Author: margolies,marc
Date: 22:44:56 11/22/03
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this is no longer a computer chess thread. but I have advice for Russ Reagan: If you are not sure what master games to study, then start with classical chess because you cannot understand the new without reading the old. I suppose Kasparov's new book is good for this but I do not think that I will read it for a while. My specific recomendation is to find a copy of MCO-6, the edition that reuben fine wrote in 1939. It is small and easy to memorize. Look at the classical citations here because they are great strategical games which are not named as citations in the modern MCO-14 because they are not significant to current theory. But once you go through some of these ancient citations in your database, reading MCO-14 is very easy. You will definitely feel the evolution of opening theory-- that is how I understand move-by move without the Nunn explanations. I think Nunn's annotations of his own games are simply amazing <<grandmaster secrets blah blah blah or some such title>>, but the rest of his stuff puts me to sleep. On November 22, 2003 at 23:47:38, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 22, 2003 at 20:04:02, Dan Andersson wrote: > >> The Nunn books 'Understanding Chess Move by Move.', 'Secrets of Grandmaster >>Chess.' and 'Secrets of Practical Chess.'. The two Watson modern chess books. >>And the 'Winning Chess' series by GM Yasser Seirawan with Jeremy Silman. Are >>incredibly useful books. Those who want to begin studying chess should first >>read the 'Winning Chess' books followed by Nunn, Watson and Yermolinsky. >> The two Dorfman books I am of two minds about. They are very categorical but >>Dorfman is one of the greatest chess coaches. > >Is the other Watson book Chess Strategy in Action? Does your Yermolinsky >recommendation include more than The Road to Chess Improvement? > >Where do books on specifics fit into this course of study? For instance, >Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Muller is one book that I haven't gotten >yet that comes highly recommended. I'm sure there are others which touch on a >specific topic that you might recommend (opening, tactics, pawn structure, >attacking the king, or whatever). Would they come after completing your above >mentioned course of study? > >Lastly, where does studying games fit into your plan? Any recommendations about >what kind of games to study, whose games to study, or in what order master games >should be studied?
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