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Subject: Re: Chess Books

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 11:48:11 07/09/03

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On July 09, 2003 at 14:25:55, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Time has come to refresh my chess books collection and I am about to place an
>order at Amazon. Still I am a bit undecided about what books to buy. My playing
>strength is around 1700 on FICS and I am interested especially in books from
>which I can extract knowledge regarding structures/rules that can be used in a
>chess engine in evaluation. As a secondary objective I am interesting in
>improving my playing strength. For example books like "Pawn Structure Chess" by
>Andrew Soltis looks very promising.
>
>My current book list looks like this at the moment:
>
>"Modern Chess Strategy" by Ludek Pachman
>"Pawn Structure Chess" by Andrew Soltis, Andy Soltis
>"IMPROVE YOUR CHESS NOW" by Jonathan Tisdall
>"The Road to Chess Improvement" by Alex Yermolinsky
>"Fundamental Chess Endings" by Karsten Muller, Frank Lamprecht, John Nunn
>"Tactical Play: School of Chess Excellence 2" by Mark Dvoretsky
>"Strategic Play: School of Chess Excellence 3" by Mark Dvoretsky
>"Understanding Chess Move by Move" by John Nunn
>
>Could you recommend some more books that would match my goal ?
>
>Many thanks,
>Andrei

You may find the following reviews by John Watson helpful:

http://www.chess.co.uk/bookreview.html



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