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Title: HOW TO WIN IN THE CHESS OPENINGS by I. A. Horowitz ISBN: 0-671-62426-1 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Think of it as a prolegomenon to Fine
Comment: This might be a good choice for the beginner, the person who knows how to play chess but hasn't read anything on the opening. Compared to Fine, whose _Ideas_Behind_the_Chess_Openings_ is often recommended to newcomers, Horowitz covers fewer openings but in greater detail. He explains the strategic and tactical principles behind almost every single move. To acquire the ability to see the game in this manner is far more important than memorizing pages of book lines.
As Horowitz acknowledges with misgivings, the title is not quite accurate. This book will not teach you how to "win" in the opening (which never happens unless your opponent really trips hard). Rather, it will show you how to play the opening solidly so you can begin accumulating the small advantages out of which spring winning chances.
As other reviewers have noted, this book is written in the obsolete descriptive notation. Although you may as well learn how to read it, Horowitz does not explain how to use it in this book--a glaring omission in a book intended for beginners! Enough illustrations are included that you could probably deduce it from the text. I'd encourage people new to chess to translate the moves (the boldfaced ones, at least) into algebraic. Doing so will facilitate your recognition of opening lines in other chess literature.
After you've studied this, then go to Fine for expanded treatment of the major openings and coverage of the others left out of Horowitz.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book that helps make Millionaires.
Comment: Over 3 decades ago the first edition of this book was made available to me as a Jr. High School student. During that time our school only had one (1) air conditioned classroom available during lunch periods for the "chess club". My motivation for walking into the class room to enjoy my lunch was not to play chess, but to enjoy the comfort of air conditioning. But I was "required" to sit down and play my first game. With six other students looking on, I lost my first game to a "fool's mate" in the classic Queen & Bishop 3 move play. Embarassed and angry I stormed out of the room. Later that evening I went to a book store and asked for any book to help me "win" at chess. I purchased and began a month long study of "How to Win in the Chess Openings" . . . and returned 30 days later to beat the daylights out of all my opponents. Later, I found my math scores had risen from D's and F's to A's . . . and also, in later years, my ability to see 25 move forced check mates . . . and 25 move forced financial and business solutions which have led to over a million dollars a year. The cost of this reissued book is well worth the price tag . . . provided you take the precious commodity of "time" to enjoy the journey. (P.S. I also suggest acquiring a House of Staunton chess set in the heavy weighted 4 1/2" size, with the board squares measured at 2 1/2", as the world class players use.)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not bad for the beginner.
Comment: The first chess book I ever waded through, was all about tactics, mating patterns, etc. After reading it, I schooled all of my friends. But I had a rude awakening in my first tournament when I got had by fool's mate in the first game. So I commenced on learning openings in order to get into position to use my tactic skills. How To Win in the Chess Openings is a book I've studied in two phases. The first phase was just learning the different patterns and typical sequence of moves. I really didn't understand the theory and logic behind most of the opening moves. So at first, I was pretty disappointed in the book and left it alone. But now, 5 years later, I've been using the book to really get the logic behind the opening moves and it's finally making sense.
As some of the other reviews have stated, it only goes over a few different openings and not to a depth of being able to learn every variation. However, the openings covered are very common and the knowledge provided is very good for someone trying to get into the middlegame.
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Title: The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine ISBN: 0812917561 Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: How to Play the Chess Openings by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovski ISBN: 0486227952 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course by Jeremy Silman, Siles Press ISBN: 1890085006 Publisher: Silman-James Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps (Fireside Chess Library) by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0671656902 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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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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