I have over 400 on everything from wild opening variations to endgame studies. I have game collections of every world champion from Steinitz to Kasparov. I have most of the classics/improvement books. I am an obssessive collector though. How many books do you guys have?
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsCompared to that, I have a modest amount of chess books. Books in general, I have hundreds upon hundred. I love to read and sometimes when I am in a good part of a book and a friend calls to have a few drinks I often turn them down saying I am busy. By the way, does anybody have Christopher Paolini's new book Brisingr?
I have over 400 on everything from wild opening variations to endgame studies. I have game collections of every world champion from Steinitz to Kasparov. I have most of the classics/improvement books. I am an obssessive collector though. How many books do you guys have?
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsall (including the downloaded ones) about 100...
I have over 400 on everything from wild opening variations to endgame studies. I have game collections of every world champion from Steinitz to Kasparov. I have most of the classics/improvement books. I am an obssessive collector though. How many books do you guys have?
original books (about 10)
printed books (after downloading them) about 6-8
rest electronic format
I have read about 8-10 out of them, only about 5-6 read throughly 🙁
Shame on me!!!...so much info there and I have no will power and time to use it 🙁
Originally posted by tomtom232I've started reading it, but haven't gotten too far. Apparently the "trilogy" is being expanded into four books....
Compared to that, I have a modest amount of chess books. Books in general, I have hundreds upon hundred. I love to read and sometimes when I am in a good part of a book and a friend calls to have a few drinks I often turn them down saying I am busy. By the way, does anybody have Christopher Paolini's new book Brisingr?
As for chess books, I have probably around 20 or so; I feel that at any given time only 7 or 8 books are truly necessary at a time; I have more than that because as I grew in strength, I would naturally need different books. I think that two books on the opening, one on tactics (supplemented or replaced by a tactics program) one on endgame (Silman's endgame course neatly fills this space) one or two on strategy (like a general one (i.e. Reassess your chess) and a specific one (i.e. The Art of Attack in Chess)) and then one or annotated game collections. Any other needs can be supplemented by the internet.
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsThread 98436
I have over 400 on everything from wild opening variations to endgame studies. I have game collections of every world champion from Steinitz to Kasparov. I have most of the classics/improvement books. I am an obssessive collector though. How many books do you guys have?
I read the other thread by greenpawn. I do exactly the same thing. I've only read about 20 or so cover to cover. I hop around in the others and put them back on the shelf. A couple months ago, I wanted to start reading them all. I read The Most Instructive Games Of Chess Ever Played, Petrosian's Best Games Of Chess, and Why Lasker Matters. I then started The Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal. While the games were of a very high quality, I felt that they weren't really teaching me much. Tal is such a genius, I find it hard to learn from him. I put my reading on hold when I became a paying member here. I've been playing so many games that I've tried to get away from chess whenever a move isn't due. Now that my game load is low (er), I will have to try to pick up from there, although I don't feel ready for Tal. I need some endgame knowledge, so I will probably read Capablanca's Best Endings or Vassily Smyslov: Endgame Virtuoso (By Smyslov LOL). I also intend to finish Petrosian with Petrosian's Legacy. Every game in Legacy has not been covered in the Clarke book!
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsThat's an impressive collection! Do you have a lot of NIC mags and yearbooks as well?
I have over 400 on everything from wild opening variations to endgame studies. I have game collections of every world champion from Steinitz to Kasparov. I have most of the classics/improvement books. I am an obssessive collector though. How many books do you guys have?
Originally posted by MindWarsI have one Informant and one New In Chess Yearbook. 🙂 Although they are great books, I really didn't feel like they were for me. In my opinion, they are more geared at the professional who must keep up with the modern trend. I have one New In Chess Magazine (sampler). It is very nice and includes a tribute to Tony Miles (around the time of his death). I had a lot of Chess Life Magazines, but I just cut out the articles I liked and threw them away. I have the last year of Chess Digest Magazine. I also have Blackmar-Diemer World from about issue 8 until it went out of print. I have a few VHS videos too. I have GM Video magazine with some nice speed games. It has a very interesting game where Speelman dismantles (but draws 🙁 ) Kramnik with a double fianchetto defense. I also have 2 tapes on Kasparov-Anand 1995, Play The Sicilian Vols 1 and 2 ( 1 Najdorf 2 Anti Sicilians) by Walter Browne, Foxy Openings (King's Gambit and Albin), and a Romun Forum (Beating Alekhine,Pirc,French). I have a CD of Comprehensive Chess Endings by Averbakh (all the books possibly modified). The only computer playing software I have is on my old Windows 95 computer. I have Chessmaster 6000, Fritz 5 ( I think), and my favorite Power Chess. Power Chess had these 5 or so annotated games that were really well done. The games were 1. Morphy' Opera Game 2. Steinitz-Von Bardeleben 3. A Giouco Piano played during WWI 4. Smyslov-Fischer 5. Deep Blue vs M Chess 6. Deep Blue Kasparov. Each one was very well annotated. The queen even annotated your games with the power chess king (although some of its annotations became useless after a certain point.) 🙂
That's an impressive collection! Do you have a lot of NIC mags and yearbooks as well?
I have a few nice books. I have a Freeborough and Ranken openings book from around 1900. I have Reuben Fine's edition of Modern Chess Openings. I have an autographed copy of Winning With The King's Gambit by Gallagher. I also have Pandolfini's autograph. He put a lot of his books on ebay. My book was supposed to be autographed but wasn't. He wrote me a letter about the book ( f4 Sicilian). I will go get it and type what he wrote if anyone is interested. I had a hard time getting some books although they might not be that rare. ( Mastering The Endgame Vols 1 and 2, The Sicilian Labrynth 1 and 2, Boleslavsky's Games, Winning With The French by Uhlmann, etc. )