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| Sep-10-11 | | hms123: <I Play the Fred>
What about using a real game that is relatively obscure? Besides, if the story is interesting enough, and the game is woven in well enough, I don't think anyone would be too concerned. Write on! |
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| Sep-11-11 | | TheFocus: <I Play the Fred> The story <Last Round> used a real Charousek game in it. You might like to read it. Love your idea, also. I thought about trying that sometime. Too busy with the biographies for now. Best chess novel I can recall is <Queen's Gambit> by Walter Tevis. |
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Sep-13-11
 | | FSR: <I play the Fred> Many great games are not well known. For example, F Parr vs G Wheatcroft, 1938 and Gonzalez vs Perrine, 1943. Hell, even K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992 and F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996 aren't half bad. |
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Sep-13-11
| | FSR: Allies vs Blackburne, 1901 is also fun. |
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| Sep-14-11 | | wordfunph: <I play the Fred> just to share chess story books.. + Los Voraces 2019 by Andy Soltis
http://www.amazon.com/Los-Voraces-2... + The Chess Master by Stephen Peeples
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Master-... + Mad Queen's Chess by Joseph Sweeney
http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Queens-Ch... how 'bout featuring your best game ever, to stir interest from your readers. Good luck. |
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| Sep-14-11 | | wordfunph: chesscafe.com's "Books, Books, and More Books" by Bruce Pandolfini.. http://www.chesscafe.com/fromarchiv... |
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| Sep-14-11 | | hms123: <wordfunph>
That is a terrific article. Thanks for posting it. |
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| Sep-17-11 | | srgntshultz: <I play the Fred> Have you tried working a small group of moves first. For example find an interesting mate position and work back six or seven moves. Then create the story moving foward from the beginning position. It's enough chess for aficianados and plenty of room for creative writing. Good luck. |
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| Sep-17-11 | | Pyke: <srgntshultz> I think your idea is a very good one and would work out perfectly, except for one "minor" flaw: I think this has been done before, in one of the Harry Potter movies: Here's a link to Jeremy Silman's webpage, where he talks about the chess position and the scene: http://www.jeremysilman.com/movies_... |
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| Sep-18-11 | | wordfunph: sir <hms123> welcome.. guys, those interested to bid for 15 chess books..
http://cgi.ebay.ph/Lot-15-Chess-Boo... good luck.. |
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| Sep-19-11 | | parisattack: David Delucia will be publishing a new A Few Old Friends in November. This is a 2v set and a substantial expansion over the 2nd edition. I don't know the print run but I am sure it is small. And, knowing the three previous Delucia volumes - production values will be top-notch. Receipts will go to charity (I am told) and a few dealers are accepting advanced orders. Set runs $1000.00  depending on your source. |
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| Sep-25-11 | | wordfunph: Bobby Ang's Chess Piece --- Five Books
http://www.bworldonline.com/content... |
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| Sep-26-11 | | parisattack: <wordfunph: Bobby Ang's Chess Piece --- Five Books
http://www.bworldonline.com/content>...
It would be difficult to argue with most of those. Of course it depends on whether 'enjoyment' or 'education' is the higher criteria. IMHO, Reti's books are like Chernev's - enjoyable but not particularly educational. Tal's and Bronstein's to my mind are both. |
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Sep-29-11
 | | Check It Out: Seattle Public Library just had a 250,000 book sell-off and I was the first one to pilfer the chess books. Here's what I got for $1 per book. Any gems?? Irving Chernev:
An invitation to chess: A picture guide to the royal game Max Euwe:
Judgment and planning in chess
Reuben Fine:
Basic chess endings
IA Horowitz:
How to win in the chess openings
Daniel King:
How good is your chess?
Walter Korn:
MCO 12
Emaneul Lasker:
How to play chess
Bruce Pandolfini:
Chess openings: traps and zaps
Fred Reinfeld:
How to be a Winner at Chess
Beginner's guide to winning chess
The complete book of chess tactics
Complete book of ches strategems
Why you lose at chess
101 chess puzzles (edited by F. Reinfeld)
Yasser Seirawan:
Winning chess tactics
David Shenk:
The immortal game: a history of chess
Jeremy Silman:
Reassess your chess
Andrew Soltis:
The inner game of chess
Chris Ward:
It's your move
Sunil Weeramantry & AEd Eusebi:
Best lessons of a chess coach
Fred Wilson:
101 questions on how to play chess
303 tactical chess puzzles |
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| Sep-29-11 | | hms123: <Check It Out>
These two are winners:
Max Euwe:
Judgment and planning in chess
Reuben Fine:
Basic chess endings
especially Fine's book.
Some of the others are well worth a dollar (Seirawan, Chernev), and there may be some hidden gems in there. Lucky you. |
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| Sep-29-11 | | I play the Fred: <Reassess Your Chess> and <Winning Chess Tactics> are huge values at $1.00; <Inner Game of Chess> is superb and would have been a steal at $10. |
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| Sep-29-11 | | wordfunph: <CIO> Walter Korn's MCO 12 is a good one. http://www.amazon.com/MCO-12-Modern... thanks for sharing.. |
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| Sep-29-11 | | Shams: I agree with <Fred> (this has been happening too much lately), the Soltis and Silman books are just steals. <Pawn Structure Chess> is my favorite Silman book, but <Inner Game> is also very good. |
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Sep-29-11
| | Check It Out: Thanks for the feedback, guys! Now, if I get off my lazy duff maybe I can actually learn something and beat <Shams> one of these days. ;) |
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| Sep-29-11 | | Shams: <wordfunph> Fifteen years ago as a newbie I got my hands on, I think, MCO 9. I still remember Walter Korn's words on the French Defense: <French players are a breed apart: they are willing to submit to cramp and countless indignities to reach an endgame where the pawn structure favors black.> That's the opening in a nutshell, ain't it. |
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| Sep-29-11 | | Shams: <Check It Out> What we both need to do is find some non-woodpushers and beat them! |
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Sep-29-11
| | Check It Out: <Shams> I'm daily beating up on the 8 year olds at the dojo - they think I'm the second coming of Capablanca! When I tried to tell them it's all relative they looked at me like I was crazy. |
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| Sep-29-11 | | Shams: <they think I'm the second coming of Capablanca!> But that's absurd. Capa was very handsome. :) |
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| Oct-02-11 | | JuliusDS: Has anyone heard anything about this new book:
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Magn... I can find next to no info about it which surprised me. I'd have thought it being only the second book released on who has arguably been the biggest chess phenomenon of the last several decades would have caused at least some publicity. |
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Oct-04-11
 | | kamalakanta: This is in the real of wishful thinking...but given that Nezhmetdinov was a great player, I wish someone could re-publish his book: http://tinyurl.com/3buyfzp
so that mere mortals like me could have it for less than $145.00 Who owns the rights to this book? It would sell like hot cakes! Or am I missing something here? |
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