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| Feb-03-11 | | pulsar: <TheFocus> Thanks. And I love this advice: <Go out and buy this book. Buy two - one for yourself, the other for a friend or your local library.> You'll never go wrong with that. :) |
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| Feb-04-11 | | TheFocus: Coming Monday!!
<TheFocus> puts his focus on Brady's <Endgame> and points out any mistakes or omissions he finds. Be there! Same <Focus> time, same <Focus> channel. Aloha! And Shalom! |
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| Feb-11-11 | | hms123: <ENDGAME
Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness>
By Frank Brady
Review from the New York TImes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/b... |
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Feb-21-11
 | | ChessBookForum: Here are a few Chess History suggestions:
1. Al Horowitz <From Morphy to Fischer - a History of the World Chess Championship> http://www.amazon.com/Morphy-Fische... This volume includes behind the scenes historical details about how every world championship match was arranged- and played. Quite a shocking story in many respects. ######################
2. Gligoric and Wade <The World Chess Championship> http://www.amazon.com/World-Chess-C... Covers the years from 1948 to 1969- really in depth history of the personalities of the players, and how those personalities translated over the board in unique "chess styles." This book is a must have IMO. #########################
3. Kotov and Yudovich <The Soviet School of Chess> http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-School... This is an invaluable document, detailing the history of the "Soviet Chess School," how it worked, and what impact it had on the evolution of style in chess. #############################
4. Mikhail Tal <Tal-Botvinnik 1960> http://www.amazon.com/Tal-Botvinnik... Fascinating first hand account by Mikhail Tal about how he and his trainer Alexander Koblents analyzed the games, style, and especially opening repertoire of Botvinnik in order to beat him. #############################
5. Nikolai Krogius <Psychology in Chess> http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Ch... The first chapter of this book provides an intriguing theory about how the personalities of various champions influenced their over the board style. ###########################
6. Max Euwe <Meet the Masters> http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Masters-... Invaluable insight into the personality and chess styles of Alekhine, Capablanca, Flohr, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Fine, Keres, and Euwe. |
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| Feb-21-11 | | wordfunph: <ChessBookForum> here's my share.. I was fortunate to have a rare bantam copy of "The New King Anatoly Karpov - The Road to the World Chess Championship" by Robert Byrne for only $2. the book covered 24/29 annotated games from quarterfinals to finals by such players like Petrosian, Portisch, Polu, Korchnoi, Mecking, Spassky, Byrne and Tolya. Karpov blanked Polu 3-0, 4-1 against Boris, and eventually winning the world crown 3-2 against Korchnoi in 1974. book cover:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordfu...
indeed a treasure book to relish by our grand grandchildren.. :) |
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Feb-21-11
 | | Penguincw: < ChessBookForum: Hello <Penguin>.
That better not be s picture of a "Penguin Burger".
You don't want to get in trouble with Animal Rights Activists. > No it's not.Is there even such thing as a < Penguin Burger > ? |
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Feb-22-11
 | | WTHarvey: Review of "The Gambit Files: Tactical Themes to Sharpen Your Play" by Bill Harvey Rather than present the chessplayer with numerous lines of play to memorize, this book examines the characteristic keys and traps to a wide range of openings. There are 237 puzzles to illustrate hundreds of insights in recurring themes and tactics in 15 chess gambits. Chapters in this volume: Ruy Lopez: Gajewski Gambit; Scotch Gambit; Cochrane Gambit; Rosentreter Gambit; Wing Gambit; Grand Prix Attack: Tal Gambit; French Advance, Milner-Barry Attack; Caro-Kann: Fantasy Variation Gambit; Scandinavian, Portuguese Variation; Winawer Countergambit; Geller Gambit; Albin Countergambit; Blumenfeld Gambit; Queen's Indian, Polugaevsky Variation & Lisitsin Gambit. It's available at MongoosePress.com
The author is the webmaster of a collection of 10,000 chess puzzles at http://www.wtharvey.com and has posted hundreds of times at chessgames.com |
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Mar-09-11
 | | FSR: <wordfunph> I bought Byrne's book on the Karpov et al. Candidates matches when it came out. Sometime in the 1990s one of my cats peed on it, so I had to throw it out. A few years ago, I secured another copy through eBay for about $5. I submitted a search and had eBay e-mail me any results for a year. The book eventually popped up (oddly from two different sellers at the same time) and I bought one. Fortunately there's very little demand for it so one can get it cheap. |
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Mar-09-11
| | FSR: I have a little review of Nunn's excellent new book "1001 Deadly Checkmates" at http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/20... |
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Mar-09-11
| | FSR: Incidentally, I was surprised to see that my review of Nunn's book is quoted on the Gambit Books website. (No, I didn't get money or even a free book out of it.) http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/10... |
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Mar-09-11
 | | DrNyet: Thank you <Fusilli> for your Review of <Andrew Soltis, “Grandmaster Secrets: Endings.”> I've always enjoyed browsing this book and never found the Q&A format or the quotes annoying. No quibbles otherwise, and this is so true: <"What I am trying to say is that what you take out of a book depends a lot on you and not just on the author of the book."> |
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| Mar-10-11 | | MaxxLange: Can I review chess DVDs here, as well as books? |
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Mar-10-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <MaxxLange: Winner of the inaugural "Best Kibbutzer" award in ChessBookForum> Yes of course you may review DVDs here.
I am a moderator at this forum so you have official permission. If the other moderator, <hms123>, objects, I will enlist the services of my lawyer, <hms123>, to resolve the issue in your favor. Seriously I have posted many reviews of chess videos in here. You may also review chess blogs, websites, articles, you name it. Best regards,
JFQ |
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| Mar-10-11 | | hms123: <jess> I have overruled myself in favor of your ruling. How could I do otherwise? <Maxx>--have at it. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | pulsar: I'm currently reading Elias Canneti's novel Auto-da-Fe. <nanobrain> already wrote about the eerily prophetic content of the book: Robert James Fischer <nanobrain: Among the characters in Elias Canetti's only novel AUTO-DA-FE is a hunchback Jewish dwarf named "Fischerle." He's the chess champion of a club where his wife works as a prostitute. A chess addict/fanatic, he has long arms and has total recall of the moves of the games he has studied. He fantasizes about becoming world chess champion, changing his name to "FISCHER", going to America, becoming "chess champion of the world in America," building a palace with real castles, knights and pawns. He is indifferent to women and treats his wife only as a source of livelihood.
The only American world chess champion, Robert J. Fischer (Bobby Fischer) was born on 9 March 1943, likewise with long arms. He himself had said that all he ever wanted to do is to play chess. Like the fictional Fischerle, he was also Jewish and had a total recall of the games he has played or studied. He once said he wanted to build a house in the shape of a rook. He was also indifferent to women, having reportedly married a Japanese chess champion late in his life only for practical reasons.AUTO-DA-FE was first published (in German) as "Die Blendung" ("The Blinding") in 1935--eight years BEFORE Bobby Fischer was born. That was also before Hitler's ascent to power in Germany and before the Nazis' crematoria, gas chambers and the Holocaust. Elias Canetti, however, had likewise written in this book: "We stand, only too evidently, on the verge of catastrophe....our creeping corruption is this lack of piety with which men are infected; this is the poison by which we all shall perish. Woe to those who shall come after us! They are lost, they will inherit from us a million martyrs and the instruments of torture with which they must destroy a second million. No state can bear so many saints...." Elias Canetti, soothsayer and the 1981 Nobel Prize winner, take a bow!> |
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| Mar-11-11 | | SirChrislov: A review for Christian Bauer's Play the Scandinavian would be welcomed.
Any earth-shattering revelations?
Thanks. |
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Mar-21-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: REPOST
<Wayne Proudlove:> Has anyone read "Chess on The Edge: The Collected Games of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles" and can they recommend it? |
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Mar-22-11
 | | Domdaniel: < Has anyone read "Chess on The Edge: The Collected Games of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles" and can they recommend it?> <mack> has; <mack> can. I think he might put it a tad more strongly than that, actually. But yes. |
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| Mar-26-11 | | SamAtoms1980: Hey,
I've been working on a set of collections based on 5 of my books, they're done now. I don't think any of these books are currently in your database. They are:
Game Collection: Attack & Counterattack in Chess by I. A. Horowitz & Reinfeld Game Collection: How To Think Ahead in Chess by I. A. Horowitz & Reinfeld Game Collection: Chess Traps, Pitfalls & Swindles by I. A. Horowitz & Reinfeld Game Collection: The Art of Positional Play by Samuel Reshevsky Game Collection: Grandmasters of Chess by Harold C. Schonberg |
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| Mar-26-11 | | TheFocus: <SamAtoms1980> That is some good work. Thanks for doing it. |
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| Mar-27-11 | | wordfunph: coming soon..
Capablanca - A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illlustrations and Other Rare Archival Materials on the Cuban Genius Jose Capablanca, 1888-194 by
Edward Winter..
http://www.amazon.com/Capablanca-Co... |
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| Mar-28-11 | | TheFocus: <wordfunph> My favorite Capablanca book!! |
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| Mar-28-11 | | VladimirOo: Has ever "Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" been printed in russian ? Under what title exactly and by which publisher? Same question for "My 60 memorable games" by Fischer and "50 games" by Larsen. Thank you! |
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| Mar-28-11 | | TheFocus: <VladimirOo>
All three are available in Russian.
You can usually find Fischer's book on eBay.
For any of these, you might look through the on-line catalog of Dale Brandreth: http://www.chessbookstore.com/ |
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| Apr-01-11 | | VladimirOo: Thank you, but can you give the title in russian, that would help to search ? |
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