Op Twitter plaats ik minirecensies van schaakboeken die ik heb. Hieronder de recensies die ik tot nu toe geplaatst heb.
Silman – Amateurs mind Focusses on imbalances, many examples with amateur games. Good book for 1300-2000 and their trainers.
Romero/Gonzalez – Ultimate #chess strategy book. 90 multi-choice positional tests. Good training for 2000+.
Sokolov – Winning #chess middle games. “Deep analysis” interferes with “highly accessible verbal explanations”; still recommended for 1800+.
Dvoretsky – Analytical manual. Lots of high-level analysis material. Fortunately lots of text also, makes it a nice and interesting read.
Evans – Test your #chess IQ. 100 tests, positional, tactical, endgame. 6 euro at De Slegte. Nice for in the train or in bed. 1700+.
Moskalenko – Flexible French. Partly an opening book, but also a book about a grandmaster showing his love for the French defence. 1800+.
Watson – Mastering the #chess openings. Excellent explanations, helps understanding openings, the ones you play and/or new ones. 1600 to GM.
Bronstein – Zurich 1953. One of the best tournament books ever. All games analysed wit lots of text, without many variations.
Stohl – Instructive modern #chess masterpieces. 50 games with extensive analysis, both variations and text. Well done. For 1800+.
Marin – Learn from the legends. 8 chapters like. “Karpov and opposite color bishop endings”. Must buy for serious students.
Timman – Curacao 1962. Fischer, Petrosjan, Keres, Tal and other giants compete in 28 (!) rounds. Good analysis, solid tournament book.
Ehlvest – The story of a #chess player. This autobiography gives a good insight in the life of a professional Soviet chess player.
Shadade – #chess bitch. Sometimes far-saught anti-sexism, but the descriptions of people are very well written.
Shirov – Fire on the board. Shirov’s games are often interesting and enjoyable, and so is this game collection.
Karolyi – Kasparov: how his… This book is a joke, but not funny. Childish impersonation of Kasparov, dubious examples. Don’t buy this book.
Aagard/Shaw (ed.) – Experts vs the Sicilian. For every Sicilian variation an expert advise by a grandmaster. Good opening book for 1900+.
Lipnitsky – Questions of modern #chess strategy. One of the best strategy books ever, highly recommended for 1700 to GM.
Bosch (ed) – Secrets of Opening Surprises. I write for this series, so please buy it 🙂 I would if I wouldn’t receive an author copy.
VA – Dangerous weapons. Same idea as SOS, uncommon but dangerous variations. I don’t write for it, but I like it.
Tal – Tal-Botwinnik 1960. Lots of text, lots of personal background info by Tal. Reading it is experiencing it, my favourite match book!
Yermolinsky – Road to #chess development. GM view on different kind of subjects, e.g. QG exchange, very interesting for 2000+ and trainers.
Silman – Complete book of #chess strategy. A thesauris, not really his most interesting book, perhaps usable for 1200-1600.
Hertan – Forcing #chess moves. Interesting concept: calculate like a computer. But imo mainly interesting as tactical exercices, 1600-2200.
Volokitin/Brabinsky – Perfect your #chess. 359 positional/tactical tests. Good training for 2200+ and some of the solutions are beautiful.
Krabbe – #Chess curiosities. Five queens, castling at move 46, bizzare blunders, if you like to see it, read this book. I enjoyed it.
Bareev – From London to Elista. A wc contender’s second view and story is interesting, but I didn’t really like the interview style of the book.
Weteschik – Understanding #chess tactics. Book does what it promises, useful for 1300-1800 and their coaches.
Muller/Pajeken – How to play #chess endgames. Themes classification, good overview, but not very deep into the themes. 1600+
Flear – Practical endgame play. Material classification, goes deeper with many examples, 1600+.
Dvoretsky’s endgame manual. Good off course, but not recommended for under 2100, material is not easy to absorb.
Lutz – Endspiel training für die Praxis. 45 endgames with extensive analysis, good for training 2000+.
Nunn – Secrets of pawnless endings. Dry, theoretical, but the Q vs R chapter is interesting.
Nunn – Secrets of rook endings. Very theoretical, something that nowadays would be done on dvd, which is a better medium for stuff like this.
Van Perlo’s Endgame tactics. – Endgames can be fun! Lots of entertainment, good source for training exercises.
Keene/Simple – Petrosjan vs the elite. 71 analysed games, pity there is hardly any context added to it.
Lund – Rook vs two minor pieces. Mainly about two opening variations: Nc6 Catalan and Scotch endgame variation.
Tisdall – Improve your chess now. Very good book about subjects like tree of analysis. For 1800+ and their trainers.
Watson – Secrets of modern #chess strategy. The my system of the 90’s.
Aagard – Practical #chess defence. 60 pages with interesting examples, 300 challenging tests, good for 1900+.
Eingorn – Creative #chess opening preparation. Interesting read, nothing more.
Beim – How to calculate #chess tactics. Important subject, topics like the calculation tree, not the final word on it though.
Heisman – Looking for trouble. Over 200 tests based on threat and threat prevention. 1300-1800.
Emms – Survival guide to practical #chess. Issues like calculation, draw offers, time trouble; well written.
Nunn – Secrets of practical #chess. More focused on chess theory than Emms, e.g. pawn endgames, attack and defence etc.
Rowson – 7 deadly #chess sins. Brilliant book about sins like perfectionism and looseness with very fine examples.
Rowson – #Chess for zebras. Another brilliant book about training and improving, advantages of being white or being black, psychology etc.
Aagard – Excelling in technical #chess. How to win using small advantages like a better pawn structure? Nice examples, 1900+.
Grooten – #Chess strategy for club players. Highly instructive explanation of the elements of Steinitz, many diagrams, good for 1600+.
Marin – English opening vol 1. A repertoire book about 1.c4 e5 2.g3, explaining every move and still analysing deeply. Book of the year?
Cox – Berlin Wall. Not only theory but also a lot of focus on typical endings and themes, since understanding beats theory in this opening.
Franco – Counterattack! About defence and counterattacking, examples and test. Decent but nothing special.
Dvoretsky/Yusupov – Secrets of creative thinking. Collection of useful articles about subjects like calculation and decision making. 1800+.
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