Exeter Chess Club's library is sitting in a number of cardboard boxes in my attic. If you want to borrow any of them, please send a pigeon attached to a message in the usual way.
Some tips when choosing a Christmas gift for the chess player in your life. (An odd idea I know, but I think many of them still live with their mum. [Hello, Mum!])
The Ideas Behind Modern Chess Publishing (Gravy Train)
David Bronstein. His classic book Zurich
International Chess Tournament 1953,and the average club
player.
In 1953 David Bronstein was already a proven world class
chess player. Only two years previously - following a candidate's
playoff against his lifelong friend Isaac Boleslavski - he had
drawn a most dramatic match for the world title.
[This review has been submitted for publication in
KingPin Magazine.]
Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For The World Chess
Championship
by Mikhail Tal, trans. Hanon Russell. pub. Russell
Enterprises 1996
iv+214 pp.
What do you mean, you haven't read Tal's book of the
first match with Botvinnik? I admit I hadn't before, although I
knew it is a common choice for the top ten chess books ever
written. The book itself starts with a confession:
is not what you put in them, but what you have to leave out.
I've written a series of chess books with Tim Onions, the latest of
which will be published next week. But oh, the pain I go through
when we decide to leave out important ideas and examples. Anyhow,
if you're curious about what we might have put in if the books were a
bit longer, we have some free extra
examples.
