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Dec-31-11
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| Jan-05-12 | | parisattack: I just finished a read of the newest Chess Secrets volume - Giants of Innovation (Pritchett). This is the fifth in the series after Giants of Strategy (McDonald), Giants of Power Play (McDonald), Great Attackers (Crouch) and Heroes of Classical Chess (Pritchett). This book was so well-written, interesting and informative I did a read sans chess set! Each player (Steinitz, Lasker, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Ivanchuk) is covered in wonderful historical/narrative style. One doesn't normally think of a chess book as a 'page turner' but this one is just that, IMHO. As a bonus some opening variations are covered in great detail - again with an historic slant - such as the French Winawer and Dutch (old ...Be7) Stonewall for Botvinnik. Fun, fun read, excellent annotations, informative, lots of diagrams. Its truely one of the best chess books I have ever read. Five Stars. (I was wondering about the selection of 'Innovators' until it dawned on me we will probably see a Heroes of Hypermodernism soon with perhaps Nimzovitch, Reti, Breyer, Larsen, Keene.) |
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| Jan-05-12 | | parisattack: ...And Suttles, of course! :) |
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| Jan-05-12 | | TheFocus: Five Stars! Wow!
I will have to add this collection to my list.
Only bought two things in December. Charousek's Games for $8.50. What a bargain. And a run of Skak, the bulletins for Fischer - Spassky 1972. $150. Another bargain. Haven't got the DeLucia yet, but my fingers are crossed. |
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| Jan-05-12 | | parisattack: The way he weaves together the themes - player history/development, innovation, openings - is really quite remarkable. Honestly <TheFocus> I couldn't put it down. Exceptionally well thought out, documented, written. The only weakling in the series is the Crouch and my understanding is he was quite ill at the time he wrote it. Great deal on Charousek! If you got the complete series Skak that's an awesome price! |
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| Jan-05-12 | | TheFocus: <Great deal on Charousek! If you got the complete series Skak that's an awesome price!> All 23 issues. I saw it at $350 a year ago; and then 6 weeks ago I saw a set at $200, and no one bought it on eBay. A week later, it came up again at $150. I bid and won. Probably one of the best deals I have ever gotten.
The annotations are in English, Russian and Icelandic. |
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| Jan-05-12 | | parisattack: I think I paid $400 for mine and that was some years back! Fischer is looking out for you, me thinks. :) I am still looking for a full run of Australian Chess Review - Purdy's deal before Chess World and the short-lived Check. |
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| Jan-05-12 | | wordfunph: <parisattack> i have three volumes of typewritter-printed Australian Chess Review published in 1970s i guess, will check those copies tonight. my next project - New In Chess magazines, i found some good-priced copies from ebay. |
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| Jan-05-12 | | parisattack: <Wordfunph> I saw the big run of NIC on eBay recently. Glad you got some of them at a good price! One can still snag a chess book bargain on eBay. I got a HB/DJ of Chernev's 1000 Short Games for $8.00 a couple months ago. I treated myself to a couple dozen new books for Christmas...just starting to go through them and will review the Four and Five Stars on this forum over time. So far just the Ulf Andersson and Innovations books qualify. |
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| Jan-06-12 | | parisattack: Lost Book -
Perhaps someone here may assist me. I am trying to locate a book I saw some years ago (need at least the title) which has a chapter on the Double Fianchetto. The chapter included a couple of Leonid Stein's games. I *think* it was a Batsford/Chess Digest book published in the 1980s or so. Unfortunately that is all I remember about it. Ring a bell for anyone? |
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| Jan-07-12 | | wordfunph: <parisattack> any book title keyword? |
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| Jan-07-12 | | wordfunph: <parisattack> checked two 1972-1973 booklets of Chess in Australia, not Australia Chess Review as previously thought.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordfu... |
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| Jan-07-12 | | parisattack: <Wordfunph>
No, that's all I remember of the book. Checked it out from the local library around 1998 and when I went back it had been discarded. Almost sure it was a Batsford/White but just can't find it. Yes, I was thinking you had the little CIA booklets. ACR ran to I think 1942 then Purdy did Check! for a couple years and then the famous Chess World into the 1960s. |
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| Jan-07-12 | | wordfunph: <parisattack> let me try.. + King Fianchetto Defences by Marovic & Susic
http://www.amazon.com/fianchetto-de... + The Double Fianchetto Opening System by Marfia
http://www.amazon.com/double-fianch... |
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| Jan-08-12 | | parisattack: Good tries <Wordfunph> but, alas, not. I'm thinking it may have been a book of middlegame motifs, perhaps? But it annoys me that I cannot find it. :) |
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| Jan-09-12 | | parisattack: The Sniper - Charlie Storey - Everyman 2011.
A short review of this book:
Books on the Robatsch are rare so of course since it has been my favorite defense for 40+ years I had to have it! The book covers 'The Sniper' variation which involves an early ...c5 and the Deferred Sniper with ...d5-> ...c5. The book is very well organized: Variations with White 3. Nc3 (after e4/d4, d4/e4), with White 3. Nf3, with White 3. c3, with White 3. f4, with White 3. c4, and with White 'others.' I should mention the Sniper is related and overlaps with the Pterodactyl Variation of which Eric Schiller has written. I found the Chapters with White 3. c4 and (especially) White 3. f4 the most interesting. Alas, 3. f4 is very rare now; common back in the early days of the Robatsch. But I was surprised to see a game (Svetushkin-Lordechescu) with 3. ... d5 which followed a simul game I played against Bent Larsen in the early 1970s for 10 moves! Storey says I had a 'good advantage' although I felt lucky to draw that game. At that time the only mention of the line 3. ...d5 was a footnote in Euwe's Indian Specialties. Almost always played then was the Old Main Line with ...d6, ....c6. The White 3. c4 chapter offers some nice tries against the Averbakh with 3. ...c5. Most Robatsch players will tell you it is the Averbakh they least like to play against. These lines with ...Nf6 may transpose to a Schmid Benoni, without ...Nf6 to the Larsen-Barcza-Franco-Benoni (depending on your nomenclature and also an emotional favorite of mine). I love the Robatsch and definitely got ideas from the book - but - and far be me to question an FM - the evaluations are often *very* optimistic for Black. Otherwise, the book is well-written, lively. With this book, Tiger's Modern and The Hippopotamus Rises you would have a good modern Robatsch trilogy covering everything but the Old Main Line and the Gurgenidze variations. The book is a Three Star but if you are a Robatscher - its a must have. (In this Forum I recently listed a biblio of the Robatsch and on that openings forum a couple years back, a list of basic variations. The Robastch still has *lots* of possibilities, variations, motifs and transpositions to mine for the adventurist defender. The CG.COM game base and opening explorer can give you some ideas of the possibilities.) |
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| Jan-10-12 | | hms123: <re-post>
Werner Kaufmann <whiteshark>: He is an antiquarian chessbookseller.
His homepage, where you can find around 5.000 (rare) items:
http://www.wernerkaufmann.ch/ |
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| Jan-10-12 | | hms123: <re-post>
Philip Corbin <whiteshark>: THE ENTERTAINING CHESS GAMES (1970-2010) OF DR. PHILIP CORBIN, FIDE MASTER, BARBADOS
“This book, a delectable gourmet feast, will educate, excite and entertain with its magnificent fare for persons of differing chess tastes. It is undoubtedly a welcome, and ‘timeless’ addition to chess folklore and literature.” Ian G. Wilkinson, Kingston, Jamaica FIDE Master Dr. Philip A. Corbin, 7-time National Chess Champion of Barbados, has recently retired from the international chess arena and has candidly annotated his most memorable chess games over a 40-year period from 1970 to 2010. Played in many countries around the world, these games range from fiery friendliness to epic encounters over 12 Olympiads against some of the world's choicest players. Power-packed with arresting anecdotes, this book, the first on chess by a Barbadian, is designed to both educate and entertain the reader with Corbin's 'Calypso Chess'. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | wordfunph: "I can tell you that if your bookshelf does not contain one (or even all!) of his superb works,
then your chess library must be considered incomplete!" - GM Ron Henley (on Jan Timman's books) |
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| Jan-23-12 | | TheFocus: <wordfunph> I can agree with that. I don't think Timman has ever written a bad book. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | hms123: I just bought <Power Chess With Pieces> by Timman. So far it seems well worth having. |
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| Jan-25-12 | | parisattack: Timman's Selected Games a dandy tome. He's an excellent chess writer. |
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| Jan-25-12 | | hms123: <parisattack> You are costing me a lot of money. :-) thanks--hms |
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| Jan-27-12 | | parisattack: :) Chess books are an addiction. I've had it myself for 45 years. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | wordfunph: made me smile..
<Drunkenknight: I was in used book store and came across a number of good chess books, unusual for that
store. I asked the owner what happened. He said, some guy keeps coming by, dropping off his opening books because he gets beat by 12 year olds. Then a few months later, he realizes he really needs the books and buys them back.> :-) |
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