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| Oct-18-10 | | hms123: <jess> I love that game. I just watched the video and couldn't help but laugh along with <kingscrusher>. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | Sho: Wow, thanks for the feedback. Dozens of titles have been suggested, as most of you have probably seen. I will ask for these books, in order of importance:
1. Chess for Juniors: A Complete Guide for the Beginner by Robert Snyder
2. Winning Chess Strategy For Kids by Jeff Coakley
3. Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan
4. Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan
5. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess by David Shenk
6. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chess, Third Edition by Patrick Wolff
7. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps by Pandolfini
8. Winning Chess Exercises for Kids by Jeff Coakley
9. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chess Openings William Aramil
10. How to Beat Your Dad at Chess Murray Chandler
11. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Bronstein
If you have strong opinions for or against a title, or for adding title, please let me know. I'll wait a week. (Book orders are not due for a while.) Before posting, I had my own suggestions (the Seirawan series and Idiot's Guide). I'm glad I posted; I've seen but am unfamiliar with the other titles. I teach. I share my own books with my students, but that's not the same as kids having their own library. Sho is my son--an always available username; he's four. I'll get him Snyder's Chess for Juniors. Our school's budget is meager. I will get as many books as I can, and I'll get more books with next year's budget. Thanks for help. And I will keep checking the suggestions. Doug DeGroot
DLDeGroot@hartley-ms.k12.ia.us |
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| Oct-18-10 | | wordfunph: <Sho> i think your list is too much of "Winning Chess...", maybe you would consider inserting Bobby's My 60 and Evans' This Crazy World of Chess to make their reading interesting and vibrant. Good luck.. |
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Oct-19-10
 | | LIFE Master AJ: I think I made a mistake in my earlier post.
I think the "Winning Chess" series by Yasser Seirawan is five volumes, not seven. |
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Oct-19-10
| | LIFE Master AJ: Here is my Amazon.com profile.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profil... My 13 books for any chess player:
http://www.amazon.com/lm/1SU3206OC4... |
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Oct-27-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <AJ>- thanks for your review of <Nimzowitsch's> Book of the great <Karlsbad 1929> tournament: http://www.amazon.com/Carlsbad-Inte... I ended up purchasing this volume and heartily agree it is a gem. How wonderfully direct <Nimzowitsch> is in his writing. This book makes a good "sandwich" with the news coverage <Alexander Aljechin> provided for this important tournament. |
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Oct-27-10
 | | kingscrusher: I find myself laughing quite a lot reading "Bobby Fischer Goes to war". It does seem the entire soviet machine was systematically taken apart by Fischer after all, includes Kotov's "Think like a Grandmaster" idealogies, because they didn't seem to help Taimanov when he was assigned as his chief helper - and then losing to Fischer 6-0. |
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Oct-27-10
| | kingscrusher: I have now the Carlsbad 1929 book, and am just checking Nimzo's win vs Gilg. It seems Nimzo missed opportunities like Nc4, and said of himself that he was a bit too dogmatic in "overprotecting" his Kingside. He is very funny in his comments. I think the undermining of f6 demonstrates that he doesn't mind gettinng a vicious kingside attack even it means undermining a pawn chain at the head rather than base. Although he did mention that the weakened e-pawn made is f-file work harder. I am preparing for a video annotation of this game. |
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Oct-27-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: I also loved <Bobby Fischer Goes to War>. Have you checked out <Russians vs. Fischer>? It's outstanding, featuring many, many formerly "top secret" Russian GMs with their "dossiers" on how to beat Bobby. |
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Oct-27-10
| | kingscrusher: Hi Jessica
I might get that book sometime from Amazon - thanks. |
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Oct-27-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Kingscrusher> lol <Nimzo> and his style of commentary in <Karlsbad 1929>- My favorite part is where he announces, with considerable glee, that <Capablanca> is starting to play in <Nimzo's> new style- which he calls "Neo-Romantic" as you know: <Capablanca's game with me, for example, fairly brims with neo-Romanticism!> |
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Oct-27-10
| | kingscrusher: I have video annotated Nimzo's win vs Gilg at Karlsbad 1929: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrOo... |
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| Oct-27-10 | | VladimirOo: Hi, anyone know how one can find Geller's works on the King's Indian Defense? They are published nowhere, and there isn't a single trace on Amazon etc. It is completely outdated so that no publisher would bother about this book (or any copy, if i dare say so). Any clue for a Geller aficionado? |
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| Oct-27-10 | | hms123: <VladimirOo>
http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-... http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-... |
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Oct-27-10
| | LIFE Master AJ: <Oct-27-10
jessicafischerqueen: I also loved <Bobby Fischer Goes to War>.
Have you checked out <Russians vs. Fischer>?It's outstanding, featuring many, many formerly "top secret" Russian GMs with their "dossiers" on how to beat Bobby.> I am pretty sure that I have that book. |
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| Oct-27-10 | | therealbenjinathan: <VladimirOo>
There are a bunch on bookfinder dot com too. |
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| Oct-27-10 | | VladimirOo: Looks like i am an idiot ;), thanks all! |
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| Oct-28-10 | | Eyal: On <Yasser Seirawan / Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions>: <In the past few weeks, I’ve received truckloads of great new chess books, but I haven’t been able to give them the attention they deserve because I was absolutely thrilled by Yasser Seirawan’s new book <Chess Duels>. I don’t like to exaggerate, but this may well be the most fascinating chess book I’ve ever read.Superficially, <Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions>, published by Everyman Chess, seems to be about Seirawan’s games in which he faced Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. But the book is so much more. It’s a treasure trove of modern chess history, written in crisp prose and full of delightful anecdotes, political opinions and revelations and, last but not least, extremely enthusiastically annotated high-quality chess games.> (http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/r...) A couple of anecdotes mentioned in this review:
<He describes how, in their Barcelona 1989 game, Spassky committed a “wonderfully blatant rule violation” and, after Seirawan had made his first move, spoke to him during the game: “Yasser, why do you torture me with this Caro-Kann business?”> Spassky vs Seirawan, 1989
<Watching Garry at that particular post-mortem in Niksic gave me the same feeling as watching Michael Jordan and Bruce Lee at the top of their game. Garry showed ten and twelve-move variations effortlessly and easily. Boris [Spassky] was reduced to comments like, “Yes. Of course.” “Yes, very interesting.” “Yes. Of course.” And Boris won the game! I’ve often said that if I had a video tape of that 20-minute post-mortem, it would sell forever. It was simply amazing watching Garry show what he had analyzed. This was not some well-trained schoolboy. This was a calculating machine without peer. Ljubo, Jan [Timman] and I had a 15-minute walk back to our hotel. We were so dumbfounded by what we witnessed that hardly a single word was exchanged. For those who know Ljubo, this is quite impressive. We could hardly believe what we saw. It was sublime. Jaw-dropping.> Kasparov vs Spassky, 1983 |
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| Oct-28-10 | | hms123: <Eyal> I have to agree with your comments on <Chess Duels>. It is a fascinating book and hard to put down. I like the way it is organized by chapters on Seirawan's opponents. |
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| Oct-28-10 | | Eyal: <hms> Yeah, I see that you also compiled a game collection for this book: Game Collection: Chess Duels by Seirawan But just to make clear: those are not <my> comments on the book – I’m just quoting <Arne Moll>, the chessvibes reviewer… |
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| Oct-28-10 | | hms123: <Eyal> Aha! So they are. Still, the book is quite good. |
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| Oct-28-10 | | achieve: <Quite funny>! - heh - <Eyal> is not <quite> the type to highlight his <own> comments. ;) I admit to having done <it> myself though, but only for special occasions, like X-mas time and new year's, in an attempt to <celebrate online>... Who was I kidding, right? Btw - Sooo recognizable to read Seirawan's recollections of Kasparov's genius, drive and memory; I was privileged to be living in Amsterdam and easily hop over to watch GK's postgame analysis romps, as he was an annual invitee at the "famous" double round robin invitationals. Class of his own, and they all knew it, but tried all kinds of things to repress and deal with that, as Seirawan points out brilliantly (Ljubo, heh)... But OTB -- it's man to man, brain to brain, psyche to psyche, combat! PS. <hms> Impressive gamecollection; just now checked it out pretty much for the first time. xD |
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| Oct-28-10 | | hms123: <niels> Thanks for the story and for the compliment on the game collections. They are a lot more work than I realized, but they help me organize my chess study (because I can download the games from a given book and then follow along with the commentary much more easily). Once I collected the games for myself, it was obvious that others would find them useful. |
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| Oct-28-10 | | achieve: <h> Yes, very useful when studying, and I'll certainly use it in the near future, since I have hundreds of chessbooks on my HDD, including the Steve Mayer BvN example games you collected. Winter is almost upon us and the days grow shorter, colder... Study-time.. |
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| Oct-29-10 | | cormier: this is the first diagram position from Alfonso Romero book Creative Chess Strategy chapter 16. Knowledge of positions
click for larger view
25? white is winning and mist the best move Szabo vs Geller, 1953 have fun ... till later .... i will try to explain(share) this important chapter from time to time ..... tks |
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