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Article #2843Re: Good Chess books
From: PMG
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:00
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Lasker's Manual Of Chess is great. I ended up finding a used copy of Logical Chess by Chernev but it's so old I'm afraid to wreck the binding! His books on: 'The Most Instrutive Games of Chess ever played' and 'Combinations, the Heart of Chess' are also 2 worthwhile books. Pete Marty Power wrote: > Speaking of Chernev, Logical Chess: Move By Move has been reprinted and is > now available. (www.chessco.com is one, www.chesscafe.com is probably > another, etc. Amazon and Borders have it coming out in June or July. Go > figure...) It's in FAN, so you won't need descriptive, but you should still > learn it. There is SO much on Dover, SO cheap. Try Lasker's Manual Of Chess. > 8.95. Great book. > > >From: Pete Galati <avoga@Chicagonet.net> > >Reply-To: avoga@Chicagonet.net > >To: info-gnu-chess@gnu.org > >Subject: Good Chess books > >Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:55:57 -0500 > > > >Anything by Irving Chernev, most are on Dover so they're cheap. You need > >to learn to read discriptive notation, but if you can't do that you > >shouldn't be playing Chess anyhows > > > >Pete > > > >Marty wrote: > > > > > I'm relatively new to the game, although I do know the moves pretty > > > well and would like recommendations regarding a good book to become a > > > bit more sophisticated in chess. Does anyone have recommendations > > > regarding something that is pretty readable? > > > > > > Marty > > > > > > > >.. > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,8f87d20bb2464262 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: PMG <avoga@Chicagonet.net> Subject: Re: Good Chess books Date: 1999/05/14 Message-ID: <373C8BFD.E9591A15@Chicagonet.net> X-Deja-AN: 477944750 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <19990514203100.53297.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news13.ispnews.com 926715032 209.186.4.111 (Fri, 14 May 1999 16:50:32 EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: avoga@Chicagonet.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:50:32 EDT Newsgroups: gnu.chess