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Here are 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess, compiled and annotated by one of the game's most admired and respected writers. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagrammed in the clearest possible manner for players of every level of skill.
As Irving Chernev observes in the Introduction, "Who will doubt the tremendous power exerted by a Rook posted on the seventh rank after seeing Capablanca's delightfully clear-cut demonstration in Game No. 1 against Tartakower? And who will not learn a great deal about the art of handling Rook and Pawn endings (the most important endings in chess) after playing through Tarrasch's game against Thorold?"
Chernev's lively and illuminating notes on each game reveal precisely how Capablanca, Tarrasch, and other masters — Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, and Petrosian among them — turn theory into practice as they attack and maneuver to control the board. Readers will find their techniques improving with each lesson as Irving Chernev dissects winning strategies, comments on alternate tactics, and marvels at the finesse of winning play, noting at the end of his Introduction: "I might just as well have called this collection The Most Beautiful Games of Chess Ever Played."
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Publisher : Dover Publications; Reprint. edition (November 6, 1992)
Language : English
Paperback : 279 pages
ISBN-10 : 0486273024
ISBN-13 : 978-0486273020
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.59 x 0.59 x 8.46 inches
Reviewer: Ahmad
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Will bring Delight to your evenings!
Review: I am an OTB USCF A class player. I read through half the book before deciding to review it. I have had the pleasure of owning and reading through Chernev's other works, such as Logical Chess and Capablanca's 60 best games. Game collections are what you make of them. If you are expecting for chess improvement over night, look elsewhere. If however you want to go over chess games that will bring you delight in the evenings with your choice of hot coco, tea, or coffee then look no further! And ultimately if chess isn't something you enjoy, then why bother with it indeed? These aren't a collection of swashbuckling games, though indeed the game that features the Vienna sure comes to mind as being that variety. No rather these are of a more positional nature, that feature classical openings (plenty of QGD, Ruy Lopez, and Sicilians galore) by many chess giants of a bygone era (Botvinnik, Petrosian, Capablanca, Tarrasach, Tartakower, etc) written in that forgotten tongue of yester-yore known as descriptive notation. Now Chernev's comments are light and human in nature, not those of a computer engine - which makes it accessible and his prose is witty to say the least. To the modern generation, they will simply watch grandmaster's explaining their thought processes for free on youtube. But for those of us stuck to our old ways of reading physical chess books, this is worthy to add to your collection ( only if you have already read the other books in your chess library).
Reviewer: A
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Entertaining at the least
Review: I'm not the best at chess, but i'm past the point where my opponents stop donating their pieces to me. I am only 6 games into this book, and I can already tell this is going to really help me step up my decision making and strategy when approaching different phases of the game. The book is structured to give one main lesson with a ton of mini lessons as well. It literally walks you through how the winner won the game, step by step. It is written in descriptive notation, so it took me a little bit to learn how to read it but got the hang of it pretty quickly. One downside is that you need a board in front of you, or you have to be incredibly good at playing blindfolded chess, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing because if every move was diagrammed, the book itself would be absolutely massive.
Reviewer: Matthew Wall
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Classic, in Several Senses
Review: I was assigned a copy of this book by my chess tutor just under fifty years ago, and at the time I remember being happy with the "play by play" approach to the commentary Chernev takes. It was a sharp contrast to the turgid prose, presumptive air, often condescending tone of a lot of chess books of the age.The titles of each game Chernev came up with are almost little vignettes all by themselves, and set the stage for thinking about each entry. His conversational approach to analysis is something many modern writers might study and profit by.The game selection is purely Chernev's concept of a greatest hits list from his own reading and study (and experience, in a couple of cases), and if I may say, is one of a series of great American-written chess books he authored or co-authored during the post-war, pre-Fischer chess boom (such as it was). I'm having a good time reliving the games I was assigned to go through when I was ten!Why only four stars?(1) No Algebraic notation. As much as I am fine with description notation in theory, I have a hard enough time trying to forget it and stick to algebraic, so a modern updated edition would be appreciated. While I can slip back into translating things in my head like "Queen to Queens Knight 5" and flipping around to black's perspective to read "P-KB4" in the reverse direction as, it's illustrative of the reason algebraic notation finally wormed its way into American chess. I wasted a lot of brain cells translating things back and forth back in the day, and am doing so again.(2) The reprint quality is meh. The whole thing looks sort of photocopied, and the resolution of both type and diagrams suffers accordingly, and thus it's a bit difficult to read.The saving grace is it's a decently bound trade paperback, fine to hold in one hand while moving pieces around with the other. And I'm grateful it's in print.That said, this patzer was happy to acquire this again and put it back into the library. It's my old friend and if you don't know it, it will likely be your friend, too.
Reviewer: A. J. Goldsby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: For Lover's Only (Part II)
Review: This remains on of the best books that a beginner can buy. No other book teaches the ideas that are taught here, 35+ years of teaching chess to many students (some, from all round the country) confirms this fact. Nunn is too dense, he gives too many variations, a rank beginner is invariably lost trying to study these type of books. (I have heard this many times.) Nunn also is NOT a good teacher, often his books do NOT explain any of the basic ideas to the average player!A couple of weeks ago, I purchased a used copy of this book for an inmate in IL. All I can say is that he will spend many hours studying and learning from Chernev, just as I did. IF you are just starting out in chess, this remains one of the few books that you MUST own, if you are serious about really learning the game.
Reviewer: JV
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A classic on exploiting advantages.
Review: Each game has an important lesson. Most games are by top players. Learn how to exploit advantages in development or position and how to counter attacks on parts of the board. When to trade and what to keep.
Reviewer: Lexington Steel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: best chess bookI have bought
Review: Probable the most classic chess book written. Shows all the fundamentals needed to understand how the pieces can be used, especially for the end game.
Reviewer: Tero
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great games..old notation
Review: I've sort of become a fan of Chernev. Two books at least have been done in modern notation. Try Logical Chess first. Old games, but fun to play on a board. I played several on pocket chess on an airplane trip.This one is in the old notation. Bit of a struggle for most people. I cheat by just typing the opponents names and the year of the game into Google. It will give you an Internet version of the same game. You click through the moves on line. Then I just follow Chernev's comments in the book.
Reviewer: PAULO
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Livro fantástico para um primeiro contato com o xadrez dos grandes mestres. Não há muitas variantes, os lances são muito bem explicados e as partidas são muito instrutivas. Diagramação, impressão e tamanho do livro ajudam o enxadrista nos seus estudos. Não dou 5 estrelas pelo fato de o livro utilizar notação descritiva, que convenhamos: é algo no mÃnimo retrógrado.
Reviewer: Mary
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It must be good. It was great when I was a kid, and is obviously still a book to be coveted, because I leant it to a friend, and he loved it so much he ghosted me and I never got it back. Going to reorder and HORD it, once I'm paid. Top tip, buy this, play the games through on the board and don't loan it out (unless you're trying to get someone to dump you. Then it's worth it.)
Reviewer: Cédric
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: If you're searching for this book you probably know what you're in for: a good compilation of good, classical games. Some lines can feel a little outdated by modern standards but the games are undeniably very good and, more importantly, they are instructive indeed. The accent is always put on what main lesson we can learn from the game, emphasizing that even the masters of old followed the core principles often taught to beginners as well as the subtleties that make it more than a beginner's game.A word of warning though: it is written in descriptive notation. Seasonned players won't find that to be an issue, but it can throw a beginner off.
Reviewer: Placeholder
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very good chess book to read consists of 62 chess masterpieces but the problem with this book is it is not written or printed in algebraic chess notations. So only buy this book if you know old chess notations.
Reviewer: david yuan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: great book