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| From | Message | Posted by derouin
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3/31/2003
16:39:52
Play online chess |  Subject: Great Chess Book!
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Hello everyone. This post is for the beginners/indermediate chess players out there.
I bought a book called:
'How To Win in The Chess Openings'
by I.A. Horowitz
3 times USA Open Champ; former chess editor of the New York Times.
It has/is helping me greatly improve my game.
Instead of presenting TONS of openings to memorize, (which may be great for someone more advanced than me, but I am not advanced) Horowitz goes into great detail about the principles of opening play, and he presents about 9 openings in great detail.
Fantastic book!
| Posted by silverwolfwsc
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4/01/2003
07:58:05
Play online chess | how are the moves
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annotated?
| Posted by drgandalf
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4/01/2003
14:34:07
Play online chess | I am glad
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you are improving your chess through this book. Horowitz was one of the premiere American chess authors in his day. His writings are in descriptive notation (P-K4).
At your level of current play, you may wish to become solid in your endings knowledge. Most authors overload the student at your level with too much content. I have written a book, Practical Endgame Weapons, Volume One, which gives the absolute basics for practical chess up to about 1400 rating. The book goes in great detail in explaining each "landmark" in the ending, and provides the student with memory devises to help in actual games.
I would think the Horowitz book and my book together would provide you with the capacity to rise to 1400 in a year's time.
Contact me for more details.
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Carlsen Wins King's Chess Tournament by Wide Margin — The Kings Chess Tournament in Romania ended Friday with a bang, not a whimper, as Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the top seed, won the chess event with one of the most impressive performances of his short career. He finished with 7.5 points, two more than Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Boris Gelfand of Israel. Gelfand had trailed by one point before the last round, but he lost to Radjabov, while Carlsen beat Wang Yue of China. Wang ended up in last place with 3 points. It was a strange last round as Black won all three games. Over all, there were more wins with Black in the tournament (8) than with White (7). Though Carlsen, the world’s top ranked chess player, has ...
Posted by derouin
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4/01/2003
17:12:03
Play online chess | drgandalf
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Yes that descriptive notation is quite different than the notation that I see everywhere else.
Is it the case that descriptive notation is an old style and algebraic (I think that is what it is called) notation is modern?
Nevertheless, I LOVE the book! GREAT instruction. I like reading about theory rather than memorizing lines (obviously an advanced player would be the reverse).
Anyway, drgandalf I will send you a message in regards to your book!
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Carlsen Secures at Least a Tie for First at King’s Chess Tournament — All three games were drawn in the penultimate round of the King’s Chess Tournament in Romania on Thursday, which assures Magnus Carlsen, the top seed, of at least a share of the title. Carlsen now leads with 6.5 points, one point ahead of Boris Gelfand of Israel and two points ahead of Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan. None of the games on Thursday was a barn burner, though Carlsen’s opponent, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania did employ a surprising chess opening: the Schliemann Defense. The Schliemann, which was first used in the 19th century, is almost never played anymore, particularly in top-level competition as the conventional thinking is that White can almost always get ...
Posted by macheide
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4/02/2003
08:45:13
Play online chess | derouin
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Dear friend,
I am going to recommend you only two more books, just to begin, but if you study them your Chess level is going to grow:
a) "Logical Chess, Move by Move" by Irving Chernev.
b) "Combinations: The Heart of Chess" by Irving Chernev too.
You can buy them in amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com or bestbuy.com
Hopefuly you enjoy them.
Regards,
macheide.
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The Catalan chess opening: what would Topalov do? — The Bulgarian is an aggressive chess player. But the Catalan doesn't bring about a quick victory. RB When you see that the chess player with the move is Topalov you immediately start thinking tactics – quiet, careful improvement is not the Bulgarian's style. So, using the player's identity as a clue, and with an additional hint provided by the absence of a knight on f6, my eye is immediately drawn to 1 Ng5, with the twin threats of 2 Qxh7 mate and 2 Bxb7. Let's have a look at how Black might counter: 1...g6 might not be as bad as it first appears. After 2 Bxb7 Rb8 both the bishop and knight are en prise. Here I would be tempted to ...
Posted by derouin
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4/02/2003
21:29:05
Play online chess | Thanks!
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Thanks! I most definetely want to keep the books to a minimum!
When I was younger I got TONS of judo books-- you just have to do it! Now that I'm older I just do it, and do it, etc. Kinda like chess, but books are necessary I think for rapid improvement.
I'm going to get drgndalf's book and I'll check out the other two! The Combinations book sounds most useful!
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Chess Hustling, a Look Back — Part of the fabric of night life in New York City, particularly during the summer, are the street chess games. Dozens of chess players in places like Washington Square Park, Union Square and St. Nicholas Avenue and 141st Street are up all night, taking on all comers, for a few dollars a game. The games are fast and gritty and often peppered with non-stop and colorful banter. Chess hustling has been around for many years, but how and when did it begin? In 2007, a hustler named Kenny, who went by the name Little Daddy, and who had been hustling on the street for decades, said that the guy who started it all was a man named Bobby Haywood. He said that Haywood appeared one day in ...
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