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| Feb-22-20 | | 1d410: A bunch of bad chess books by authors like Andrew Soltis came out so there was a response of two books. Game changer about AI with an intro by Garry Kasparov and Beyond Material, a codifying of lots of the things I was talking about on this site when I used it regularly. I recommend passing on the AI book but getting Beyond Material. Be careful of fraud doctors. |
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Mar-22-20
 | | perfidious: Anyone spotted a copy of Golombek's bio of Hugh Alexander? Last I saw, nothing available on Amazon and even then, at an exorbitant price. |
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Mar-22-20
 | | chancho: <Perfidious> You mean this book? https://www.amazon.com/Games-Alexan... |
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Mar-22-20
| | perfidious: <chancho>, once I checked out your link, I realised I had been, shall we say, barking up the wrong tree. The book I was looking for was Alexander's 1972 work on the game, which has a fine interview with Larsen and is well worth a read for those who have never seen it. Many thanks in any case! |
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| Sep-17-20 | | parisattack: Pergamon Chess Books
100 Classics of the Chessboard – Dickins/Ebert
125 Selected Games – Smyslov
A Complete Defense to 1.e4 – Hooper
A Complete Defense to 1.d4 – Cafferty
Achieving the Aim – Botvinnik
Anatoly Karpov – Botvinnik
Application of Chess Theory – Geller
Art of Attack – Vukovic
Art of Defence in Chess – Polugayevsky/Damsky
British Chess – Botterill
Catastrophe in the Opening – Neishtadt
Chess at the Top 1979-1984 – Karpov
Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov – Keene
Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge – Averbakh
Chess for Children – Richardson
Chess in the Eighties – Bronstein/Smolyan
Chess is My Life – Karpov
Chess Kaleidoscope – Karpov/Gik
Chess Scandals – Edmonton (Cadogan)
Comprehensive Chess Endings – Averbakh (5v)
Comprehensive Chess Openings – Estrin/Panov (3v?)
Computer Chess Book – Harding
Creative Chess – Avni
David Brnstein: Chess Improviser – Vainstein
Defence and Counter-Attack- Florian
Dynamic Chess Strategy Suba
Endgame Strategy – Shereshevsky
Evolution of Chess Opening Theory – Keene
From Baguio to Merano – Karpov/Baturinsky
From the Middlegame to the Endgame – Mednis
Grandmaster Performance – Polugayevsky
Grandmaster Preparation – Polugayevsky
Half-Century of Chess – Botvinnik
Kasparov vs Karpov – Kasparov (Cadogan)
Keres: Master Class – Neishtadt
Killer Grob – Basman
Learn Chess – ChOD Alexander (2v?)
Learn Chess from the World Champions – Levy
London 1980 – Hartston
London-Leningrad – Kasparov/Neat
Master Chess – Kopec
Mastering the Endgame – Shereshevsky (2v)
Michael Adams - Adams
Modern Chess Opening Theory – Suetin
Montreal 1979 – Tal et al
Opening into the Endgame – Mednis
Opening Preparation – Assiac/O’Connell
Paul Keres Best Games – Varnusz (2v)
Play the Benko Gambit – Ravikumar (Cadogan)
Play the Bogo-Indian – Taulbut
Play the Caro-Kann – Varnusz
Play the Catalan – Neishtadt 2v
Play the French – Watson
Play the King’s Gambit (2v)
Play the King’s Indian – Marovic
Play the Nimzo-Indian – Gligoric
Play the St George – Basman
Play the Tarrasch – Shamkovitch/Schiller
Queen Sacrifice – Neishstadt
Ruy Lopez – Barden
Selected Games – Botvinnik
Sicilian Labrinth – Polugayevsky (2v)
Sicilian Poisoned Pawn Variation – Kovacs (Cadogan)
Sicilian Sveshnikov – Adorjan/Horvath
Test and Improve Your Chess – Alburt
Test of Time – Kasparov
Test your Chess I.Q. – Livshitz (2v)
The Blumenfeld Gambit – Przewoznik
The Chess Beat – Evans (Cadogan)
The Games of Petrosian – Shekhtman (2v)
The Machine Plays Chess – Bell
The Sicilian Defence – Gligoric
Three Steps to Chess Mastery – Suetin
Tigran Petrosian – O’Kelly
Tournament Chess (15v?)
Others, please? |
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| Sep-17-20 | | optimal play: This comment is in the obituary of Louis Goldsmith "In Steinitz's book one of his games is given and described as most brilliant." - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) issue Saturday 16 September 1911 Does anybody know which of Wilhelm Steinitz's numerous books contains the game from Louis Goldsmith? And what that game was? |
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| Sep-18-20 | | Paint My Dragon: <parisattack> I suspect that your Pergamon/Cadogan list could get very long. Thank goodness it's not Batsford! A few titles that jumped off my bookshelf:
Pergamon:
World Chess Champions - Winter
My Best Games of Chess - Szabo
Battles of Hastings - Cload/Keene
Cadogan:
Timman's Selected Games - Timman
Chess Traveller's Quiz Book - Hodgson
Soft Pawn - Hartston
The Nimzo-Indian Defence - Gligoric
The Modern Benoni - Norwood
King's Indian: Averbakh Variation - Petursson
I noticed too that some back catalogue entries from the Pergamon 'Russian Series' are given on the front page reverse of Kasparov v Karpov 1990. |
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| Sep-18-20 | | Paint My Dragon: You already have most of the KvK list I think.
Another Cadogan I missed:
The Soviet Championships - Cafferty/Taimanov |
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| Sep-19-20 | | parisattack: Thank you <Paint My Dragon>! |
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Sep-28-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
'Spurious Games' by David Jenkins.
Review here:
https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... *** |
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Nov-20-20
 | | OhioChessFan: I'll have to find Spurious Games. Does <FSR> know you've used that game on your site? |
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Nov-20-20
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
I did not know <Sally Simpson> was Red Hot Pawn! Nice one brah. A delightful game from FSR there too. |
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Nov-20-20
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Hi Ohio,
I'm pretty sure I told FSR (somewhere) I had used his game. But to play safe I'll go and mention it on the game page. Yes a good book, chess to think about, no mushy love stuff. I do not want to read about chess players hoping in and out each others bed. They should be studying endgames, looking for TN's or...as is the case here, bumping each other off. The author, David Jenkins, liked my review so he sent me a signed hardback.
I thought this was very nice of him. (he also added if he had known about my game v Kynoch 'Pins and Needles' he would have used it - the book left some players alive so hopefully I'll make the sequel.) Hi Jessica,
Yes Red Hot Pawn. Been doing a column there for about 10 years. close to my 400th post. The site is mainly home and casual players the core of the game. Losses are shrugged off, you can experiment, set traps, take days to move. Just have fun....remember those days, when you played chess for the sheer fun of it? (Yes 'column' dislike the term 'blog' I think blog stands for 'this the end of free speech.') Here is the latest one.
https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... Me and the Aitken books. Now on book 7, loving every minute of it, have found dozens of unknown games Aitken played v the good guys including a 4 game match with Alexander played just after the war and before Hasting '46. A couple of cracking games in that match. It makes a change from the RHP games I play over. I keep expecting a humorous blunder, one or two appear but not on a regular basis. When they do Aitken is quite liberal with his '??' The games here have a gap from 1939 to December 1945. He played dozens of games during war and a few games appear from the Bletchley Park Boys where the chess players there had a ladder going and hut 6 v hut 8 type matches. One WWII game had no opponents name, which I think is taking the Official Secrets Act a bit too far. No Turing game (yet!) but according to Golombek Turing was 'a Queen odds player.' so maybe he did not take part. (he probably had more important things to do, like winning the war....) *** |
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Nov-23-20
 | | FSR: <Sally Simpson> Regarding idiots mixing up <Atkins> and <Aitken>, the story (which I probably got from the Coles book you pictured) is that the Brits, prior to what become FIDE's inaugural 1950 list of Grandmasters and International Masters, proposed that Atkins (whose active days as a player were long behind him), be given the title of International Master. The Soviets thought the Brits were talking about Aitken, and were skeptical about whether the player in question merited the title. The Brits explained to the Soviets that they were talking about <Atkins>, not <Aitken>, and pointed out that he had left their man Chigorin in the dust at 13th DSB Kongress (Hanover) (1902). The Soviets were persuaded. |
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Nov-23-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Thanks FSR I've never heard about that one, though I have heard them being mixed up not on purpose a few times. It is not in 'The Doyen' Atkins getting the title is but alas no mention of Aitken...can you recall a source, I'd like to use it. Meanwhile I'll dig and see if I can find one.
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Nov-23-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Got it. Steve Giddins.
https://matthewsadler.me.uk/attack/... *** |
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Nov-23-20
| | FSR: <Sally Simpson> Atkins was a superstar. I have no doubt that he would have been among the top players in the world (even a potential world champion) had he been a professional. At Hanover he finished behind only Janowski (who played a world championship match against Lasker) and Pillsbury (who surely would have done so had he not contracted syphilis). He finished ahead of Chigorin, Marshall, and Gunsberg, all of whom had played or would play for the world championship. |
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| Jul-31-21 | | parisattack: Does anyone here have a copy of or information on Richard Verber's book on the Sicilian O'Kelly? |
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| Sep-27-21 | | parisattack: I have been asked – on numerous occasions – what purpose does a large chess book collection serve? I have ‘sold down’ over the years but still have over 3k volumes. Well, if you are a collector the question sort of answers itself…. you collect to…collect. But is it really practical in any way? One of the projects I often use my collection for (and any other sources available) is ‘Adopt-a-Game.’ I find a game that speaks to me and try to run down all the different annotations I can find, consolidate them into a single document. I’ve done perhaps two dozen games over the years. Right now, I am doing the 18th game of Botvinnik-Petrosian 1963. As a bonus, I’ve developed a very nice way to parse variations, sub-variations and sub-sub variations and still make it very readable. Perhaps I will write a chess book…someday. (I’ve started several over the years.) So, to the other chess book addicts here - What do you do with your chess book collection? Enquiring minds want to know. |
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Sep-27-21
 | | g15713: 3k book collection - Wow!
I use my small book collection to analyze endgames 'Game Collection: g15713's favorite collections of endgames Understanding Chess Endings by John Nunn, my favorite chess writer, is a great place to start, then his Nunn's Chess Endings Volumes I and II - my two cents on great chess books on endgames. Of course there are many others -
<"Part of the problem is there are too many good endgames books and not enough people read them!"> aansel Understanding Endgames series by authors Karsten Muller and Yakov Konoval is a newer addition on endgames - good reference books. Understanding Rook Endgames
Understanding Minor Piece Endgames
Understanding Rook vs. Minor Piece Endgames
Understanding Queen Endgames
GM József Pintér in his book <7 Men> 2016, is a collection of well-known 7-piece positions. 'https://learningchess.net/blog/?p=911 |
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| Oct-05-21 | | suenteus po 147: Hey, everyone. I'm looking to invest in some essential chess books, and I would appreciate some advice and recommendations. I've never really had a big chess library, or even moderately sized for that matter. I've read 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes by Evans, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Chernev, Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves by Pandolfini, and Chess in the Eighties by Bronstein and Smolyan, but I don't own any of those anymore. The only chess book I own now is The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, which I haven't read yet, and that's it. What are five or six books I should absolutely have on my shelf? When I was last a club player my highest rating was near 1700, but that was 15 years ago. I play almost entirely correspondence chess now, but some day I'd like to return to the club scene and get my rating up over 1800. What are the books that would best help get me there? These are the books on my shopping list at the moment (based on numerous recommendations read here at chessgames.com): Art of Attack in Chess by Vukovic
Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch
Simple Chess by Stean
Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 by Bronstein I figure I need a book on endgames and one on middlegames, and anything else that my be considered a big gap. I appreciate all advice and/or detailed recommendations. |
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Oct-05-21
 | | Check It Out: Definitely add The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Bronstein and Furstenberg. Great anecdotes, lots of middles game analysis. I don't see Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games in there, that's a no-brainer. Enjoy! |
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Oct-05-21
| | g15713: Hi Peter!
Understanding Chess Endings by John Nunn, my favorite chess writer, is a great place to start. It covers 100 key endgame concepts and shows how they are used to win games or save difficult positions; then his Nunn's Chess Endings Volumes I and II - my two cents on great chess books on endgames. 'https://www.amazon.com/Understandin... |
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| Oct-05-21 | | suenteus po 147: <Check It Out> & <g15713> Thank you both! |
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| Oct-06-21 | | fabelhaft: One of the more interesting books I have read in recent years is The Anand Files by Michiel Abeln. If one followed top chess around 2010 it can't get much more exciting than reading all the details concerning Anand's preparation for and playing the title matches against Kramnik, Topalov and Gelfand. Abeln is not exactly a name like Bronstein or Fischer but I don't recall reading any more interesting book on the 21st century chess scene. At Amazon all 16 reviewers gave it 5/5: https://www.amazon.com/Anand-Files-... |
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