Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like the
Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book in the
form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
D wrote:
Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like the
Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book in the
form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current read... and it's
very good. (And at £7.44 great value for money.)
On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like
the Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book
in the form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current read... and it's
very good. (And at £7.44 great value for money.)
Thank you for the recommendation. Could you give me a brief
review? Why do you like it?
D wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like
the Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book
in the form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current read... and it's
very good. (And at £7.44 great value for money.)
Thank you for the recommendation. Could you give me a brief
review? Why do you like it?
I have only just started reading it [Game 2] but it is very
instructive and most importantly, easy to understand. Maybe not
for absolute beginners, unless they are using a chess board at
the same time to play the moves through, as opposed to just
reading the narrative. I'm probably not going to make much use
of the tactics in reality, as I'm just following the main lines
and skipping the variations, but I have always wanted to read
it. (It's an old book, first published in 1957.) So that will be
another box ticked when I finish it.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by
Irving Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current
read... and it's very good. (And at £7.44 great value
for money.)
Thank you for the recommendation. Could you give me a brief
review? Why do you like it?
I have only just started reading it [Game 2] but it is very
instructive and most importantly, easy to understand. Maybe
not for absolute beginners, unless they are using a chess
board at the same time to play the moves through, as opposed
to just reading the narrative. I'm probably not going to
make much use of the tactics in reality, as I'm just
following the main lines and skipping the variations, but I
have always wanted to read it. (It's an old book, first
published in 1957.) So that will be another box ticked when
I finish it.
Ahh, got it! Yes, I think that at regular hobby levels, a book
from 57 or even the 30s will work just as well as many modern
books.
D wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by
Irving Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current
read... and it's very good. (And at £7.44 great value
for money.)
Thank you for the recommendation. Could you give me a brief
review? Why do you like it?
I have only just started reading it [Game 2] but it is very
instructive and most importantly, easy to understand. Maybe
not for absolute beginners, unless they are using a chess
board at the same time to play the moves through, as opposed
to just reading the narrative. I'm probably not going to
make much use of the tactics in reality, as I'm just
following the main lines and skipping the variations, but I
have always wanted to read it. (It's an old book, first
published in 1957.) So that will be another box ticked when
I finish it.
Ahh, got it! Yes, I think that at regular hobby levels, a book
from 57 or even the 30s will work just as well as many modern
books.
It was always on my list but I never got around to reading it...
so now I've a Kindle I am using it to catch up on books I
meant to read, but didn't, especially if I see them cheap on
Amazon. As I said, this book was only seven quid something on
Amazon UK, which for a classic chess book is good value for
money IMO. Plus, I am not cluttering up my [over-full] book
shelves. Which means less for the grandkids to throw in to the
dustbin in a few years time! Win/win.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
It was always on my list but I never got around to reading
it... so now I've a Kindle I am using it to catch up on
books I meant to read, but didn't, especially if I see them
cheap on Amazon. As I said, this book was only seven quid
something on Amazon UK, which for a classic chess book is
good value for money IMO. Plus, I am not cluttering up my
[over-full] book shelves. Which means less for the grandkids
to throw in to the dustbin in a few years time! Win/win.
If you don't have any ethical qualms about pirating, you can
also find millions of ebooks on https://annas-archive.org/ and https://libgen.gs/.
D wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
It was always on my list but I never got around to reading
it... so now I've a Kindle I am using it to catch up on
books I meant to read, but didn't, especially if I see them
cheap on Amazon. As I said, this book was only seven quid
something on Amazon UK, which for a classic chess book is
good value for money IMO. Plus, I am not cluttering up my
[over-full] book shelves. Which means less for the grandkids
to throw in to the dustbin in a few years time! Win/win.
If you don't have any ethical qualms about pirating, you can
also find millions of ebooks on https://annas-archive.org/ and
https://libgen.gs/.
Shiver me timbers! Free books? Aye Aye Captain. Bring a spring
upon her and let's go and pillage some booty, ye scurvy dogs...
If you don't have any ethical qualms about pirating, you can also find millions of ebooks at ********** and **********
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 9:35:33 +0000, D wrote:
If you don't have any ethical qualms about pirating, you can also find
millions of ebooks at ********** and **********
Vladimir Kramnik would find people in the chess community that have no
ethics interesting. After all, it's not a big leap to go from illegally downloading PDF's of books to help you learn chess to using stockfish to
help you play chess !
Where do you draw the line ?
Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:Another book I really wish I'd read as a young player.
Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like the
Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book in the
form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current read... and it's
very good. (And at £7.44 great value for money.)
William Hyde
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:53:33 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
Blueshirt wrote:
D wrote:Another book I really wish I'd read as a young player.
Either a re-read of Zuke Em. The Colle-Zukertort
Revolutionized A chess opening for everyone, since I like the
Colle and Colle-Zukertort systems, or a lighter book in the
form of The Bobby Fisher I knew and other stories.
I recently purchased "Logical Chess - Move by Move" by Irving
Chernev for my Kindle so that is my current read... and it's
very good. (And at £7.44 great value for money.)
William Hyde
My first two chess books were a book on the middle game by IA Horowitz
and MCO 10 both of which I got from the university bookstore when my
mother was going there. Eventually the binding broke on the Horowitz
book and I kept it permanently with a rubber band around it to keep
from losing pages.
I think I had that Horowitz book. It fell apart rather rapidly and after a period of rubber-banding, I threw it out.
Batsford for a while was famous for books that fell apart. The only one I bought was the book of Tal's games, still around here somewhere.
It's only in chess publishing that I've encountered the phenomenon of the book that spontaneously disintegrates, but perhaps that just means I haven't bought enough bridge books.
William Hyde
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:53:33 -0400, William Hyde
My first two chess books were a book on the middle game by IA Horowitz
and MCO 10 both of which I got from the university bookstore when my
mother was going there. Eventually the binding broke on the Horowitz
book and I kept it permanently with a rubber band around it to keep
from losing pages.
I think I had that Horowitz book. It fell apart rather rapidly and
after a period of rubber-banding, I threw it out.
Batsford for a while was famous for books that fell apart. The only one
I bought was the book of Tal's games, still around here somewhere.
It's only in chess publishing that I've encountered the phenomenon of
the book that spontaneously disintegrates, but perhaps that just means I >haven't bought enough bridge books.
William Hyde
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