Reviews

Chess Today Newspaper

July 25, 2010
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Chess Today is a daily newspaper delivered by email, it is a unique product that is a great joy to see popping into my  ’Inbox’ each day. During the stresses of the day it is stimulating to open the CT email and read through the fresh unique content that is the Chess Today PDF. A [...]

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Dismantling the Sicilian – Jesus de la Villa

July 3, 2010
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This book is a revised and updated version of Desmontados la Siciliana, which was published in Spain in 2003. I had been aware of the original for quite some time as it seemed to be held in very high esteem on several chess forums but I had been unable to obtain a copy, even from Spanish [...]

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Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch – Richard Palliser, Simon Williams, James Vigus

July 3, 2010
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From the cover blurb: “Dangerous Weapons … (will) … supply the reader with an abundance of hard-hitting ideas to revitalize his or her repertoire.” The authors have selected ten unfashionable variations in the Dutch Defence (though can anything about the Dutch be termed fashionable?), five for White and five for Black. With one exception, the [...]

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The English Opening 1 – Mihail Marin

July 2, 2010
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This book, covering 1.c4 e5, is part one of a planned two-volume work on the English Opening. Plus, although it is a hand-filling 461 pages, the book does not provide full coverage of all lines arising after 1.c4 e5. What we find here is Grandmaster Marin’s personal opening repertoire against 1…e5. The amount of material presented [...]

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Understanding Chess Endgames – John Nunn

July 1, 2010

Another entry in the “introduction to basic endgames” derby. John Nunn has identified 100 basic endgame concepts that chess players need to know. These endgame concepts range from the simplest K+P v K endgames up to Q v R endgames. All is presented in a well-laid out, nicely organized manner, complete with Nunn’s usual clear [...]

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