By the way, I will soon release an Endgame book. In which I recommend specific chapters in the books by Karsten Mueller, Dvoretsky, Nunn, Giddins and Marin.
Please buy it. "How to improve your endgame".
Just follow my advice, and your playing strength will raise very high indeed ;)
In the spirit of the Move By Move series, I now point out that the 2nd post above was fake, a joke. Ha ha.
I did find a lot of Logical Chess Move by Move redundant, being told 10 times why 1. e4 is a good move...
I also like the move by move books. It tells the reason why some moves are played more often, and isn't just: Learn these variations and you should have a good position. It doesn't annotate why 1: e4 (or 1: d4) is good, neither why controling the centre is important. For example in the Ruy Lopez book, it tells why Bc5 is played less than Be7, even though it's just as good. And the drawbacks (and advantages) of both moves.
In the spirit of the Move By Move series, I now point out that the 2nd post above was fake, a joke. Ha ha.
Hmm, that's odd - because the 2nd post seemed slightly more plausible than the 1st.
interesting that not every move is explained in the series.
The Move by Move are excellent. They don't even come close to explaining each move. Instead what you have is a well-annotate game which will clearly explain the ideas and themes with a question/answer format.
For example, you will be playing through a game and you will be asking something like "In this position which plan is better" and given three choices. You are encourage to analyse yourself and then a clear explanation is given as to the correct answer and why it is correct.
I own:
I can honestly say that Capablanca: Move by Move has been one of the best books I have ever read and has done more to increase my positional and strategic understanding than anything else I have ever read.
I am looking forward to the Kramnik book which I just bought.
Have you ever read one of the Everyman "Move by Move" books?
Several. E.g., Torre Attack: filled by variations, and not very pedagogic at all, I think. The English: a good book (Giddins always good), but why "move by move"?
They don't even come close to explaining each move
So why call it "move by move" then??
And, my original post was about making *another* book on strategy. Meaningless for sure.
I too am a big fan of Everyman and the move-by-move series. I have the Capablanca and the Scheveningen, and I will probably buy Kramnik and the Taimanov (has really good reviews on chesspub) soon.
In the same vein, we have enough books on history, we have enough songs about love, and we have enough forum posts about how people don't like what some publisher is doing -- all of those should stop at once as well!
Again, I can't resist bringing up this subject. The (WOW!) new Move By Move series by Everyman.
I have read Crouch's eBook "Fighting Chess: move by move". And my comment is: why "MOVE BY MOVE"??
Not a bad book, by any means; on the contrary, I quite liked it. But: this is because I know what to expect (there are free excerpts). This is a game collection, high level games from 2012, carefully annotated.
But certainly not MOVE BY MOVE. I could give you 100 examples where five, six, seven moves in a row flows by without any comment at all. Maybe you think these are trivial sequences in the games? No, I can assure you that at places there are very subtile things going on, as revealed by the chess engines.
My complain is that the title (and the entire hyped series) is nonsense.
I don't want a book, by the way, where every move is explained. That is not my point. What I don't like is the flooding of books with the same content as ever before, but packaged under new misleading titles ... "Strategy: move by move": isn't that the most redundant book in history?
Why not just call it "Game Collection 2012" or something along that path?
Also: "Fighting chess"?? As in contrast to what? "Non-fighting chess"?
When didn't the GMs fight?? Ok, sometimes there are a 15 move draw. But, come on ...
You have a point, NimzoDave - several, in fact.
you might wanna contact these guys:
editor@everymanchess.com
According to BillyBlatt, it could be that my post actually is the first ever (in the forum of chess.com) to be of zero interest to other chess players.
In contrast to other interesting topics like, "Was Fischer best ever?", "Which is you favorite first move?", "What color do you prefer on your computer chess board"
Shocking, if true.
It is interesting that the first 43(!!!) moves in McShane - Kramnik is left WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD.
Let me clarify: in, yes, the book mentioned above: the *** MOVE *** BY *** MOVE book. 43 Move By Moves = Zero comments.
By the way, Carlsen is the best player in history. Better than Fischer. And 1.e4 sucks
Do we need it? Are we so stupid, that every single move must be clarified at all times, otherwise we loose track?
Now, upcoming, "Chess Strategy Move by Move". Easily the most redundant book in history, after Nigel Davies 10 advice on how to getting better (one of which was "read a good book").
Didn't Everyman release the excellent Mastering Chess Strategy, by Hellsten? Why is ANOTHER book on the same subject needed, taking into account that 1000 books already exist on this subject.
Please, Everyman, stop flooding the market with mediocre books. NOW