I've bought some chess books

Originally posted by vandervelde
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Postman complained about weight.

After a few days of leafing through the books (and some reading, too) I am happy with those two:
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Nunn's "Understanding chess move by move" and Watson's "Advances after Nimtzowitsch"

And I also liked Timmans book "Art of ...[text shortened]... them to the door or at least squeeze them into the letterbox so that no one else snatches them.

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So i got Bronstein's book today. I had dreamt that I went down to the letterbox and discovered plenty of beautiful, colourful postcards from some sunny place. Then I went down and found this book. I guess the postman got tired of looking at me only in my underpants at the door...

Ok, I leafed through the book immediately.
In this famous game
Keres vs. Reshevsky
in this position

In his review of Bronstein's book Watson says this:
- that the nook lacks any description of state on the table and anythung aorund the chess tables (*which is why he favours Najdirf's work)
- and that both writers had their uncredited "Watsons" - Julio Bolbochan who seconded Najdorf and Veinstein who assisted Bronstein.

Some say that those Watsons did "70 % of all work".
If it was pure exploitation, so shame on them. 😛

If it was away to circumvent blacklist on which Veinstein was - as greenpawn indicated - so it's okay.

I think Watson's (real Watson's) criticism about B's book as dry isn't completely accurate --> there were some lines about "decisive" games who "determined final position" or - ironically - there is a description of Najdorf how he a day after the draw game approached "with typical Argentinian fervor" so as to show the wining move.

I got one more book, the last one from first shift. (no kids snatched any of them, they just traveled its mysterious ways).
This last book was "Techniques of Positional Play" - 45 methods by Crookshenk, Bronznik and Marshall Theryiakoff.
After 1 minute's leafing I found 5 examples from Zurich 1953.

The book reminded me on famous old handbook for advanced beginners "Chess School" by Tal's trainer Alexander Koblencs.

I will leave it for the end, let's say few weeks before my next OTB tournament (which I already signed in for) in November. It contains attractive cliches as "Rubinstein's exchange" "Blackburn's battery" "Capablanca's motiff" etc.
A lot of examples from Botvinnik's games.

When I began to re-form my chess library, I faced my own laziness and wish to get all knowledge digested in wonder-pills.

All of these books are good, it is now up to me if I will put decent effort and invest some time in them, so that at least I can get some confidence and memorize some positional patterns.

A world famous GM was always tormented because he didn't master music as well he wanted. He accomplished this in his later years. I probably won't do it same way with chess, I perhaps reached my limits as it is.

I think these are good books:

Karpov has authored or co-authored several books, most of which have been translated into English.

Karpov, Anatoly (1988). The Open Game in Action. Batsford. ISBN 978-0713460964.
Karpov, Anatoly (1988). The Semi-Open Game in Action. Collier. ISBN 978-0020218012.
Karpov, Anatoly (1990). The Closed Openings in Action. Collier/MacMillan. ISBN 978-0020339854.
Karpov, Anatoly (1990). The Semi-Closed Openings in Action. Collier/MacMillan. ISBN 978-0020218050.
Karpov, Anatoly (1990). Karpov on Karpov: Memoirs of a chess world champion. Liberty Publishing. ISBN 0-689-12060-5. (also a 1992 Simon & Schuster edition)
Karpov, Anatoly (1992). Beating the Grünfeld. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-6468-9.
Karpov, Anatoly (2006). Caro-Kann Defence: Advance Variation and Gambit System. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-9010-1.
Karpov, Anatoly; Henley, Ron (2007). Elista Diaries: Karpov–Kamsky, Karpov–Anand, Anand Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches. Batsford. ISBN 0-923891-97-8.

Schlechter, Karpov is great analyst, I remember I read his book from 1978ih "My best games Moji luschii partyi" in Russian. After that I was rooting for Andersson in Interzonal 1982 influenced by positional play , described in Karpov's book.

So I received Najdorf's book about Zurich yesterday.
Now I don't understand this criticism of Bronstein's book.
Neither is Bronstein to dry and incomplete in analysis noor is Najdorf too witty and extensive.
I suppose there is some insider knowledge involved, which I don't know anything about.
I think it's good thing to have both books, so as to revisit those marvelous Zurich games in a Rashomonian way so to speak.

http://textualities.net/geoff-chandler/grand-master

This article should clear Bronstein of accusation that he used Vainstein's analysis in the book.
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Most of the nice words and elegant expressions in the book overall are the work of Vainstein, who writes very well… Of course the analysis and technical concepts are mine, as are the views on my rivals, but it may be said that a large part of the text is by Vainstein. Also, it is a book for which I do not have a particular affection because it reminds me of a tournament that was very special in a negative sense. Things happened there that I should like to forget… We shall discuss that another time. I do not wish to be more specific for the moment.
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HI vandervelde,

Don't be put off because Vainstein did all the spade work. You do not have to be
a super great player to write a decent book about chess. They cannot all be
Tartakowers.

You will get enjoyment, ideas and stimulation from these books but do frequent you
chess club as much as possible. Actually playing the game. is also very good.(some
would say better).

Team with up with a chess buddy and discuss joint ideas or ask a player you would
regard as stronger to look at some of your games (pay him if need be).

Originally posted by vandervelde
Schlechter, Karpov is great analyst, I remember I read his book from 1978ih "My best games Moji luschii partyi" in Russian. After that I was rooting for Andersson in Interzonal 1982 influenced by positional play , described in Karpov's book.

So I received Najdorf's book about Zurich yesterday.
Now I don't understand this criticism of Bronstein's bo ...[text shortened]... have both books, so as to revisit those marvelous Zurich games in a Rashomonian way so to speak.

About Zurich 1953, 'Did Soviets collude?'
http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/moulcc/sovietchesscartel.pdf

So, the soviets collude againts Reshevsky in 1953