wow ! i fail to see how a great chess library can help in determining
moves and openings. first you would need to know & identify the
move! once detected maybe it could be looked up! but what then???
the pitt university has thousands of pgn files on many openings. great
but you would need to identify the opening first !
And why are you acting like that is hard? I mean sure...if someone
plays a completely offbeat and stupid line like 1.f3...some people
would not have info on that. I do. But most people play within a
certain range and all of these have been pretty well documented. Yes
TN's come up and then you just have to drop the book and take the
helm.
Maybe if you had some books you would understand.
Dave
i play away sometimes as well some openings ive tried start like
1:G4.... D5 2:H3.......E5 and so on from there it is one of the most
irregular and weirdest openings ever recorded and does not happen
very often in IM matches and GM matches.
And what has this got to do with "200 books of chess" schliemann??
YOURS
Ryan James
1.g4 (the Grob)... Well, you can try it a couple of times vs players who
are not familiar with this weird opening. Of course, it's not played at
master-level? Why should they? It's only a surprise opening, but it's
also very unsound. There are far better 1st moves, leading to an
abundance of intricate openings and resulting variations. Try them!
I hope for your sake you don't consider one owning 200 chessbooks,
all of them being on 'theory'. Never heard of biographies, tournament
books, match books? Never replayed games by Botvinnik,
Capablanca, Alekhine, et al? Never heard of New York 1924? AVRO
1938? Groningen 1946? Zürich 1953? Shame and pity! The Best
Games of...? Never read AUTObiographies? Or novels: The Defence
(Nabokov), Die Schachnovelle (Zweig), The Queen's Gambit (Tevis)?
Essays on chess? Chess-psychology books? Anecdotes on chess? 200
chessbooks is not extraordinarilly much. For your information: Chess
is the most published subject, not in absolute sold volume figures, but
it sold and sells the greatest number of TITLES. Many years ago there
was an estimate of (then) 240.000 different tirles. I don't think Dave
is just referring to sheer theory works. Do you?
Only "some" of them are fun to read? Are we to assume then, that the majority of
them are a dreadful bore? Have you actually read them all, or do you just collect
them? I've read Moby Dick and Joyce's Ulysses "for fun", but I have a hard time
forcing myself to read books on chess. But I guess that's one reason my rating
isn't any higher than it is.
You are killing me! ROFL. I have also read both of those as well as all
of Dickens work.
What I compare a "boring" chess book to is the fact the author usually
has no sense of humor. Tarkatower's book on his games has alot of
funny anectdotes...this what I mean. When you go through a
game..and go into subvariations and stuff..it would be nice for him to
say
" Now exd4 12.Bxc6 and if Nxe4 we have embarked into the realm of
the galactically stupid"
Now that would be a good book...full of stuff like that.
Don't ya think?
Dave
aah yes it issupposed to be serious after all it is an internationally
played sport or game what ever you wiish to class it under but it can
also have a funny side to it like coming out with frases like after
moving say A7....Nc3 THEN Qd4 to say something like the queen goes
here to support the rampant A pawn or something similar.
I dont know im not a comedian ill leave it to the profesional ones.
Yours
Ryan James
Bobby Fischer's Complete Games of Chess by Wade...or 500 Master
Games of Chess by Tarkatower.
Both the best books to have in one's collection.
I also have a 1st print hardback cover with dustjacket of My 60
Memorable games by Bobby...which I would part with for the right price.
But the hardest one for me to find and get was a hardback version (I
think it only came in hardback) of The Unknown Alekhine 1905-1914
by Reinfeld...very hard to get.
Like I said I will give a list of my library sometime.
Dave
I consider this question as being purely rethorical. Suppose I asked
you: wipe out all humans but one. Who would you (apart from
yourself, of course) select to stay?
Dave seems to be able to make a choice. I can't. There are many in
my library I could get rid of. But keeping just one... I cherish my
books, and for that matter not only those on chess.
Bye the way, Dave: I also have a copy of 'My 60 Memorable games',
cloth-bound, but it's in German. The same with a German semi-
luxuary edition of 'Mein System'. 22 years old and still brand-new,
since my German is too poor. I've got more chess books in German,
but in these you you don't need to know much vocabularly. 'Auf
Deutsch kann ich nur Brot und Butter kaufen'.
I have about 50 books of chess. It's hard to pick one of them to
keep. I think it would be either "The Game of Chess" by Siegbert
Tarrasch or "My System" by Nimzowitsch. Right now Tarrasch's book is
my favorite. I think it must be one of the most instructive books ever
written on the game. Tarrasch was a great chess teacher and he was
one of the five original Grand Masters.
I also have a copy of Fischer's "My 60 Memorable Games" in german.
Maybe that book comes in 3rd place.