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Title: Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein ISBN: 0-486-23800-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The battle is lost, Bronstein won "Best Annotator"
Comment: The whisperings of my fellow players at the club, as if to hide a secret, first clued me in to this book. Sure, I thought, they want to keep the secrets of their success from me, so I listened in a little harder (I promptly lost the game I was playing!) and was able to catch "1953" and "Zurich". Amazon.com was my next stop. I typed in 1953, Zurich and Chess. The outcome? This extraordinary book. I'd spied it before at various bookstores but never thought once to browse through it, after all, who would be interested in some tournament which took place in Zurich in 1953? And who in the world was Bronstein? I soon found out: Bronstein was a very strong contender for the world championship in his day and a brilliant annotator. 1953 in Zurich saw the occurrence of a candidates' tournament which featured the strongest competitors of that era (Smyslov, Najdorf Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, Geller, Kotov, Taimanov, Averbakh, Boleslavsky, Szabo, Gligoric, Euwe, Stahlberg and Bronstein) all vying for the chance to play for the world championship! Smyslov triumphed this time around and Bronstein (who came in second along with Keres and Reshevsky) was persuaded to annotate the book of the tournament. After reading and playing through the first game, I knew I had a treasure on my hands and why my fellow players did not want anyone else to find it. It's a jewel...find it, read it and try to keep it from your rivals because it'll only make your competition stronger, as my Chess pals found out the next time I played them!
Rating: 5
Summary: More than a Tournament Book, A Middle Game Book
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: my best chess book
Comment: this book is my favorite chess book. it's very exciting (unlike some chess books) and the games are great. brontein is probably my favorite author too and i really like the way he explains things. even a beginner like me could suddenly understand things i though i never would.
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Title: Art of Attack: Rev. Algebraic Ed. by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Life & Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal ISBN: 1857442024 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 by Mikhail Tal, Al Lawrence ISBN: 1888690089 Publisher: Russell Enterprises, Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis ISBN: 0812925297 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 14 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0713484640 Publisher: Batsford Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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