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 the greatest chess player ever to walk the face of the earthwww.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com and the interview;www.youtube.com |
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he is dead.Died in 1946 |
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clue. . . www.chessgames.com |
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Alekhine also a matter of playing the game, I know I was a far better player at 11 years old than I am now, but its only in the last year I have got back into the game and its amazing how much you forget. Chess for me is like maths you need to keep practising if you wish to master it. I prefer to study through my own personal experience in the game rather than by reading books but appreciate with this approach I will unlikely break the 1600 mark. |
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7 books for chris who doesn't want to read chess books like your checkmate of cristi_202 (  game ), then rated 400 points above you. It was Bobby Fisher who said chess was like boxing: It's knowing when to punch and how to duck. And now I try to imagine prize-fighter Muhammad Ali ever telling his long-time trainer Angelo Dundee: No, Angelo, I don't want to be taught anything, I just want to learn to fight by fighting. OK Chris, you don't want to grow by reading about chess, you want to grow by playing chess, and that Is where the learning crystallizes. Yet, there actually are some chess Books that are elucidating as well as entertaining. Top of the list for you, Chris, might be: THE MODERN CHESS SELF-TUTOR by David Bronstein (not to be confused with Leon Trotsky!) CHESS, THE ART OF LOGICAL THINKING (move by move enlightenment) by Neil McDonald CHESS FOR ZEBRAS, a treasure-house of cognitive constructs, by the brilliant Scotsman, Jonathan Rowson ("The only thing you lean by losing is, how to lose.") -- it's a book recommended to me by Graham Burgess THE MIDDLE-GAME IN CHESS by Eugene Znovsko-Borovsky -- written in Paris during its World War Two occupation by the German Army -- and it shows (<<"It should be the motto of the defender not to submit to the will of the attacker, but to escape his grip. Hence the necessity of forever being on the look-out for chances of counter-attack. ">> PLANNING IN CHESS -- slim as a pamphlet, sharp as a razor -- by Janos Flesch, the grandmaster who taught that sideways moves are harder to see simply because we have eyes in the front of our head, not the sides, and life has us looking forewards, not sideways (!) THE SEARCH FOR THE MONA LISA by Ukrainian GM Eduard Gufeld (you have to read that story of how he sacrificed a team game to win a girl) & especially for you: FOUNDATIONS OF CHESS STRATEGY: Applying Business Methods to Chess, by Lars Bo Hansen Learn -- enjoy -- and let your insight, your competitive strength, your confidence, and your pleasure in the game, all grow |
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references Great advice about the ducking and weaving. I have read Sun Tzu so know a little about scouting. Neil McDonald, Jonathan Rowson and Bo Hansen stand out for me as starting points. The one thing I know about my game is I am far to impulsive and need to learn to sit on my hands more study the board before making moves. I am not playing past 2 to 3 moves ahead at the moment when I was a kid I could play 7 moves ahead. I continue to practice a wide variety of openings I am finding 2 or 3 that I am getting comfortable with. I know there is a lot of pleasure in playing well I need to have the patience to improve. Thanks for transferring on your insights it is both valued and appreciated. I am also really enjoying the Shaka Zulu series. Chris |
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