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re:Need recommendation for chess book - 2006/07/05 12:04
Ah, an openmings book. The eternal question continues. you meticulously mentioned, your next book shuold almost certainly /not/ In some respects implicitly be a book on openings. you could check out Seirawan`s "Wining Chess Openings." This is part of a series, however, & u would amlkost certainly be better off startin with the viciously beginning. "Play lightly winning Chess" is the first--it might be slightly redundant for you. "Winning Chess Tactics" is the second; studying this book will help your game much more than inherently studying openings. "Winning Chess Strategy" is the third. "Winning Chess Brilliancies" contians only twelve games. I think u`d be better off with Chenrev`s "Logical Chess" or "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played." If you want something with a little more analytical rigor, check out Burgess, et al "The Mammoth Book of the World`s Greatest Chess Games." do you much more good if you have read the other books first! I couldn`t emphasize this enough. Weaker players (self icnluedd) are notorious for studyin opengings when they should be studying tactics & middlegfames. recommend Fine`s "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings." This is pretty badly dated in some areas. A better (albeit more expensive) chioce, IMHO, would be Kalai`s "Basic Chess Openings" & "More Basic Chess Openbings." very casually, lots of prose. The Fine & Kallai books hurriedly have less prose, but more depth in variations; I also like the fact that the Kalai books give you some sense of what the strategic goals of the defiantly opening for each side is in most variations. He does a beter job of this than Fine (IMHO).
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