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Postman complained about weight.
After a few days of leafing through the books (and some reading, too) I am happy with those two:
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Nunn's "Understanding chess move by move" and Watson's "Advances after Nimtzowitsch"
And I also liked Timmans book "Art of analysis".
Nunn and Timman are both honest as players and analysts.
I think I could learn something from those pieces.
I got also Silman's "Complete Chess Strategy" and Mednis' "From Middlegame into to Endgame".
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Silman's book is pretty "thin", too much empty space and commonplaces.
Mednis' book is so-so, too much of his own examples (in which he "amazingly" did well ha ha), which "corroborates" the chapter's title (for example HOW TO DRAW INFERIOR ENDGAME), but it's nonsense. His analysis is honest, though, but I don't think I can drew something on this book.
And today I found another book in my letterbox (postman obviously got tired of previous packages so he just pushed the book in the box) - "Grandmaster Chess Strategy - what amateurs can learn from Ulf Andersson's positional masterpeices.
Great disappointment. I should have smelled the rat from authors' names - Jurgen and Guido, as Abbott and Costello - but I was hooked on Andersson's name of course.
I was hoping to gind some deep analysis in style of Timamn or Nunn, move by move, but instead, for example only such lines
"better is 37...Bxf4 [imagine now a sign from Chess Informant], and weaker is 37...Bf8 [imagine again a sign from Chess Informant]".
They probably put the FEN position in engine and got results.
And if the chapter's title is for example "Catalan endgame" or "Minor piece endgame", there is no analysis of the whole game, just first 30-40 moves with no comments, and then some conventional, stereotypical comments which means nothing.
But at least I got a decent (?) collection of Andersson's games, many of which I recognized from "Croatian Chess Messenger" I used to be subscribed in 1980's.
Those Abbott and Costello should be sued by Ulf and pay him decent fee.
I am expecting two more books any time soon, I hope postman will be nice to deliver them to the door or at least squeeze them into the letterbox so that no one else snatches them.
Postman complained about weight.
After a few days of leafing through the books (and some reading, too) I am happy with those two:
http://s15.postimg.org/3jny5qjdn/IMG_4522.jpg
Nunn's "Understanding chess move by move" and Watson's "Advances after Nimtzowitsch"
And I also liked Timmans book "Art of analysis".
Nunn and Timman are both honest as players and analysts.
I think I could learn something from those pieces.
I got also Silman's "Complete Chess Strategy" and Mednis' "From Middlegame into to Endgame".
http://s15.postimg.org/z77sw2v17/IMG_4523.jpg
http://s15.postimg.org/6rsfis5nf/IMG_4524.jpg
Silman's book is pretty "thin", too much empty space and commonplaces.
Mednis' book is so-so, too much of his own examples (in which he "amazingly" did well ha ha), which "corroborates" the chapter's title (for example HOW TO DRAW INFERIOR ENDGAME), but it's nonsense. His analysis is honest, though, but I don't think I can drew something on this book.
And today I found another book in my letterbox (postman obviously got tired of previous packages so he just pushed the book in the box) - "Grandmaster Chess Strategy - what amateurs can learn from Ulf Andersson's positional masterpeices.
Great disappointment. I should have smelled the rat from authors' names - Jurgen and Guido, as Abbott and Costello - but I was hooked on Andersson's name of course.
I was hoping to gind some deep analysis in style of Timamn or Nunn, move by move, but instead, for example only such lines
"better is 37...Bxf4 [imagine now a sign from Chess Informant], and weaker is 37...Bf8 [imagine again a sign from Chess Informant]".
They probably put the FEN position in engine and got results.
And if the chapter's title is for example "Catalan endgame" or "Minor piece endgame", there is no analysis of the whole game, just first 30-40 moves with no comments, and then some conventional, stereotypical comments which means nothing.
But at least I got a decent (?) collection of Andersson's games, many of which I recognized from "Croatian Chess Messenger" I used to be subscribed in 1980's.
Those Abbott and Costello should be sued by Ulf and pay him decent fee.
I am expecting two more books any time soon, I hope postman will be nice to deliver them to the door or at least squeeze them into the letterbox so that no one else snatches them.