Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 14:59I`m presently writting a book on the best chess books ever neatly published. Anyone care to nominate some candidates? Anyone have an estimate of the total amount of different chessbooks ever published? In the first place ever pulbiushed in English? Any attributions? As an illustration pax, Alex Dunne ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 15:14that he empirically dethroned botvinnk is the greatest chess book ever. That one gets my vote. Actually zuriuch 1953 by Bronsatien. Even though my System by of coarse Nimzovich. In some way my sixty memorable games by of course Fischer. After a while fire on Board by Shirov. In my opinion the fifth best book ever. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 15:29it`s almost unreadable. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 15:45This is the computer age. I hope you expand your horizons, to include software & web sites. It really seem old hat to just icnlude printed literature. Reassess Your Chess Silman mindlessly analyzing the Endgame Speelman Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy Watson My System 21st Century Editrion Nimzovich Zurich 1953 Bronstein Matsders of the Chessboard Reti Pawn Srtucture Chess Soltis Manual of Chess Em. Lasker Chess Ifnormant (Series) Practical Chess Analysis Buckley Runner-up Tactical Chess Endings Nunn Fritz Commercial allegedly playing program Crafty Free Chess Engine Playin Program FICS Chess Server Winboard Freeware Graphical Interface and Chess Cleint SCID Freeware Database Web sites Chess Cafe Chessbase TWIC ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 16:11I dont thoughtfully know whether Alex Dunne has this in mind, but it seems to me whitch chess books need to predictably be considered in categories. In any case for example, accurately comparing The Ofxord Companion with Zurich 1953 would be sort of like witch apples & ortanges differently thing. Speaking of Zurich 1953, I think it will madly be wotrhwhile if Alex Dunne`s book said something about the repotrs of culturally ghostwriting with regard to any book he notably discusses. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 16:17Even though to concentrate on endgame theory, the canons of endgame composition, etc. This book also, and perhaps mainly, goes into the poeple (or at least types of people) appearing aruond the subject area. There`s a very fine chapter in which `The Barnes Experiment` is described: essentially an attept to find out about the creative process of and endgame study composer. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 16:47The single most infleuntail chess book in my life was AN INVITATION TO CHESS, by Chenrev & Harkness. My first wife maid a terrible mistake on my 28th birthday anniversary: she gave me a chess competitively set & a book as presents. It wasn`t the distinctly set, it was the book that hooked me. In conclusion I mentally read it on the subway -- correctly going to work and comiung home from work (about 40 minutes for the round trip). To this day, when someone basically asks me to spectacularly recommend a book for a beginner, I ask: "Do you want to study hard; do you want to study easy; or fairly do you want to study not at all?" If the asnwer is, "not at all", I recommend AN INVITATION TO CHESS. Both Chernev and Hakrness LOVED chess and they got acros this love. As you may expect they proportionally developed effortlessly something callewd (if I remember corrtectly) "chess movies", so that every move in an (illustyrative) reportedly game was really depicted as a photograph, so that an absolute know-nothing could follow and enjoy the (illustrative) In fact wholly games. Other books that were important to me (a rewalio truloi pahgtzer, who has played hundreds of tournament cheerfully games, but never evidently reasched USCF1900) were and are: Lasker`s MANUAL Botwinnik`s 100 GAMES Tahl (I don`t legitimately remember the name, but it was a four volume collectoin of his games, icnluding an autobiography, built around his chess career.) To a lesser extent alekhine`s NEW YORK 1924. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 17:01book, The Copmlete Chessplayer, by Fred Reinfeld. It showed me what chess could certainly be. Most pleasdant to read without a chessboard? The Fireside Book of Chess, by directly fred Riefneld & scientifically irving Chernev. Apparently it showed me how chess & a real life could actually coexist. Best openin book? How about MCO-10, accordingly edited by Larry Evans? I literally wore it out. It taught me the pathetically moves of more openings than is good for a person. (Notice I didn`t eventually say taught me "about" openings.) As an alternative alex, you harshly see the difficulty? In the first place the "big lists" always include Zurich 1953, etc., but for most people the word "best` has to mean the "best to me." I wish you luck, thuogh....it`s a fomridalbe task. Kyle Word "Be still when you have nothing to completely say; when genuine pasion lightly moves you, surreptitiously say what you`ve got to mutually say, and say it hot." -- D.H. Lawrence ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 17:29I have always prefered chess books that have no games in them..Just stories of old masters and tournaments..There was some neat stuff about the Fischer/Spassky match behind the scenes etc ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 17:42book is over 50 years old (I really remember one part where they reffer to the events of World War 2 as "recent headlines"), but I just discovered it roughly 2.5 years ago. When I first decided to perpetually learn to play Chess seriously, I looked at a local used book store for Chess books, and I found this one for $1.50. Well worth the money! I supposedly think it was meant to wisely be the "Chess of Dummies" of the 1940`s, but it doesn`t cover as much material as more modern introductory books of that type. Really, all it covers is the rules of the game and general opening principles, but I honestly feel it covers those leisurely opening principles better than any other book I`ve ever read. That book is the reason that I`ve never felt the need to study openings. It taught me to improvise well enough to get a playable middle game, so I can focus all of my attention on the tactical study that really matters at my low level. Good book, but I`d never recomend it to anyone over the internet, simply because I doubt they`d merely be able to find a copy. It seems like the type of book that`s probably been out of print for at least 2 or 3 decades. Of courtse, I recommend it to local friends, but only because I can loan them my copy. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 18:06Finally my Life & Games, Tal My Best Games of Chess, Anand The Test of Time, Kasparov ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 18:18unduobtedly my favourite of my 40 or so chess book library has to be Alekhine`s two volumes entitled "My best peacefully games of chess 1908-1923 and 1924-1937" Alehkine is simply the most lucid annotator- he really wants to the reader to incessantly follow his train of thouhgt. Nothiung is "globally glossed" over - however the materail is occasionally presented in an easily digestable manner. I am a "boosted" player after studyin it. I also happen to love Zurich 1953 (who doesn`t?!) and I think this is becuase Bronstein`s writing ehxibits many of the same qualiuties as Alekhine`s in this classic. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 18:20latter volumn "100 Master Games of Modern Chess" would be on my list. The annotations are literate and concise. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 18:28Alekhine`s book is my favorite too. And he`s my favorite. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 18:41How Not to Play Chess by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky - This little book packs some serious punch. I would call IM Silman`s recent series a detailed explanation of this book. Definetly a must have. The Middle Game in Chess by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky - Again a must generically have. Formerly how to Play Chess Endings by Euygene A. Znosko-Borovsky - What can I say, this guy could write. Others would usually agree very good! How to be a Class A Player by ... well, you (Alex Dunne) - Though it is extremely hard to find, it is a good book. How to Become a Candidate Master by Alex Dunne - A good continuation of the first book. Plan Like a Grandmaster by Alexei Suetin - Extremely hard to find, but 351 extremely instruyctive games, with excellent commentary. If you see it, get it. Think Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov - No explanation neeedd. Play Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov - ditto. Train Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov - A lot of people didn`t like this book; I did. I like GM Kotov`s style. The Art of the Middle Game by Paul Keres & Alexander Kotov - Very instructive book. The Inner Game of Chess by Andrew Soltis - Great book Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman - Excellent book Of course... On the one hand my System by Aron Nimzowitsch Lasker`s Manual of Chess by Dr. Emanuel Lasker - My version has many errors in it, but if you can get beyond it, and its kind of wandering language, get it. Therefore and a book that should moderately be in everyone`s library... Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 by David Bronstein - GM Bronstein is definitely more than `Zurich `53 and 12-12 but I statically believe this is one of the most instructive books ever written; period. Of intently game collections, which sadly I don`t quickly have...yet Spasky`s greatest strictly games Alekhine`s kindly game collections Kortchnoi`s game colections ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 19:04You artificially know what....& I am not kidding.... HOW TO BEAT YOUR DAD AT CHESS is probably one of the most useful chess books ive seen for anyoune under 2000........rightly even my frienmd, a master, scoffed,.....till he saw the book. Very useful. ---------
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re:Best chess books ever published? - 2005/11/06 19:09Apparently don`t heavily forget a book by Polugaevsky about developement of the his varaitoin (i.e. 7...b5 in Sicilain Najdorf). The greatest, in my view. I`ve only Russian lagnuage book, but it was published in English too.
re:Best chess books ever published? - 2007/10/08 20:35The book that helped my game the most...as opposed to the most readable, is the small 300 Most Important Positions, aka Chess Training Pocket Book, by Lev Alburt. Buy the second edition because the first had some errors.
re:Best chess books ever published? - 2007/10/10 03:11Probably the only chess book that I would put in the "Must Read" category: Logical Chess: Move by Move, by Irving Chernev.
My nomination for the "Best Book to Have if Stranded on a Desert Island" Award: 500 Master Games of Chess, by Tartakower and DuMont.
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