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Summary: Top level chess - A classic!
Review: How nice it is to sit down and go over a well played game with good anotations that go beyond things like: 18.Kxe7+ Kd2 19.Re5! Nxe5?! +- and where the author doesn't explain what's going on... Bronstein is an excellent writer that did more than to keep a record of a tournament with soul-less annotations and without realizing it compiled a book that shows how difficult is the game of chess when the level is high. In these games we see more than a textbook exploitation of a good knight against a bad bishop or games where one of the players was highly cooperative with his/her counterpart allowing him/her to demonstrate a win by simple means. What we see here are games where ideas in the opening clash and where important material in the middlegame is reviewed. This book is a classic and it is by far one of the best games compilation in the market. I strongly recommend playing solitaire with these games and enjoy the game of chess with it.
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Summary: Absolutely Outstanding Book !
Review: I have owned this book for many years. However, I never really studied it until recently. I had no idea what a treasure I had right under my nose!The games are outstanding and beautiful. Bronstein's annotations are absolutely excellent. He has just the right mix of prose coupled with variations. Many of the newer works I have studied tend to get carried away with the regurgitation of variations, followed by some sign (such as +/=, =, or whatever). Bronstein's book could almost be considered a middlegame manual. I have been surprised at how many positional ideas and concepts have been brought to life by re-playing these games. I would recommend reading some middlegame books first such as Simple Chess (Stean), My system (Nimzovich), or Logical Chess Move by Move (Chernev). Then this book will be extremely useful and educational. I think that this book is best suited for players with ratings above 1300-1400 (USCF). You will not be disappointed if you buy this book.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I've bought many chess books but this book is the best one I've ever read. Whole I can say about this is book is "Magnificient". I wish I bought that long time ago. Annotations ,comments etc. everything is perfect. Maybe If there are some photographs in it it would be nicer. Bronstein without giving a lot of variations teachs us how to assess a middle game position and how to build a correct strategic plan. Chess is actually is a very difficult game to understand but he defines the different aspects of a chess game in great clarity and understandable manner . Many thanks to Great Bronstein for writing such a great book.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I've bought many chess books but this book is the best one I've ever read. Whole I can say about this is book is "Magnificient". I wish I bought that long time ago. Annotations ,comments etc. everything is perfect. Maybe If there are some photographs in it it would be nicer. Bronstein without giving a lot of variations teachs us how to assess a middle game position and how to build a correct strategic plan. Chess is actually is a very difficult game to understand but he defines the different aspects of a chess game in great clarity and understandable manner . Many thanks to Great Bronstein for writing such a great book.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: I've bought many chess books but this book is the best one I've ever read. Whole I can say about this is book is "Magnificient". I wish I had bought that long time ago. Annotations ,comments etc. everything is perfect. Maybe If there are some photographs in it it would be nicer. Bronstein without giving a lot of variations teachs us how to assess a middle game position and how to build a correct strategic plan. Chess is actually is a very difficult game to understand but he explains the different aspects of a chess game in great clarity and understandable manner . Many thanks to Great Bronstein for writing such a great book.
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Summary: More than a Tournament Book, A Middle Game Book
Review: If you were allowed to read but one book on your path to becoming a chess master, this would be it [In fact, a good friend of mine reached the 2200+ elo level having read only this chess book and Chess Life articles]. This book was written to be more than a series of annotations to the games of an excellent tournament but to be an all inclusive book on the game of chess. Focusing especially on the middle game, this book could also be entitled: David Bronstein on Chess, Using Examples from Zurich 1953. It could even be called: Middle Game Play Circa 1953. It is a truly marvelous book. Don't be stingy: Buy it!
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Less of a review. More of a thank you to David Bronstein who left us this masterpiece for generations of players to enjoy. What a tournament - what a book!
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Summary: Bronstein's admissions
Review: Many chess authorities consider this the best tournament book of all and they may be right. Bronstein, however, when asked about it noted that while he was responsible for the analysis, the text was largely written by someone named Vainstein. Mentioning that his feelings toward the Zurich tournament were mostly negative, he gave the impression that his estimate of the merits of this book were not quite so high as that of the reviewers. While it's comforting to see that this title remains readily available, I'd like to see it joined by Alekhine's efforts and Hastings 1895 perhaps.
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Summary: Excellent for intermediate players and up.
Review: Note: This is a re-translation of a book also known as "Chess Struggle in Practice". This Dover book is in Algebraic Notation; the older McKay translation is in Descriptive. (The original book is Russian.) The older book has a different translator and includes a nice intro by Max Euwe. Otherwise, this newer Dover book is just as good. It's appropriate to early-intermediate players if they are willing to skip the comments on openings. The middlegame strategies are amazingly well explained. Advanced players will appreciate the discussions of the King's- and Nimzo-Indian Defenses. Possibly one of the 10 best chess books ever. For the price and number of pages, it's an absolute bargain. Drawback: Even though it's Algebraic Notation, it's not quite standard. There are no "x"s for captures. And it's in a type-writer font. If you're not comfortable with this, you might prefer the latest version of Reshevsky's Art of Positional Play, with an attractive layout and similar required skill level. And I suggest that you read Chernev's Logical Chess and Michael Stean's Simple Chess before you tackle this book.
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Summary: Excellent for intermediate players and up.
Review: Note: This is a re-translation of a book also known as "Chess Struggle in Practice". This Dover book is in Algebraic Notation; the older McKay translation is in Descriptive. (The original book is Russian.) The older book has a different translator and includes a nice intro by Max Euwe. Otherwise, this newer Dover book is just as good. It's appropriate to early-intermediate players if they are willing to skip the comments on openings. The middlegame strategies are amazingly well explained. Advanced players will appreciate the discussions of the King's- and Nimzo-Indian Defenses. Possibly one of the 10 best chess books ever. For the price and number of pages, it's an absolute bargain. Drawback: Even though it's Algebraic Notation, it's not quite standard. There are no "x"s for captures. And it's in a type-writer font. If you're not comfortable with this, you might prefer the latest version of Reshevsky's Art of Positional Play, with an attractive layout and similar required skill level. And I suggest that you read Chernev's Logical Chess and Michael Stean's Simple Chess before you tackle this book.
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