Thanks John, that's actaully really useful to know.
Do you happen to remember which bookshop (e.g. Waterstones / Blackwells / independent)?
Have you read... The Right Way to Play Chess?
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"I still have a battered old copy of [The Right Way to Play Chess] which was one of my very first. Although it is billed as a book for beginners I tend to believe it advances rather too quickly for most newcomers to the game. What I found useful were the game annotations and the section on how to make your castled king secure, comparing different types of castled positions. This provided an early introduction to the importance of patterns and king safety." - GM Nigel Davies (2010)
Thanks K, that's another useful ref. Is it taken from a book or somewhere on this forum?
Helena_M wrote:
... Is it taken from a book or somewhere on this forum?
The quote is from the 2010 book, 10 Great Ways to Get Better at Chess. The GM Davies book is described at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708101221/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review780.pdf
By the way, you might want to check in order to make sure that GM Davies was referring to the book that you have in mind. It seems that he made a mistake about the name of the author, giving it as Konig. It appears that, at some point, an introduction and game annotations were contributed to the book by Konig.
There is a Feb. 8, 2013 review (by Macktheknife96) of The Right Way to Play Chess at chess.com .
https://www.chess.com/blog/Marktheknife96/book-review--the-right-way-to-play-chess
Hi
I'm a PhD student researching longselling nonfiction books in the UK.
Somewhat surprisingly, David Pritchard's book "The Right Way to Play Chess" first published in 1950, has come up as one of the longest selling titles that still appears in the top 1% of bestselling titles today.
I was wondering if this is a book that is well known by chess players, and if so, whether you can shed any light as to why it is so popular?
Any help would be gratefully received.
Helena