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Summary: Understanding Chess Move By Move revisited!
Review: Deep annotations of 33 master games of chess explaining the logic behind each move with lots of words instead of variations. Easy to follow for just about everyone. Teaches about piece development, chess strategy and positional technique by example. Money well spent. Has a lot of e4,e5 games and queens gambit games. Has openings such as the Guioco Piano, Kings Gambit, Ruy Lopez, French and Queens Gambit Accepted and Declined. Another good book is Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn which is similar in style to this book. This book is good for any one rated from under 1000 up to expert strength.
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Summary: Best Chess Book Ever Written for Beg. to Intermediate
Review: This book was recommended to me many years ago by a man who owned a chess book store. I was not disappointed - I read and re-read this book 2 or 3 times and my rating improved dramatically.Beginner and intermediate players get overly fascinated by studying openings. unfortunately, they typically have no idea what is going on, or why a certain move is made. Therefore, all the time they spent working on the openings is esentially wasted. One of the very best ways to improve your level of chess play, is to study well annotated master games. This approach exposes you to all phases of the game (opening, middlegame, endgame) and gives you a basis to evaluate positions and form plans. This book is simply one of the best books ever written for players rated up to about 1500 USCF. Chernev wrote sort of a sequel to this book entitled "The most instructive games of chess ever played". I recommend reading this book as well for further reinforcement of ideas. Buy this book - you will NOT be disappointed!
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Summary: Good games with analysis - Ranked #2 Game Collection Book
Review: REVIEW by a 12 year old tournament player from Lincoln, NE
This is in my opinion the second best book for beginning or intermediate players that provides detailed analysis of an excellect collection of games.
Strong Points: The games selected for the anaysis are excellent. Every move has a comment on it. The analysis is fairly accurate.
Weak Points: Coverage of the openings is outdated. The book tends to repeat itself to much (i.e. whenever 1 e4 is covered the author must find some way of saying something about this first move, over and over again, and after about the 3rd time 1 e4 appears in a game you can tell it is just filler instead of something contructive - the author should have stated that once a move is covered in an earlyer game that it will not need to be repeated again).
I rank "Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors" (Snyder, Random House, 2003) as the #1 best game collection book. It has all of the good points of this book without the weaknesses and is writen more clearly.
I would recommend buying both this and "Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors" together (even if you are an adult!).
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Summary: 5 stars is not enough
Review: Is this book good or am i just prejudiced with happy memories? i read it when i was 14 years old (around but slightly below 1200) and improved my play by at least 25%. However i would not recomend this book to anybody above 1300 (not because he won't learn anything from it, on the contrary he will) but becuase the explanation of every single move can be too basic.
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Summary: Openings need updating but still a good book
Review: A classic work covering the ideas behind every single move. It does a good job of covering general ideas in the opening, however the opening coverage needs to be updated. The book's strongest point is coverage of the middlegame. The book was written at an adult reading level, however teenagers would be fine with it. I enjoyed "Unbeatable Chess Lessons For Juniors" more than this book, which is up to date on the openings, and written in clearer language. I could easily recommend getting these two books together!
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Summary: Good beginner's book
Review: This is a good book for beginners after they learn how the pieces move. What it covers is very basic. It is nice that it gives a move by move explanation of what is going on. It doesn't really do a good job covering what an intermediate player needs to know.
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Summary: Good book for Beginners
Review: I found this book to be perfect for a beginner. It explains why every move is made. It is not for an Intermediate player because it is too basic for that. After learning how the pieces move and learning the most basic parts of strategy this book would be recommended.
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Summary: Good, but not the best book of its type
Review: The idea of explaining the idea behind every move is a good. I wish that more books would do this for the Beginning and Intermediate level chessplayer.
There are several problems with this book; 1) The book is overly repetitous - it should spend more time going into new ideas, and 2) It often would not answer the questions I had about a move or what was going on it the game, and 3) The coverage of the openings is a bit dated. However, overall I can still recommend this book.
This book does not compare in quality to my favorite book, "Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors" which just recently came out.
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Summary: Beginner Book
Review: It really is a beginner book,it help people to become intermediate player.Simple english to let u to understand !!
I rate the book 5 stars,because it's excellent for beginner,not for intermediate player !
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Summary: Connecting the dots
Review: This was not the second chess book I purchased, but it should have been. Instead, I bought books on openings and strategy - a big mistake. I think chess books come in three varieties.
1. Introductory overviews (how the pieces move, notation, etc.)
2. Annotated games
3. Specialized topics (strategy, tactics, openings, middlegame, etc.) A good annotated game book connects the dots. It shows how all of the specialized topics work together in real games. By explaining every move, Chernev shows the beginner how to:
1. Control the center in the opening
2. Develop pieces with purpose
3. Use your pieces together to gain material
4. How to finish the "won game" These are foundations that will help all beginners. Yes, the book is repetitive, but the repetition does drive home the point. Now, with algebraic notation - it is even better. For these reasons, I give it 5 stars.
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