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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