Author: Mark Young
Date: 00:24:43 09/05/99
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On September 05, 1999 at 01:03:45, Pete Galati wrote: >On September 05, 1999 at 00:34:36, Jean wrote: > >>I am new to chess and wonder which books you feel should be in a beginners >>library and why. Thanks > >Not at all computer related but the books I'd recommend would be Irving >Chernev's "Logical Chess, move by move" & "The Most Instructive Games of Chess >ever Played". Chernev was a pioneer, all his books are good. > >And "Lasker's Manual of Chess" and Tarrasch's "The Game of Chess". Both are >classic books that explain Chess & it's concepts very well. > >I've noticed that the books that I like seam to be written by people who are >allready dead, just an observation. > >Pete I to like the classical chess books much better. Most modern books are garbage. The old masters had a much better writing flair. Todays writers such as B. P. & Y. S. and some others have little to offer the reader. IMO The above books are very good, I will add to the list The Middle Game By Fine.
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