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I am reading Richard Reti's Modern Ideas in Chess and am loving this approach to chess strategy, namely, historical development of chess theory, illustrated by representative games of the masters. Does anyone know of any similar books they could recommend? Thanks.

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Read it twice. 🙂

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Hi.

OK sorry about my wee gag there.

Had to go and hunt out a book.

Modern Ideas in Chess is good.
Imagine what it must have been like reading that when it first came out.

Masters of the Chessboard Also by Reti is the natural follow on.

Chess from Morphy to Borvinnik is a book of that ilk.
By Imre Konig. It too is good.

Meet the Master by Euwe too is worth reading.

There are books about the evolution of Openings, Strategy and
Positional play.

Though by now you are starting to see the same old games again and again.

Lasker did play other great games apart from beating Capablana
with the exchange Lopez in St. Petersburg in 1914.*

This repeating of old games is carried on to new level by Kaparov
in the ' My Predecessors.' series.

No doubt this series will get punted by people who have only
read the Kasparov books. (or claim to have read them).

*Lasker v Capablanca.

A lot of nonsense has been written and copied about this game.

Lasker played the exchange Lopez as a psychological ploy as he
needed to win and Capa needed only a draw....blah blah blah.

Copied everywhere from one author to another.

Capa played a demo/skittles game a few weeks before the
St Petersburg game he was Black v an exchange Lopez.
He handled it badly (for him), the game was drawn.

Lasker knew of this game and walked Capa into the same variation.
It was not a psychological ploy - it was excellent home preparation.
(see the Unknown Capablanca another good book, game 17).

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
There are books about the evolution of Openings, Strategy and
Positional play.
Thanks for the recs, gp! Can you share some of the titles that deal with the evolution of strategy and positional play? Thanks.

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There is one modern book I really did like but it's title escapes me.

I got it out the Library about 6 months ago.

It's title kind of hid what the book was about. I only stumbled on
it what it was when I flicked through it.

It should have been called. The History and Evolution of
Positional Chess. Because that is what it is.

Wriiten by some foreign lad - possible a Scandinavian.
Good writer, good examples, good book.

Maybe some publisher's PR came up with the unforgetable title
I have forgotten.

I'm going to the library tomorrow - I'll see what if it's still there.

Paulmunchongladbeck (you know who I mean).

He will come on with loads of good rec's.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
The History and Evolution of
Positional Chess.
Yes! That's what I am looking for -- The History and Evolution of
Positional Chess. Do let me know if you come across the title.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Hi.

OK sorry about my wee gag there.
It doesn't sound stupid at all to read such books twice.

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"The Development of Chess Style" by Max Euwe and John Nunn (Batsford) is worth a look.

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Hi

Forgot about this thread.

Did not go to Libary today, tomorrow.

Have to thank the original poster as I'm now going through
the Konig book again. Actually settled down to go over Game 4 then
had to log back on again to post this.

Yes you should read books twice!!

I'm seeing and understanding a lot more then when I first read it.
And I've only done a couple of games.

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Hey, gp, am still waiting for that book title, whenever you get to the library. Thanks again for the other titles. Unfortunately, my county library system, which carries hundreds of chess books, does not have any of the ones you or others mentioned. Boo hoo. :-(

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Hi.

It's posted it on the latest Corner.

See I went down to Library thread....

Your library will order books for you.

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Originally posted by Mahout
"The Development of Chess Style" by Max Euwe and John Nunn (Batsford) is worth a look.
The original The Development of Chess Style by Max Euwe has a subtitle that sums up what the original poster found noteworthy in Reti's text: "The famous book that shows how the historical development of chess style parallels the development of the individual chess player."

I don't know what Nunn has done to alter Euwe's original, but Nunn is a smart fellow, so hopefully not much.

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