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Subject: Re: CHESS EXPERTS! Isn't this the best book ever written...........

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 23:14:41 04/05/03

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On April 05, 2003 at 20:55:40, Dan Andersson wrote:

> It's a great book. But some other modern mastepieces exist. From my collection:
>Secrets of Grandmaster Chess and Secrets of Practical Chess by Nunn.
>Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by Watson.
>The Road to Chess Improvements by Yermolinsky.
>64 Great Chess Games: Masterpieces of Postal and Email Chess by Tim Harding.
>The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonathan Rowson.
>And modern well annotated monographies of the games of Steinitz, Lasker and
>Capablanca. They were great players who knew how to fight. And the biogaphical
>series from the Leningrad Chess School edited by Khalifman.

In my opinion the best modern (as in post Fischer) chess book is The Art of
Chess Analysis by Jan Timman.

At a lower level an underrated but fantastic book is Simple Chess by Stean.

Peter

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>MvH Dan Andersson



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