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| From | Message | Posted by thumper
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10/23/2003
10:10:58
Play online chess |  Subject: Chess Books
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Well, I finally did it. I bought a chess book. :-0 It's titled 'Weapons of Chess' by NM Bruce Pandolfini. I will be going into seclusion in order to assimilate all of the strategy offered. I'm offering this up as fair warning to current and future opponents. When I slap that wicked combination on you, you can thank Bruce. >:)
| Posted by earlyrunner
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10/23/2003
13:12:28
Play online chess | Fair Warning to you too, Thumper
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No one EVER ends up buying just ONE chess book...
| Posted by wreimann
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10/28/2003
13:51:30
Play online chess | And from a certain stage
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you should start buying older books from russian GM's like Suetin, Bolelavsky, Furman etc.
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Chess Notes — Here is a product of the World Chess Cup, a game of maneuver from the fourth round in which Peter Svidler, a chess veteran and winner of the Soviet Championship five times, subdues Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany. Games that start quietly inevitably result in noisy clashes. In this game Svidler as Black develops his pieces to the third rank, depending on ultimate counter play. It is interesting that he allows Bh6 against his King side, and simply ignores the cleric. White gets no advantage from this Bishop, which is later eliminated. The critical confrontation occurs after Svidler turns to the attack with 23 f5. Naiditsch responds passively by reconnoitering his Knight. He gives up ...
| Posted by kofman2155
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10/28/2003
18:37:47
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where does one find those?
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Children 1, Astronaut 0 — In the end, the astronaut could not outwit the children. Wednesday, Greg Chamitoff, an American astronaut, resigned a long-running correspondence chess game against a group of children from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash. They had started the game in September 2008 while Chamitoff was stationed aboard the International Space Station. The game had been the idea of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Officials at the agency had asked the United States Chess Federation about having Chamitoff play a game of chess against some of the federation’s members. Stevenson was chosen as an opponent because the school ...
| Posted by sy_or_bust
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10/28/2003
19:57:01
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Please don't confuse "GM" with "Chess Author Extraordinaire". It's usually quite the contrary!
There are a lot of great books by strong players (and excellent teachers) that are directed towards class players; these are the ones you want. I'd recommend Jeremy Silman's "How to Reassess your Chess" and Watson's "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" (yes, even before Nimzowitsh).
For a player that doesn't know "what's going on", those two books are priceless...
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London Chess Classic: Kramnik's lesson in positional play — McShane-Kramnik, London 2009. Black to play. With two rounds to go in the London Chess Classic, the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen looks set to win the tournament. Vladimir Kramnik, his main rival, is in second place. In this game from round three, Kramnik displayed his refined positional understanding. RB I've been following this tournament online, but I missed this particular game, and more's the pity because I can't find a good continuation for Black. Clearly Kramnik has the better game – the two centralised knights look very threatening – but how to convert Black's positional superiority into a winning position? 1...Nxd2 2 Nxd2 doesn't lead anywhere and ...
| Posted by wizard_of_odd
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10/28/2003
22:53:02
Play online chess | A Good Book
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I found Jeremy Silman's "The Complete Book of Chess Strategy from A to Z" very helpful. It's probably not as helpful for experts and Grandmasters, but a lowly 1300 player can use the information.
;)
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Gelfand Wins World Chess Cup — Boris Gelfand of Israel is the 2009 World Cup champion. Gelfand won the title by beating Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a playoff on Monday. The first four games of the playoff were rapid games (25 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand took the lead by winning the second game. But Ponomariov, with his back to the wall, won the last rapid game to tie the match up again. The playoff then went to blitz chess (5 minutes per player per game) and Gelfand once again took the lead by beating Ponomariov in the first game when he managed to trap Ponomariov’s queen in 21 moves. Ponomariov rallied again, winning the second game. But Gelfand won the third and Ponomariov ...
| Posted by wizard_of_odd
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10/28/2003
22:53:02
Play online chess | A Good Book
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I found Jeremy Silman's "The Complete Book of Chess Strategy from A to Z" very helpful. It's probably not as helpful for experts and Grandmasters, but a lowly 1300 player can use the information.
;)
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A tragic knight — The London Chess Classic, a fabulously organized eight-player elite tournament, shaped up as a confrontation between two great chess grandmasters, the top-rated Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. By the luck of draw, they met in the first round, and Carlsen won. The Norwegian GM was still in a clear lead on Sunday with four points in five rounds, a full point ahead of Kramnik. U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura drew four games and lost one. The tournament concludes Tuesday. The Carlsen-Kramnik duel looked like a perfectly played game by the Norwegian, who took advantage of Kramnik's stranded knight. "If one piece is ...
| Posted by brucehum
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10/30/2003
19:36:46
Play online chess | Good books
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Suetin's books are very good.
Both books recommended by sy_or_bust, "How to reasess your Chess", by Silman, and "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" by Watson are wonderful, both of them are chess book masterpieces!
I personally love "The seven deadly chess sins" by Rowson, about the psychology of the game.
And, as said, you'll probably never stop with one book, and will have a bigger and bigger chess library as you advance!
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