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Re: Good Chess books

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From: PMG
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
> >
> >
> >
> >..
> >
> >
>
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