Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:40:03 05/06/04
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On May 05, 2004 at 08:52:46, Mike Byrne wrote: >On May 05, 2004 at 07:51:09, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On May 05, 2004 at 07:15:53, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>"Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, part 3" is now available for >>>pre-order >>> >>>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857443713/102-1546867-2454501?%5Fencoding=UTF8 >>> >>> >>>I am pretty sure the books are ghost written, nonetheless, I have enjoyed them >>>as each page turn contains 3 to 4 diagrams - many interesting positions to train >>>your computer chess program on. Your charge card is not charged until it is >>>shipped. I'm sure other bookstores will let you preorder as well. I just use >>>the Amazon link because that is where I ordered it from. YMMV >> >>I think Kasparov's My Great Predecessors is not of much use to anyone below >>grandmaster level. > >Disagree totally - it does provide a nice history of the Chess World >Championships and the players. I think it a good book for chess players of all >ranges. If anything, somereviewers have detected flaws in some of the analysis >that may make the analysis less benficial to GM as opposed tothe rest of us >mortals. Search "goldsby chess reviews" on google to find in-depth reviews and >critiques on chess books including Kasparov's books > >http://www.geocities.com/lifemasteraj/ like you, i disagree with omid that this book is of no use for anyone except GMs too, of course, because it's worth reading just for the historic context of the game alone. but i also disagree completely with what you say: the analytical flaws are of absolutely no matter at all. what you really would want to see is kasparov's approach to chess, his comments on some chess positions, why he thinks that a position is good/bad/equal. that is where he knows much more than you. the tactical errors in the analysis are rather irrelevant because you can find them with fritz. the problem with fritz is it can never ever teach you all these things kasparov could. so you need him to talk about the positional aspects, not the tactics. BTW: we are already calling tactical blunders "fritzfehler" (fritz-mistake) here in zürich - with the implication that these just happen to us humans. if you make a fritzfehler, you can't really help it, everybody makes them now and then. the big mistakes are those where you make a bad positional judgement, e.g. move a pawn leaving holes in your position, exchanging the wrong pieces etc. these, you can learn to avoid. cheers martin > >> >If you want good tactical analysis, you have many chess >>programs for that. I would expect a book to contain more ideas and strategies >>rather than pure tactical analysis...
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