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Title: The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann, Fred Reinfeld, I. A. Horowitz ISBN: 0-486-28449-2 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: Spielmann was a great combinative player from the first half of the 20th century. He played against Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Tarrasch, Rubinstein etc. In this fabulous book he explains the foundation of combinative play: deep positional understanding, and not necessarily calculation power. In practical play it is most of the times not possible to calculate all the ramifications of a "real sacrifice" (this is Spielmann's therminology for those sacrifices which do not yield an immediate check mate or recovery of the material sacrificed). In such cases the sacrifice is based on positional understanding, not calculation power. Tal used to play like this; Shirov comes to mind as another example. A classic book. For this price do not think twice: buy it!
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Book on Sacrifice...
Comment: This is not a book bean counters will enjoy to say the very least :)... If you like to throw caution to the wind and go for broke... This is a pretty good book to consider picking up and reading :)... It uses old descriptive notation so that might not go over well with some. Still just reading the words I found to be pretty enjoyable. I like how he talks about the Sham sac and some other things. For the price it is really worth thinking about getting with another book or order. The contents of the book are setup sorta interesting...
Part 1 deals with
The Various Types of Sacrifices
Sham Sacrifices, Positional Sacrifices, Sacrifices for gain and Mating Sacrifice... Then he gets into what he calls Real Sacrifices... They include Sacs for development, Obstructive Sacs, Preventing (or anti-castling) Sacs... Other sacs he gets into are Line-Clearance Sacs, Vacating Sacs, Deflecting or Decoy Sacs, (Castled) King's Field Sac and King-Hunt Sac...
Part II deals with Sacrificial Values :)...
This mostly consists of the Exchange Sac and the Queen Sac... A few examples are given for each of the listed type of sacs... So its pretty interesting how they break it up in the Contents page... This book is also 197 pages, so its pretty good value for the price. If this book might fit your style, I would think about picking it up...
Rating: 5
Summary: Keeping things simple
Comment: A superb book to streamline your thoughts about sacrificial play. This book gives you a broad framework without cluttering the general themes with a dense amount of similar examples or analyses. Although this is a relatively small book it contains more usable information for the average chessplayer than books double it's size. This gem could be used again and again to review your own games, just to make sure your sacs fit your framework to make them rational and succesful. As usual and especially with older chessbooks reading them in their original language (that's German in this case) is preferable whenever your language skills are up to it.
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Title: Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Art of Chess Combination by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky ISBN: 0486205835 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Combinations: The Heart of Chess by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0486217442 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Pawn Structure Chess (McKay Chess Library) by Andrew Soltis ISBN: 0812925297 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Reinfeld ISBN: 0879801115 Publisher: Wilshire Book Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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