2024 the best chess move review
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The Best Move is a collection of very hard chess problems based on actual grandmaster games. The reader is asked who has the advantage and why. Points are awarded not only for getting the answer right but for seeing deeply into the position. These problems are based primarily on the games of Grandmasters Hort and Grandmaster Jansa. These are not the typical “White to Play and Win” problems. Rather the reader is asked to decide who is better. These are very hard problems. Do not be surprised if you to not get any of them, or if you get them only by guessing.
Publisher : Ishi Press (April 9, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 4871875903
ISBN-13 : 978-4871875905
Reading age : 5 years and up
Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.58 x 8.5 inches
Reviewer: Bryan Keers
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Outstanding
Review: Floggus monkus' 2 star rating is completely unfair. Nothing he says is exactly untrue--this is clearly a cheap reproduction of the classic, and I'm sure the earlier editions were more attractive--but he overstates how obnoxious these problems really are. Yes, some of the diagrams are a bit blurry, but not so much so that any of them is a distraction. Yes, the cover is pixillated--if only there were an aphorism about judging books that related to this complaint. Basically, you have to decide what it is you're actually buying. If you're looking for a collectible addition to a serious and carefully selected chess library, by all means, track down a first edition, because this one does have some aesthetic problems. If you're looking for top-shelf instructional material that hasn't been easily available in a long time, well, you can either spend $20 on an ugly duckling with no functional problems, or $80-150 on a 30-year-old used copy that's been dog-eared and highlighted. This is a great book, and even if the Ishi reprint doesn't quite do it justice, it's still a huge boon to chess students to have this classic available on the cheap again.
Reviewer: A.M. Jacobs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Super book
Review: Anyone who wants to improve their game should have this book in their library. Very challenging. Very tough. Ideal for any serious chess player.
Reviewer: Sean Simon
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Challenging book
Review: Iâve only just begun going through this book, but Iâm already really enjoying it. I find the problems quite challenging, but Iâm getting at least part of each solution and it seems I need to follow things through a bit deeper. I think Iâm going to learn a lot with this book. I also like the format a lot. Two problems presented on each page, with the solutions directly on the back side of the next page. Itâs much better than having to go back and forth between a problem section and a separate answer section. As other have mentioned, the print is pretty low quality. I included a picture of the worst example Iâve seen. Can you see that there is a queen on c7, a bishop on h2, and a rook on f8? Admittedly this is terrible and if the entire book was like this it would be 1 star for sure. Thankfully the overwhelming majority of problems are perfectly visible (additional photo included). In flipping through most of the book I only found a few bad examples and none as bad as the one I shared. So a handful of difficult to read problems out of 230 isnât too bad, but I canât give it 5 stars because of that.
Reviewer: floggus monkus
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A terrible 1-star reprint of a classic 5-star book.
Review: This is a fantastic book of problems by Vlastamil Hort and Vlastmil Jansa - two Czech grandmasters that were strong in the 1970's and 1980's. Each problem in the book requires the reader to analyze the position and to give an assessment -- is a certain side winning, better, equal, or worse -- and to give a variation that justifies this assessment. The quality of the problems and the analysis is very high (although it was written prior to the advent of strong computer analysis). I rate the book itself 5/5 stars.I purchased a copy of this book in the 1980's. My original copy travelled with me to many countries and had been loved to death -- ultimately the binding gave out. The book was out of print for many years and I was unable to replace my damaged copy. I was delighted to see that the rights were picked up again and a new edition was published. I ordered it, opened it and was immediately disappointed.The quality of the printing of the new edition is very poor. The new edition was apparently a digital transfer of the old edition, rather than a newly typeset edition. The transfer is about as bad as anything I've ever seen. The cover has lost all the crisp detail of the original, and is marred by digital artifacts. The diagrams have lost detail and become dark and muddy. Another aspect of the printing is that the cover stock has a waxy, greasy feel to it. If you look carefully at Amazon's "Look Inside The Book" these flaws are evident. (NOTE: I will attempt to post comparison images from the original edition). I give the production values of the new edition 1/5 stars.The new edition adds a preface by Sam Stone, the new copyright holder for the text. It gives a rambling bit of history - which probably should have been proofread prior to publication-- of those involved in the making of the original book. Through Sam's view of this history, it's obvious that he loves chess and loves this book. I am baffled by why he would let it go to press in such terrible shape.
Reviewer: Robert J. Fischer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I really enjoyed the book
Review: I purchased a copy of this book in the 1980's. I really enjoyed the book, but unfortunately, it fell apart as the binding was exceptionally poor. I purchased a new copy and was saddened to discover that it also has been printed very cheaply and I expect will have the pages falling out after use as my first edition did. I also found a rambling and largely irrelevant forward by Sam Sloan which desperately needed editing to be distracting. Having said that, the problems in the book are excellent.If you are looking for a great book of difficult chess problems from actual games, you will probably find Jacob Aagaard's books in the Grandmaster series a better value for the money. The books will not disintegrate on you and the games are more recent. But if you have already worked through all of the Aagaard's books, you should buy this, despite the problems with the binding. These are not white to moves and win problems, but are similar to the types of positions you will see in actual games.
Reviewer: William Paul B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really good
Review: I had this book way back in the last century. I'm replacing a classic. For about 1600 and up.Expect to use your positional knowledge .
Reviewer: SOMACULT GmbH
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Das Buch hat mir jemand empfohlen, sehr anspruchsvoll was die Aufgaben anbelangt, nur für sehr fortgeschrittene Spieler zu empfehlen, jedoch sind viele Aufgaben nicht lösbar, da die Druckqualität dermaÃen schlecht ist, das man die Stellung überhaupt nicht erkennen kann. Nicht kaufen!
Reviewer: Ronald S Dodoo
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book is interesting and instructive but very poor quality printing some of which is difficult to read. Certainly not good value for money.