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| From | Message | Posted by nwadvana
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1/07/2003
11:59:07
Play online chess |  Subject: Which books should i get?
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I've got a few books, namely Reassess your chess, Think like a Grandmaster and The Reassess your chess workbook. These books have helped me alot, in my overall chessplay, ultimatly improving my game to expert strength. I plan to buy a few more, however there are many out there, and i dont know which ones would be the best. I'm not too keen on getting books on openings, however the middlegame and its strategies would be a most likely consideration. Considering, that i can fully grasp the content in the above mentioned books, what should i get from there on...
All comments welcome
Thanks in advance
| Posted by atrifix
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1/07/2003
13:51:34
Play online chess | Books
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Anything by Dvoretsky is good. Most of Soltis's books (The Inner Game of Chess, Pawn Structure Chess, and The Art of Defense in Chess) are good. Vukovic's Art of Attack and Nimzowitsch's My System are classics, two of the best chess books ever. One of the best recent books is Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by Watson. Other than that, you might want to get a book on the endgames--Shereshevsky has written a few.
Hope this helps.
| Posted by tulkos
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1/07/2003
15:24:43
Play online chess | If you look at the back of Reassess your chess
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silman has given a good selection of books. I especially like Brilliancies by yasser seirawan.
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Chess grandmasters use twice the brain : Study — It may take years of hard work to become a chess grandmaster, but it gives a real boost to the brain – for working out chess problems, at least. It seems expert chess players use both sides of their brain to process chess tasks, rather than just one. Merim Bilalic at the University of Tübingen in Germany used fMRI to scan the brains of eight international chess players and eight novices while they identified either geometrical shapes or whether the pieces on a chess board were in a check situation. The expert players were quicker at solving the chess problem, activating areas on both sides of their brains as they did so. The novices used just the left side. Bilalic had expected ...
| Posted by hoss
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1/07/2003
16:37:01
Play online chess | my favorites
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my system by nimzowitch
all of silman's
chess fundementals by capablanca
and a couple of opening books are probably a must
silman has a book review page that is worth checking out
also the library has many good books usually
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Chess: The best form of defence — It may be a cliche, but in a tight spot attacking can be the best way forward. RB: Hands up those of you who plumped for 1 Rb1. There's no disgrace if you did. Peter Leko, rated 2743 when he played this game, opted for exactly that and went on to draw. It's the move I thought of when I first came across the game, in Drazen Marovic's Secrets of Positional Chess – but is it the best? After a series of miserable failures on my part, the boot's on the other foot this week – it's Dan's turn to solve the chess puzzle. DK: Black's rook has just swept down to c2 attacking the pawn on b2, and although that could be defended with 1 Rb1, my gut feeling tells me not to look at this too deeply ...
| Posted by triangulator
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1/07/2003
21:27:05
Play online chess | I agree
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with tulkos and hoss, listen to them, and the books mentioned by artrifix are good to
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America Has a New Chess Grandmaster and Three New International Masters — United States chess has rarely, if ever, had a week like the one that ended Saturday. On Saturday, four Americans earned titles at the Berkeley International chess tournament. Samuel Shankland, 19, the reigning United States Junior Champion, became a grandmaster, while Keaton Kiewra, 23, Daniel Naroditsky, 15, and Conrad Holt, 17, all qualified as international masters. Kiewra actually earned a grandmaster norm — the first of three needed for the title — but he still must raise his international rating above 2,400 to satisfy the requirements for the international master title. That is often less difficult than achieving the norms. Tatev Abrahamyan, 22 (she will be 23 on Thursday), earned ...
| Posted by brobishkin
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1/07/2003
21:51:52
Play online chess | nwadvana...
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How did you score in the Reassess your Chess Workbook?...
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China Rises, and Checkmates — If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan. Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world chess championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world. Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.” That is becoming ...
| Posted by nwadvana
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1/08/2003
11:19:17
Play online chess | brobishkin
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I havent quite completed all the tests in the workbook, however i am doing well, still working on them when i get time.
I'll be going to the bookshop to get hold of the classics, "My system" & "The art of attack in chess".
Ive heard that Lev Alburt's, Comprehesive Chess Course Series is good, volumes 3 and on. However some say, that it is complete rubbish. I'm going to check them out anyways.
Thanks for the recommendations.
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David Howell surprised at Hastings Masters by young Indians — The 2011 version of the world's longest-running annual chess tournament, kept alive and well by Hastings Borough Council, ended on Wednesday with a tense final round and an upset result. England's youngest chess grandmaster, David Howell, 20, won his first five games but then lost tamely to France's No1 seed, Romain Edouard, who became the sole leader. It seemed the European GMs would fight out first prize until the little-known young Indians surged to the front in the final two rounds in an impressive breakthrough. Deep Sengupta, 22, beat Edouard in what was voted the best game of the chess event and shared the £2,000 top award on 7/9 with Arghyadip Das, 25, while ...
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