advice...

just about to place an order there...

foxy openings DVD: Albin counter gambit
book: art of attack in chess (heard it's good)

but I spotted the excalibur grandmaster electronic chess set....
I'm severely tempted, any one got one? Good / Bad?

Cheers,

J

PS - any other suggestions on above items welcome, just feel like splashing out... 🙂

Originally posted by onyx2006
just about to place an order there...

foxy openings DVD: Albin counter gambit
book: art of attack in chess (heard it's good)

but I spotted the excalibur grandmaster electronic chess set....
I'm severely tempted, any one got one? Good / Bad?

Cheers,

J

PS - any other suggestions on above items welcome, just feel like splashing out... 🙂

yup, cheers... it's the recent one.
Just wondering about the AC adapter with the chess board, I didn't order that, I presume I'll get one to fit it locally tho.

Originally posted by Ragnorak
Make sure you get a recent edition of Art of Attack in Chess.

D

Originally posted by d36366
Why do you say that? I've got an old edition (bought years ago). Is there a lot of new material in the latest edition? Is it worth "upgrading"?

http://www.chesshouse.com/Art_Attack_Chess_p/4717.htm

...that's the one I ordered.

Originally posted by onyx2006
http://www.chesshouse.com/Art_Attack_Chess_p/4717.htm

...that's the one I ordered.

well thank god for algebraic notation, i couldn't hack it otherwise! I tend to have more bloody chess books @ home now than anything else, about twenty something altogether.

We should set up some kind of RHP library where we could swop books with each other.

J

I know what you mean about algebraic - on Amazon, I got Art of Attack and then some other book for £3 as a special package deal. The other book is in descriptive notation, which you can't even read anymore because it's covered in my red wine vomit.

I've only read one book completely and that was some tactics book which was pretty poorly written - Eric somethingorother I think. Nearly finished Reassess your chess (after over a year) which is a good book and read half of Chernev's 'logical chess'.

I want a good book of analysed Master games next - Der Schwarze Ritter posted a good list on another thread, check that out if you haven't already.

chess, the art of logical thinking - that's a good one.

Originally posted by onyx2006
chess, the art of logical thinking - that's a good one.

must look into that, a few others I'd recommend...

"How to choose a chess move" (Soltis I think?) not bad at all.

"the mammoth book of chess", (Burgess) there's all sorts of everything in that, just a good one to have, openings, traps, endgames, attacking, and plenty of games.

"the sicilian with Qb6" (Zoran Ilic) very complex, hard to read, but great theory done.

"winning with the kan" very good, not as hard to read as the Qb6 book.

and obviously silmans 'reassess yer chess" that's simply a must have...

probably way more, but I really like these ones off top of my head.

Originally posted by TheGambit
I know what you mean about algebraic - on Amazon, I got Art of Attack and then some other book for £3 as a special package deal. The other book is in descriptive notation, which you can't even read anymore because it's covered in my red wine vomit.

I've only read one book completely and that was some tactics book which was pretty poorly written - Eric ...[text shortened]... warze Ritter posted a good list on another thread, check that out if you haven't already.

Originally posted by YUG0slav
I'll just assume that you have a busy schedule because Reassess Your Chess is a very easy read.

Originally posted by zebano
It all depends on how much of the annotation you go through, and how seriously you look at it.