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Title: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder, Bobby Fischer ISBN: 0-553-26315-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1982 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (112 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Comment: I highly recommend this book for the novice to intermediate chess player like myself. I'm just getting started and found this book highly entertaining. Each page has another puzzle. How would you check mate here?? What is whites best move here? Draw an arrow to show blacks next move!! It's a chess workbook, and, it was written by Bobby Fischer, which makes it even more interesting and fun. Most chess books are dry and hard for me to read, this book however was the kind of book that I enjoyed picking up for 5 minutes or 50 minutes, and then put down till next time. I really believe that it helped me see the board a little differently now and has improved my chess. Of course I have along way to go. From a novice point of view, it was a great book. I have recommended it to several parents wanting to get their children interested in chess. Just the fact that Bobby Fischer wrote the first print in 1965 gives you a great feeling when you read it. Many of the problems are hard, but with a little thinking and effort you can figure them out. The answers are always on the following page. It's great.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! But not if you can't use the knowledge yet...
Comment: This is a great, wonderful, renowned book, which I am about to read for the second time. It is far and away the easiest-to-read-and-understand book on chess I've ever come across.
One big word of warning though: if you have no concept of positional play, this book probably won't help your game too much. When I first read this book, I knew absolutely nothing about chess strategy. After reading this book, I understood checkmating combinations much much much better -- but I never got there! My game was already lost before I got anywhere near being able to exercise the knowledge I had learned.
The focus on this book is almost exclusively on checkmating. If you are a total beginner and your primarily goal is to improve your game, I recommend a mid-game book first. Two excellent examples are "My System" by Aron Nimzowisch (a bit outdated, but very nice and possibly the second-easiest-to-understand book on chess) and "How To Reassess Your Chess" by Jerry Silman.
Even if you don't know basic strategic principles, this is still a really fun book -- it just might not help your game that much. But if you already know what a passed pawn and an open file is (believe or not, I didn't when I first read this book!) then this book will be both enjoyable and incredibly useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good book for a good price
Comment: If you're a beginner, reading this book will likely cause your rating to go up a few hundred points. It did for me when I was just starting out. Even if you're an experienced player you could benefit from this book, you may not learn alot of new things but it's good and easy practice.
Some folks might be drawn to this book because of the Fischer connection, but I think the reason the book stays successful is because it's great for what it is. I can attribute quite a few wins to the book that involved back-rank checkmates that I may not have seen otherwise.
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess (2nd Edition) by Patrick Wolff ISBN: 0028641825 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Chess Fundamentals (Algebraic) by Jose Capablanca ISBN: 1857440730 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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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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Title: Ideas Behind the Chess Openings : Algebraic Edition by Reuben Fine ISBN: 0812917561 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 22 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Chessmaster 9000 ASIN: B00006663Z Publisher: UBI Soft Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.99 |
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