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When was the last time you studied a chess book cover to cover?
Back around 2007, shortly before returning to chess after about 11 years out of chess I studied 30 chess books cover to cover in two months. Some were books that I had previously read. I found or created pgn files for each of them so that I could more quickly go through the games. More recently, I read a chess book from cover to cover about three days ago though this was a book with no chess moves in it. I read it on Kindle.
Circa 2008: 'Secret Notes', by David Bronstein and Sergei Voronkov, published 2007, edition Olms.
Wonderful games (many found nowhere else), great stories, some rare photos (including one of GM Bronstein, GM Fischer, and GM Olafsson together, from Mar del Plata 1960, and photos of GM Bronstein with GM Spassky. It was his last book; he had died in late 2006. Contains, among other gems: His 6-game 1971 training match with GM Korchnoi (DB 3.5 -- VK 2.5), the real, shocking back story on Zurich Candidates' 1953, and his late life travels to western Europe, with lots of friendly hospitality.
It's a very easy read, and great fun. I have found GM Bronstein's books connect to the reader better than any others I have seen.
Hah! Thanks Vlad. I thought you were joking. I recall Korchnoi saying somewhere that he considered the Hedgehog was like "Swiss Cheese". :).
Anyways, saying "Beat the Hedgehog" is kind of like saying "Beat the Sicilian", no?
Lots of courses and books on how to do just that. I just picked up a course on the Maroczy bind on Modern-chess.com.
There is no shortage of sites selling chess material..
Chessmood is kind of interesting as they had two periods of free access but they just happened to coincide with periods when I was very busy and unable to take advantage. I did watch a couple of hours and videos are quite high quality from a production sense. They do want you to sign up for their websites and I am not so sure I have the time. I just cancelled AMC+ because I hadn't watched in in a month. Probably need to cancel a few more subscriptions that I am not using.
Lots of courses and books on how to do just that.I just picked up a course on the Maroczy bind on Modern-chess.com.
There is no shortage of sites selling chess material..
Chessmood is kind of interesting as they had two periods of free access but they just happened to coincide with periods when I was very busy and unable to take advantage. I did watch a couple of hours and videos are quite high quality from a production sense. They do want you to sign up for their websites and I am not so sure I have the time. I just cancelled AMC+ because I hadn't watched in in a month. Probably need to cancel a few more subscriptions that I am not using.
Lot's of books say that, I'm sure. Anyways, I am adding the Hedgehog to my black repertoire. If you bought this book for your own use, I would love to put it to the test against you.
Of all those old books, I still enjoy reading much of Chernev's stuff. Easy on the brain
I remember reading in a chess book back in the 1970's, something like "the number of ways to play the first twelve moves of a game of chess is greater than the number of raindrops that would fall on greater Chicago in over a decade". Anyone else remember that?
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