Six Good Books on EBAY

Not from me, I've no idea who it is.

Emms - Starting Out: The Scotch Game - paperback, practically new
Clarke - Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess - hardback, no jacket
Evans - Chess Questions Answered - hardback, no jacket
Kmoch - Pawn Power in Chess - paperback
Clarke - 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures - hardback, no jacket
Vukovic - The Chess Sacrifice - hardback, no jacket

These are 5 excellent books. (The one of the Scotch I've not read).

At the moment the bid is £8.99 + £7.50 postage but if you live
in the Birminham area you can pick them up.

At the time of this post the time left is 2 days and 13 hours.

Clarke's book on Tal is brilliant - the best book on Tal.
(worth the £8.99 alone)

His Soviet Miniatures is also very good.

The Chess Sacrifice by Vukovic is his following up to Attack in chess.

Chess Questions contains some worthwhile stuff.

And if you dont' have Pawn Power now is your chance.

A mini library.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Six-Chess-Books-/180590953144?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item2a0c0f42b8

The EBAY blurb reads

Six Chess Books. All are in very good condition, clean and tight.

Will be sent by Parcel Post, or can be picked up from Castle Vale, Birmingham B35.

Caramba!

(S)He will only ship to the UK!

That Emms book would be good if he hadn't bothered devoting the first half of it to the snore knights variation.

Is pawn power a particularly importnant book? I've seen it mentioned before, and as my pawn play is neanderthal I thought I should do a bit of study in that area.

If you don't mind the terminology it is very worthwhile.

Originally posted by witchfyndergeneral
Is pawn power a particularly importnant book? I've seen it mentioned before, and as my pawn play is neanderthal I thought I should do a bit of study in that area.

It's a bit advanced i think : better for players above 1700.

At your level i would recommend simple chess, by michael stean.
A real gem, and it's short ! 😉
Explains positional play exceptionnaly clearly. (some nice stuff about pawn play too)

A must read for players 1200-1800

http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Chess-Algebraic-Michael-Stean/dp/0486424200

Originally posted by shorbock
http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Chess-Algebraic-Michael-Stean/dp/0486424200

The first section of the Stean book is available at google books...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Dc7WN9hrwPAC&lpg=PP1&dq=simple%20chess%20michael%20stean&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false