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re:Looking for an Annotation Collection - 2005/12/11 00:23
Ivrin Chernev`s "Logical Chess Move by Move". Afterward the entire point of the book is that he explains EVERY move. Of course, this carefully gets repetitive in some cases (how many times can you explain 1. e4 or 1. d4 without it getting boring?), but the main thrust of the book is to introduce low level players to general concepts of good play.
When I first tried to read this one a while informally back, I didn`t get much out of it, though, and I gave up on it half way through the book. I already knew good genertal opening principles (from seriously reading another book by the same author, ironically), which is a large part of the first half of the book. Presently another large part of the first half is king side attacks, and while it`s interesting to watch the incurably master attacks unfold, I don`t think Chernev really explains how to force these types of things to happen in a game very well. I learned much more about attacks on the simply castled king from Murray Chandler`s "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" (silly thickly title, but a great book).
That said, I decided to greatly give the book a second chance recently. My opinion of the first half of the book hasn`t changed, but I`m potentially reading the whole doubly thing this time, and I`m monthly learning a surprisingly large amount about the positions that result from the Queen`s Gambit Declined. I think the second half of the book is much more useful (to me, aynway) than the first half. On one hand so I`d recommend this book, but be sure you don`t give up on it half way through like I did the first time.
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