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An Ode to Chess Art
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Oct 13, 2021
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Can’t read Serb (heck I don’t even know Spanish and half my neighbors speak Spanish as a first language!) but those are wonderfully beautiful covers. I think when a publisher creates a chess book that is a work of art in itself, he shows respect for chess as an art. Too many English language chess books have functional covers. That is very pragmatic—but life is about more than functionality.
Flickas wrote:
Can’t read Serb (heck I don’t even know Spanish and half my neighbors speak Spanish as a first language!) but those are wonderfully beautiful covers. I think when a publisher creates a chess book that is a work of art in itself, he shows respect for chess as an art. Too many English language chess books have functional covers. That is very pragmatic—but life is about more than functionality.
Doug, fully agreed
Tal, the risk-taker, in the role of torrero (from Ivkov's An Ode to Art of Chess)
RoaringPawn wrote:
Just treated myself with two fascinating books by the Serbian chess legends,
GM Borislav Bora Ivkov (b. 1933, the first World Junior Champion in 1950), My Sixty Years in Chess: An Ode to the Art of Chess,
GM Bozidar Bonja Ivanovic (b. 1946, "Montenegrin Tal", Botvinnik) Play Your Life
Someday I, too, will be able to open my chess books with game collections of specific strong players.
Just treated myself with two fascinating books by the Serbian chess legends,
GM Borislav Bora Ivkov (b. 1933, the first World Junior Champion in 1950), My Sixty Years in Chess: An Ode to the Art of Chess,
GM Bozidar Bonja Ivanovic (b. 1946, "Montenegrin Tal", Botvinnik) Play Your Life