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Thinkers' Chess

151 Seiten, kartoniert, Thinkers' Press, 1995

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Can your chess use some improvement? Chessco, one of the country's leading chess retailers, asked its customers to send in "interesting" games they have played to be annotated by Gerzadowicz, author of the very successful Journal of a Chess Master. Twenty six were chosen, one for each letter of the alphabet.The games were then grouped according to the following motifs: Development, On Exchanging, Pawn Play and Weak
Squares, Endings, and Attacks Good and Bad.

With his own literary style, humor and puns, Gerzadowicz delves into the intricacies of each game and offers suggestions, compliments excellent play, and offers real
tips
which will improve your game - starting now!

Adding an additional game of his own, Gerz charts this compendium of games with notes, thoughts, inspiration, and talent gleaned from the front-line field troops of Chessco and Thinkers' Press. This is real chess as it is played and understood by the real chess player - YOU!

Introduction:
How best to learn about chess? How best to teach chess? Doubtless there's no best answer.
The general "textbooks" the Nimzovitch, the Pachman, the Kotov are all fine, and probably necessary. So, too, are opening, middlegame, and endgame books. They all work if you do!
But those books are all to a degree contrived, artificial, fragmentary. And that's not a totally Bad Thing.
But I've always more enjoyed books of complete games "stories" with a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. The drama of the human struggle captures me more than any instructional text can.
But how useful is this? That can depend on the extent and depth of the notes. I went through all the old textbooks, but what I remember most enjoying and profiting from were the game collections with long and wordy annotations. Not masses of variations, but words telling you what's going on. The great old Edward Lasker books were particular early favorites. Much of Reti is good in this regard, as is Botvinnik and Bronstein's Zurich '53, and Tal on his first title match, and Cecil Purdy from Down Under. Best of all - for me - was the three-volume Grandmaster of Chess series by Paul Keres. He said it -"The notes on the various games should be, I decided, as exhaustively done as possible so as to increase the value of the book as a manual of instruction."
That's what I try to do here.
Journal of a Chess Master tended toward that approach; but with a single player's games, his style is a limiting factor. I wanted the widest possible range of games.
But where could we get these games? From Bob Long's CHESSCO customers! They've been buying his books for 25 years; about time they got into one.
When we began soliciting games, I didn't know what to expect. I hoped I wouldn't have to gussy 'em up too much to make them presentable in good company. I needn't have worried. It did not become a case of me making them look good if anything, I fear it
may be the other way around.
We did not have room to use all of the games submitted. I apologize to those whose games we left out. Many of them were the equal of the bulk of what follows, but were left out for "technical," and even arbitrary, reasons opening duplication and the like. They may appear in a second volume.
The games that follow fell into certain categories, and are grouped accordingly. But they may be played over in any order with equal benefit, and have been indexed by opening, ECO code, etc.
Keres again: "With this I hand my work over to the reader. I hope it will find welcome acceptance not only as reading for tournament players but also as a manual for the less advanced player."
Can your chess use some improvement? Chessco, one of the country's leading chess retailers, asked its customers to send in "interesting" games they have played to be annotated by Gerzadowicz, author of the very successful Journal of a Chess Master. Twenty six were chosen, one for each letter of the alphabet.The games were then grouped according to the following motifs: Development, On Exchanging, Pawn Play and Weak
Squares, Endings, and Attacks Good and Bad.

With his own literary style, humor and puns, Gerzadowicz delves into the intricacies of each game and offers suggestions, compliments excellent play, and offers real
tips
which will improve your game - starting now!

Adding an additional game of his own, Gerz charts this compendium of games with notes, thoughts, inspiration, and talent gleaned from the front-line field troops of Chessco and Thinkers' Press. This is real chess as it is played and understood by the real chess player - YOU!

Introduction:
How best to learn about chess? How best to teach chess? Doubtless there's no best answer.
The general "textbooks" - the Nimzovitch, the Pachman, the Kotov - are all fine, and probably necessary. So, too, are opening, middlegame, and endgame books. They all work - if you do!
But those books are all to a degree contrived, artificial, fragmentary. And that's not a totally Bad Thing.
But I've always more enjoyed books of complete games - "stories" with a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. The drama of the human struggle captures me more than any instructional text can.
But how useful is this? That can depend on the extent and depth of the notes. I went through all the old textbooks, but what I remember most enjoying and profiting from were the game collections with long and wordy annotations. Not masses of variations, but words telling you what's going on. The great old Edward Lasker books were particular early favorites. Much of Reti is good in this regard, as is Botvinnik and Bronstein's Zurich '53, and Tal on his first title match, and Cecil Purdy from Down Under. Best of all - for me - was the three-volume Grandmaster of Chess series by Paul Keres. He said it -"The notes on the various games should be, I decided, as exhaustively done as possible so as to increase the value of the book as a manual of instruction."
That's what I try to do here.
Journal of a Chess Master tended toward that approach; but with a single player's games, his style is a limiting factor. I wanted the widest possible range of games.
But where could we get these games? From Bob Long's CHESSCO customers! They've been buying his books for 25 years; about time they got into one.
When we began soliciting games, I didn't know what to expect. I hoped I wouldn't have to gussy 'em up too much to make them presentable in good company. I needn't have worried. It did not become a case of me making them look good - if anything, I fear it
may be the other way around.
We did not have room to use all of the games submitted. I apologize to those whose games we left out. Many of them were the equal of the bulk of what follows, but were left out for "technical," and even arbitrary, reasons - opening duplication and the like. They may appear in a second volume.
The games that follow fell into certain categories, and are grouped accordingly. But they may be played over in any order with equal benefit, and have been indexed by opening, ECO code, etc.
Keres again: "With this I hand my work over to the reader. I hope it will find welcome acceptance not only as reading for tournament players but also as a manual for the less advanced player."
Weitere Informationen
EAN 9780938650652
Gewicht 200 g
Hersteller Thinkers' Press
Breite 15,1 cm
Höhe 21,7 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
Sprache Englisch
ISBN-10 0938650653
Seiten 151
Einband kartoniert
PART I - Development
002 A Teraoka-Rea: Vienna Game
009 B Woodworth-Marconnet: Grünfeld
013 C Ives-Dennis: Pirc
018 D Hecht-Ash: Trompowsky
021 E Hilbert-Lukacs: King's Indian
027 F Tempske-Kostanski: Ponziani

PART II - On Exchanging
033 G Borchard-Hartmayer: Colle
036 H Tykodi-Gelinas: Budapest
040 I Reich-Williams: Ruy Lopez
045 J Kittsley-Pukel: Stonewall Attack

PART III - Pawn Play and Weak Squares
051 K Millett-Gumienny: Pirc
056 L Lawrence-Ziegler: English
062 M Long-Beelman: French
070 N Smith-Zintgraff: King's Indian
074 O Stroud-Hawkins: English
078 P Viens-Tucker: King's Gambit Declined

PART IV - Endings
087 Q Savage-Djuric: Ruy Lopez
095 R Lee-Colby: Sicilian
099 S Tanaka-Yarmulnik: Bird's
109 T Hanson-Lemansky: Dutch

PART V - Attacks Good and Bad
116 U Sanger-Martin: Dutch
121 V Holden-Barth: Nimzovich
129 W Capron-Dupee: Modern
135 X Probasco-Baker: Petroff
140 Y Matthaey-Johnson: Alekhine's
144 Z Herrera-Lester: Two Knight's
149 Envoi Whiteside-Gerzadowicz: Modern
152 Colophon
153 Catalog