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  • I need help!!!!!

    We will be traveling to Europe and my problem is what chess book to bring-it must be thin not big and bulky,I love and teach- 25 years-love the EG,studies,instructive games-I have a few contenders but I need more,I need a good one- thanks…..

  • #2
    Get a Kindle. It'll hold 10s or 100s of books and is only 1/3" thin.

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    • #3
      And on kindle the everyman books are $10 and the new in chess books are around $15 and $20.
      Last edited by Marc Andre Beaudry; Saturday, 24th June, 2023, 02:27 PM.

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      • #4
        Yes kindle is definitely your answer for travel.

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        • #5
          Thx guys,but I prefer reading physical books…

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          • #6
            Originally posted by John Henry View Post
            Thx guys,but I prefer reading physical books…
            I heartily agree John! At my age, Kindles make me feel like an allergy coming on lol

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            • #7
              I also prefer physical books but when travelling how else can you carry unlimited books in such a short space? As for book preferences you had better choose one that you get a lot of enjoyable time from. I dont know what your preferences are regarding chess but for hours and hours of pleasure I would suggest Trotsky's puzzles. Or for a relaxing read and a historical crime thriller I would suggest Ronan Bennett's Zugzwang or some of the other books I have recommended on chesstalk.
              Last edited by Hans Jung; Sunday, 25th June, 2023, 09:30 AM.

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              • #8
                I like Trotsky’s puzzle book- a consideration- 1-2 thin books on instructive chess- endgames-,lessons,are under consideration,I have time to choose,I always travel light- carry on,meeting up with dear wife in French Riveria…..

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                • #9
                  What about this one? Blindfold Endgame Visualization - 50 Chess Positions, by Martin Bonde Justesen

                  https://www.amazon.ca/Blindfold-Endg...7902827&sr=8-1

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by John Henry View Post
                    I like Trotsky’s puzzle book- a consideration- 1-2 thin books on instructive chess- endgames-,lessons,are under consideration,I have time to choose,I always travel light- carry on,meeting up with dear wife in French Riveria…..
                    Lev Davidovich Bronstein ?
                    Did he write a puzzle book ??

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by John Henry View Post
                      I like Trotsky’s puzzle book- a consideration- 1-2 thin books on instructive chess- endgames-,lessons,are under consideration,.
                      If you have never read before - Tal about his match against Botvinnik. Thin and great book.

                      Canadian flavor - The chess attacker's handbook by Song and Preotu. Though, quite dense with examples, you'll need a chessboard :)

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                      • #12
                        Canadian flavour: Lev Bronstein was interned in Canada, April 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Internment_Camp

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Ken Craft View Post
                          Canadian flavour: Lev Bronstein was interned in Canada, April 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Internment_Camp
                          Thanks for that, Ken. I learned something new.
                          "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
                          "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
                          "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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                          • #14
                            Lev Davidovich Bronstein was the original birth name of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik revolutionary cohort of Lenin and Stalin. This is NOT the same person as the endgame composer Troitsky.

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