05 May 09
Originally posted by jonrothwellWinning Chess: How to Perfect your Attacking Play by Reinfeld and Chernev.
Hi everyone,
I love old chess books, ones that get called classics and are read for generations: My System, Fundamentals, Art of Attack etc
Can anyone suggest other old time books that are good?
Thanks.
Superb examples, brilliant explanations. Absolutely timeless in it's content.
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess-Irving-Chernev/dp/B000H0KCDI
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05 May 09
Originally posted by jonrothwellPerhaps you would enjoy Lasker's manual of chess.
Hi everyone,
I love old chess books, ones that get called classics and are read for generations: My System, Fundamentals, Art of Attack etc
Can anyone suggest other old time books that are good?
Thanks.
Dennis Monokroussos gives a review here: http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1226305245.shtml
05 May 09
Originally posted by jonrothwellOther than those mentioned, Capablanca's "Last Lectures" and Euwe's "Judgement and Planning in Chess" come to mind. I don't know if Michael Stean's "Simple Chess" would be considered a classic, but in my opinion, it should be.
Hi everyone,
I love old chess books, ones that get called classics and are read for generations: My System, Fundamentals, Art of Attack etc
Can anyone suggest other old time books that are good?
Thanks.
05 May 09
Originally posted by jonrothwellLogical Chess as mentioned.
Thanks for the suggestions,
I actually have Last lectures, how not to play chess and judgement and planning. All very good.
Going to check the others out. Did Euwe do one on the Avro tournament? And can anyone recommend Capablanca's My Chess Career?
Thanks.
Most Instructive games Ever Played - Chernev.
Avro book will go over your head. leave it for now.
Capa's Chess Fundementals is a classic,
My Chess Career needs to be read After 'Fundementals'
(but don't go out of you way to get it).
Top two are two of the Best Chess Books ever written.
Chernev could write and what's more he loved writing about chess.
05 May 09
Anything by the lasker brothers is worthy of close attention. I also recommend (though some would disagree) "Point Count Chess" by Horowitz.
Very instructive and a sad loss to television as a TV series are the books resulting from the excellent TV program "The Master Game", both series. I actually had the privalidge of meeting and playing (and losing to) Nigel Short when he was a competitor on the series.
05 May 09
Originally posted by jonrothwell500 Master Games of Chess - Tartakower
Hi everyone,
I love old chess books, ones that get called classics and are read for generations: My System, Fundamentals, Art of Attack etc
Can anyone suggest other old time books that are good?
Thanks.
Winning at Correspondence Chess- Harding (Already a Classic!!)
Zurich Candidates Tournament of 1953 (Author Unknown)
Basic Chess Endings - Fine (Flawed, but still very good.)
😏
06 May 09
Originally posted by bill718500 Master Games is Tartakower AND DUMONT (much of the book is based on the latter's press columns). 100 Modern Master Games (the sequel) is just as good and not as well known.
500 Master Games of Chess - Tartakower
Winning at Correspondence Chess- Harding (Already a Classic!!)
Zurich Candidates Tournament of 1953 (Author Unknown)
Basic Chess Endings - Fine (Flawed, but still very good.)
😏
Don't know the Harding book mentioned, but his last (the Write Move) is excellent, and he's been at the club doing research for the next one.
There were a number of books on Zurich 1953, Najdorf's is often mentioned as best (but not, as far as I am aware, available in English). I suspect you mean Bronstein's (much of which was written by Vainstein).
Fine's was a classic in its day, but there are more modern, more readable endgame books. I'd reccomend P.G. Griffiths Modern Endgame in Theory and Practice and also his Winning in the Endgame (I think - it was based on his Practical Chess Ending column in BCM) as both instructive and entertaining.
There's also a rave review in the current NIC of some book called Rampant Chess (the name of the author escapes me!).
06 May 09
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Originally posted by bill718I've worked through these books (not quite finished 500, but you never quite finish 500)
500 Master Games of Chess - Tartakower
Winning at Correspondence Chess- Harding (Already a Classic!!)
Zurich Candidates Tournament of 1953 (Author Unknown)
Basic Chess Endings - Fine (Flawed, but still very good.)
😏
All of them are great. The errors in Fine's book are not of the caliber that we need worry about
its instruction. If anything, the knowledge behind it is still very valid, and even in its flaws,
acts as just a second layer of instruction.
-GIN