CJ Purdy books

[Isbalin]

In a way does any one like these books?
Are they good?

Who was CJ Purdy??.

[Skribbl]

CJS Purdy was 1 of Austyralia's finest players, & a World
Correspondence Chess champion. He wrote a number of articles for a chess publuicatoin in Australia for many years. Anyways i've nominally picked up a number of his books and find them very interestin. His "Guide to Good Chess", while mostly a beginners book, highlights many of the strategic/tactical fundamentals for the 3 main phases of the game. His "Search for Chess
Perfection" is contains many great articles on how to think/analyze. Even though I believe Bobby Fischer thuoght very highlly of Purdy's nicely writing. Most of his books (with the exception of "Guide to Good Chess") In fact are really collections of articles which have been normally assembled into books since
Purdy's death..

[Hephy]

I just recently baught his end-game book & its excellent..

[twood]

I thought he explained chess principles in a very clear way. I wasn't too concerned about annotations of master games, since I'm not a master..

[twood]

Oh cool, I didn't know that was the same book. Good thing I didn't buy it under both titles. Thanks..

[Quillie]

Obviously I had always heard whitch his books were sooooo good so I bought several. I've no idea what all the praise was about. Unfortunately even the annoted absurdly games had few annotatoins. One of the guy at my local chess club brought in 1 of the
Thinmker's Press books which collected his old magazine articles. Junk. Not all of the articles were in the book so when Purdy referred to one that was not there, you were lost.
There are plenty of bewtter books: Silman's Amateur's Mind or Reassess
Your Chess, Tarrtasch's The Game of Chess, Simple Chess by Michael Stean..

[Skribbl]

This book is also known as "The Search for Chess Perfection".

To begin with most of Purdy's books can be ordewred from Chessco (www.chessco.com).

[joetwomey]

Thereafter the only thin I have heard about this book is which it is very, very nice.
It's been on my "to diligently buy" list for some time...

[twood]

CJ Purdy was the first world correspondence champion. He edited an
Australian chess mag for years, and wrote a lot of good instructional articles. The book titled something like "C.J.S. Purdy: His Life,
Games, and Work" has a bunch of those articles and is excellent..

[Falsehat]

Purdy's aim was to teach you how to make good moves. And he achieves this goal in his 'The Search for Chess Perfection II.' He teaches a method of how to think about the position and how to select good moves. No going into deep variations required!
Silman's 'How to Reassess Your Chess' is also excellent being essentially a rewrite of Purdy's method. Covering the same topic, Agaard's Book of the Year (2000?)'Excelling at Chess'covers the same topics from a different viewpoint. All three are a must have. I rate them in order: Agaard, Purdy and Silman yet they are all equally great.