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Title: Winning Chess by Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0-671-21114-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The single most valuable book on chess I have read
Comment: Just a casual, occasional player, so take my opinion as you will...but this book probably taught me more than every other book I have consulted on chess, _combined_. It is utterly invaluable for teaching the application of the critical chess tactics: from pins and forks to double check. I can't believe it's listed as out of print--a great loss to beginning players everywhere. Find this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book on Chess Tactics Ever Written!!
Comment: Chernev and Reinfeld's book is the best tool available to significantly improve one's chess ability. I first found it over 25 years ago and it revolutionized my game. It is the book I use as the basis for teaching young people how to play chess. The value of the book is hidden in the simple fact that each tactic is clearly explained and demonstrated. The reader then gets to play through a number of different situations to reinforce the specific tactic. Each chapter builds upon another. The book's strength is its simplicity and singular focus. To top off the book's brilliance, position # 263 shows the reader how Frank Marshall made the most brilliant move in the history of chess!! If you desire to greatly improve your chess playing ability--this is the book. If you are already quite proficient, this book will keep you fresh. No Chess ever written will equip you to win as will Winning Chess!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: My first chess book, and still the best
Comment: Everyone has praised this book, and rightly so. I thought I'd give an anecdote on my chess in school and this magic little book.
About 15 years ago, my brother-in-law gave this book to me. He explained that it helped him improve more than other book when he was in the chess club during high school. I remember him saying he played board 2 for his team. He didn't have a rating, but I suspect it to be around 1500.
It was the only chess book I had. I read the book several times, amazed how much I learned from it because it was 'just ahead' of where I was and allowed me to reach that next step.
I got much better at chess, and in high school I played board 1 my Junior and Senior year going undefeated in our regional competitions. I had lent this book out to several people on our team, so much that it became quite tattered! I remember lending it to our board 4 player, whom I consistantly beat every practice game we played. Some weeks later, I saw a noticeable improvement in his play to where I was losing much more often against him in practice. My studying of Reinfeld's "The Complete Chess Course" helped my positional play, and studying my favorite MCO-12 lines gave me a good opening start, but I would at times falter in our practice games, often in the middlegame. Having been awhile since I had seen my book after lending it out, I kept reminding that I wanted it back!
I lent this book to our board 2 player, with good results. But after lending him my MCO-12, his game seemed to suffer. MCO seemed to contribute to our team's chess 'illnesses.'
After mastering Winning Chess, I began studying the 1001 combinations book, but never quite got into that as I was graduating and left the chess scene for awhile. Now after a 11-year absence from chess, Winning Chess is the book I started back with again (still tattered) and now am studying CT-ART 3.0, ala Rapid Chess Improvement, in an effort to bring myself back to a respectable level of play and return to competition.
Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics is a fine book. Bain's Chess Tactics for Students is quite good. But this one, 55 years since introduced, is still the best. If you only had 1 book on chess, this should be it.
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Title: 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0879801107 Publisher: Wilshire Book Co Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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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: One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0879801115 Publisher: Wilshire Book Co Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:Fritz 8 ASIN: B0000959L9 Publisher: Viva Media Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $34.99 |
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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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