beautiful, fat, well-made hardback, about the "King of the Swisses" and great endgame theorist |
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| Oct-11-10 | | wordfunph: <Russian Grandmasters: The only hints we usually get of the personality are <untrue> "anecdotes" that are passed down from generation to generation, anecdotes that are unsourced and totally unreliable.> try this one..
Chess Stories Through The Ages by Donald L. Boone
http://astore.amazon.com/wwwoffthew... |
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| Oct-11-10 | | Russian Grandmasters: Well you see that book looks fun, and so long as it's not meant as history, I bet it would be fun too. However, if you read a book like that and then see the fables turning up on Wikipedia, this causes a giant problem. It would be equivalent to the tales of Robin Hood's duel with Friar Tuck going up on the <History of Britain> Wiki alongside the Battle of El Alamein. Also, I find that often the actual true story is eminently more interesting, and often even more wacky, than the cherished, and generally made up, fable. |
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| Oct-11-10 | | Russian Grandmasters: "...we love chess, but do we also love history?"
--Chess historian Tomasz Lissowski |
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| Oct-12-10 | | Russian Grandmasters: I just bought this book on the recommendation of <Edward Winter>: A biography of Nobel Prize winning physicist <Paul Dirac>, who was also a chess enthusiast http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04... Has anyone read it? I won't get it delivered for a few months yet because I live in Korea. Far, far away. |
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Oct-12-10
 | | LIFE Master AJ: My page on the best chess books ...
http://www.ajschess.com/lifemastera...
The starting page for a few of my book reviews ...
http://www.ajschess.com/lifemastera...
See all my reviews on Amazon ...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member.... |
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| Oct-12-10 | | TheFocus: <jess> I think you will enjoy the Denker book. Denker was like a virtual library of some of the older players. Some wonderful anecdotes. A fascinating read. |
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| Oct-13-10 | | crawfb5: David Lawson's classic <Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess> has been reissued as a paperback. I just got my copy from Amazon today. Actually it <has> been edited some. Based on the comments in the editor's introduction, some errata were fixed, some light grammatical editing, and so forth. The two biggest changes seem to be 1) pictures were moved to two picture sections, with some being dropped and others added, and 2) the games section with 60 games was dropped entirely. There are other, better, more complete sources of Morphy games anyway, one being Shibut's <Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory>. Shibut includes <all> the Morphy games he could find and analyzes these 40 in full or part: Game Collection: Shibut's Morphy games For any insomniacs out there, I did a long review of Shibut's and Beim's Morphy books in this forum back in May of 2009. For those of you who've wanted Lawson's bio of Morphy but could never find an affordable copy, this $20 paperback could be just the thing. |
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Oct-13-10
 | | wwall: Lawson's new book, edited by Thomas Aielllo, also has an interesting section on Lawson (he wrote the original book after 38 years and was 89 when first published in 1976) and an annotated bibliography of books since Lawson. The new book has some original pictures gone, but added some new pictures and images. I believe I have already seen the book as low as $13 at some sites. There are 398 pages to the new edition. The original 1976 book is over $100 that I've seen. |
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Oct-15-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <TheFocus> very glad to hear of your enthusiasm for the <Denker> volume, especially since it's just arrived at my Mom's address in Canada. Now I have to wait for her to mail it to me here in Korea... |
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| Oct-16-10 | | Sho: I want to order a few books for our middle school library, any suggestions? Currently, our library has no books on chess.
Respond here or email me: dldegroot@hartley-ms.k12.ia.us Thanks |
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Oct-16-10
 | | Open Defence: perhaps you could look at the following:
the books by Yasser Seirawan
Winning Chess Openings
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... Winning Chess Tactics
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... Winning Chess Strategies
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... Winning Chess Endings
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... Winning Chess Combinations
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... for the player who plays chess regularly (especially club players) I suggest Ray Cheng's Practical Chess Exercises
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Che... Silman's Endgame Course
http://www.amazon.com/Silmans-Compl... and one of the most valuable books of all
Simple Chess by Michael Stean (again for those who already play regularly and are familiar with tactics and combinations but who want to learn about strategy and planning) http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Chess-... hope this helps |
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Oct-16-10
 | | ChessBookForum: <Sho> I've put a call round, but for now I'll drop a few books I have in my own library that might be suitable. ##########################################
<Chess History>
Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy
http://www.amazon.com/Bobby-Fischer... The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Game... The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Artist-... ##############################
<Instructional- Beginner> Competitive Chess for Kids: Winning Strategies Plus 25 Classic Checkmates from an International Grandmaster
http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-C... Abc's of Chess
http://www.amazon.com/Abcs-Chess-Br... ###################################
<Instructional Intermediate> Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master
http://www.amazon.com/Silmans-Compl... Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves from the U.S. Junior Chess Champion
http://www.amazon.com/Attacking-Che... |
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Oct-16-10
| | Open Defence: jinx! I like my sodas to be colas with a dash of dark rum... |
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Oct-16-10
| | Open Defence: oh and even collections of old master games, e.g. Steinitz, Marco, Reti, Lasker, Rubenstein, Capablanca, Alekhine etc they should be in every Library! |
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Oct-16-10
 | | chancho: Logical Chess Move By Move - Irving Chernev
The Game of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch
My System - Aron Nimzowitsch
Masters of the Chessboard - Richard Reti
Winning Chess series - Yasser Seirawan
My 60 Memorable Games - Bobby Fischer
How To Reassess Your Chess - Jeremy Silman
Think Like A Grandmaster - Alexander Kotov |
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Oct-16-10
| | wwall: If I were ordering chess books for middle school, I would want them in algebraic, and a variety. I would order
Modern Chess Openings, 15th edition by de Firmian
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Bronstein
The Quickest Chess Victories of All Time by Burgess
200 Brilliant Endgames by Chernev
Basic Chess Endings, new edition by Fine and Benko
Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd edition by Hooper/Whyld
Diary of a Chess Queen by Kosteniuk
Chess by Polgar
Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps by Pandolfini
Winning Chess Tactics by Seirawan
700 Openings Traps by Wall
USCF Official Rules of Chess
The Immortal Game by Shenk
Whiz Kids Teach Chess by Schiller |
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| Oct-16-10 | | Jim Bartle: Four lists and "Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" has yet to be mentioned? |
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Oct-16-10
| | Open Defence: <JB> are you trying to teach children the 'wrong' way to play chess? :) |
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Oct-16-10
| | chancho: <Jim> I have Tal's book. I plum forgot. :/
It's a good read. |
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Oct-16-10
 | | Phony Benoni: Since this is for middle school students, I assume we're talking kids in their early teens without much experience at chess. For that reason, unless they're an exceedingly gifted bunch I'd suggest holding off on Nimzowitsch and Kotov for now, as well as reference works like MCO, Basic Chess Endings, and the Oxford Encyclopedia. The Bronstein and Tal would also be difficult, but at least they would be inspirational as well. Lots of tactics, simple openings and strategy. The Seirawan books are quite good. And, for now, I would have to agree with <wwall> to go algebraic. Learning chess is difficult enough without having to learn a second language as well. |
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| Oct-16-10 | | TheFocus: The only ones I would add are:
Chess Fundamentals - Capablanca
A Primer of Chess - Capablanca
Last Lectures - Capablanca
My Chess Career - Capablanca
Manual of Chess - Lasker
Common Sense in Chess - Lasker
Anything by Lev Alburt. (His complete series is fantastic. Workbook style set-up; progession emphasized.) The Complete Chess Course - Reinfeld (Just a good old classic. One of Reinfeld's best.) Modern Chess Openings (latest edition)
Great recommendations, everybody. |
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Oct-16-10
| | chancho: Descriptive notation is not that hard.
I had a harder time learning Forsyth notation.
Maybe it's just me ;-)
Chess literature is mostly in algebraic now, so learning descriptive is not necessary.
(unless someone is interested in getting their hands on old cheap books.) |
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| Oct-16-10 | | crawfb5: As I told Jess elsewhere, I don't really have specific recommendations, but I would like to second <PB's> suggestion of not getting anything too advanced. You not only want the library to <have> some chess books, but also for some of the kids to actually <read> them. |
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| Oct-16-10 | | jmi: I'm surprised no one has mentioned:
Simple Chess - Michael Stean
Understanding Chess Move By Move - John Nunn
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