No,it's not about rook endgames 🙂
Minev wrote books with 50 short games by Miles,Bronstein and Spielmann.
Lovas has the series 'the chess greats of the world' each containing 50 diagrams taken from games of the subject in question (Polgar,Topalov,Kramnik,Fischer,Morphy,Anand,Kasparov,Carlsen,Korchnoi,Leko and Capablanca) and you have to find the best move.On the next page you get the entire game.
I'd like to know if anyone here read them and what you think of them?
I like the idea of giving a complete game.
When I started playing (a long time before databases) and solved the
combinations from CHESS & BCM I longed to see the full complete game
that led to these positions.
Sometimes I would manage to track one down and it was not uncommon
to see that the combination had actually been missed in the actual game.
But why the same old top notch players?
There is an excellent chance I would have seen the Morphy, Capablanca and
Fischer combo's.
You could ask 50 under 2000 players to send in their best sound
combination and have an equally entertaining and instructive book
with fresh unseen material. (and be guarenteed at least 50 sales) 😉
Originally posted by greenpawn34Lovas' books look interesting indeed.I think I'll buy at least 1 or 2 anyway.At 5.95€ they're dirt cheap.
I like the idea of giving a complete game.
When I started playing (a long time before databases) and solved the
combinations from CHESS & BCM I longed to see the full complete game
that led to these positions.
Sometimes I would manage to track one down and it was not uncommon
to see that the combination had actually been missed in the actual ga ...[text shortened]... ning and instructive book
with fresh unseen material. (and be guarenteed at least 50 sales) 😉
Why the same old top players?
You'd have to ask Lovas but I guess it's because these names sell.
50 combinations by Baernthaler Michael,Sabranski Heinz or Bartonicek Zdenek just doesn't have that crispy sound of dollarbills.