11 Jan 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI got Capa's Chess Fundamentals a few years ago. It was an old ex-library copy that I got from a secondhand bookstore. I couldn't get into it because of the descriptive notation.
it came today and is in descriptive notation, sigh.
Recently I bought a new one. I found i can understand it much better but a bit put of by the nobody GM who adds one of his own games onto a list including Rubinstien, Tal and Kramnik.
11 Jan 10
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Originally posted by Fat LadyDescriptive shouldn't really be looked at as a problem. However, for once I agree with
That's the least of your problems with that book. You're going to have to learn a lot of chess terms which haven't been used anywhere else, before or since!
FL. You'll find this book certainly utilizes some "off the beaten path" verbage. The only
place I can recall which utilizes similar language is; Hans Berliner's "The System".
Still, desperately worth reading, and still very much worthwhile to learn descriptive
notation.
-GIN
11 Jan 10
Passer, the outside passer, the candidate passer....
I remember a few. But FL is right some are very odd.
I think the idea was to use new names to give the student a new perspective.
It's a learning term that escapes me at the moment, it's where you use a
poem of saying to remember things.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
Is the easy way to remember the fate of Henry VIII wives.
But it does explain things and has a few good illustrative games.
You will pick up something from this book
11 Jan 10
Originally posted by greenpawn34isnt our very own Motwani not into those type of things for remembering stuff?
Passer, the outside passer, the candidate passer....
I remember a few. But FL is right some are very odd.
I think the idea was to use new names to give the student a new perspective.
It's a learning term that escapes me at the moment, it's where you use a
poem of saying to remember things.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, surviv ...[text shortened]... plain things and has a few good illustrative games.
You will pick up something from this book
11 Jan 10
Yeah, I've been to a few of his lectures where he uses them.
I cannot remember any of them though.
"Now the a-pawn is connected to the b-pawn
and the b-pawn is connected to the c-pawn
and the c-pawn is connected to d-pawn.
Now here is the word of the law.
Them pawns, them pawns, them passed pawns, them pawns......"
I think that was his.
12 Jan 10
Originally posted by greenpawn34ha, guess what, my other pawn power in chess showed up today, the first one that i ordered, anyone need a copy?
Yeah, I've been to a few of his lectures where he uses them.
I cannot remember any of them though.
"Now the a-pawn is connected to the b-pawn
and the b-pawn is connected to the c-pawn
and the c-pawn is connected to d-pawn.
Now here is the word of the law.
Them pawns, them pawns, them passed pawns, them pawns......"
I think that was his.
13 Jan 10
Originally posted by joesheppeYeah, although I don't agree with the approach De Firmian took with the editing of that edition, I'd surely settle for being only a nobody GM. 🙂
Nobody GM?
Like GMs are so common. What a stupid thing to say. Only a lowass-rated turkey would say something like that. When you just get to master level, we'll still only listen to you with one ear.
13 Jan 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieHey Robbie, surely you'll want to buy a third copy? (Hehe) There's an American edition of Pawn Power in algebraic notation (although not widely distributed). And shipping might not be cheap.
ha, guess what, my other pawn power in chess showed up today, the first one that i ordered, anyone need a copy?
http://www.king-cart.com/USCFSales/product_name=Pawn+Power+in+Chess+%28Algebraic%29+-+B0002AC/exact_match=exact
13 Jan 10
Originally posted by Mad Rookdrat, its only twelve dollars, shipping from the U.S for books is not that much, pound is doing ok against weak dollar these days, thanks for the reference Rook dude! 🙂
Hey Robbie, surely you'll want to buy a third copy? (Hehe) There's an American edition of Pawn Power in algebraic notation (although not widely distributed). And shipping might not be cheap.
http://www.king-cart.com/USCFSales/product_name=Pawn+Power+in+Chess+%28Algebraic%29+-+B0002AC/exact_match=exact