12 Dec '10 23:08>1 edit
Hello,
I have been looking around the forum a lot and found many very exciting threads - also concerning the topic 'which book to buy'. So I hope not to bore you with this and to get some reasonable answers (this forum needs a 'best of' thread...).
Given a player, who has never a) owned nor b) looked into a book of chess nor c) played in a chess club:
Which book would you advise to get? The level of the book should not play a role, rather it should be known to you as either a classic, a must-have, an old-always neglected-yet-intriguing one or all in one. It may well be one among many and as such a start of a collection of always readable chess books.
One of the books, that you would keep for life...
Or to phrase it like this: which book would you have liked to read first, before all others (given you know the very basics of chess)? And, because I am interested, why? Which games of yours do you not like and is that, because you too often follow this route of playing?
Thanks in advance for your answer,
T.
I have been looking around the forum a lot and found many very exciting threads - also concerning the topic 'which book to buy'. So I hope not to bore you with this and to get some reasonable answers (this forum needs a 'best of' thread...).
Given a player, who has never a) owned nor b) looked into a book of chess nor c) played in a chess club:
Which book would you advise to get? The level of the book should not play a role, rather it should be known to you as either a classic, a must-have, an old-always neglected-yet-intriguing one or all in one. It may well be one among many and as such a start of a collection of always readable chess books.
One of the books, that you would keep for life...
Or to phrase it like this: which book would you have liked to read first, before all others (given you know the very basics of chess)? And, because I am interested, why? Which games of yours do you not like and is that, because you too often follow this route of playing?
Thanks in advance for your answer,
T.