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Title: More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2 by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0-671-79499-X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 03 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Before you learn to play an opening, learn how NOT to!
Comment: This is for beginners, rated below 1300 USCF. Most of the traps are fairly obvious (though some have snagged Grandmasters) but the point is to be aware of them before they occur, so that they do not occur!
In that sense, a book on traps is important before you prepare an opening repertoire. I would look at this book first, then the one by Chernev, and finally the one by Graham Burgess, the last of which is from high-level play. Only then does it make sense to spend any time thinking about the theoretically BEST moves. Chess is about tactics far more than it is about memorization. Just play SAFE moves, and study tactics.
Personally, I use this book for drilling simple tactics into my head. I do not go over the opening lines. I just look for the best refutation of what is shown in each diagram. Already, I have improved dramatically in Internet blitz games, because I make fewer blunders and take advantage of my adversaries'.
The coverage of this book is White-king-pawn two-step (1.e4) followed by something other than Black-king-pawn two-step (e5). Pandolfini's first Traps and Zaps book covers the dual king-pawn openings, and the zaps are a bit less obvious in that book. Unfortunately, neither covers queen-pawn openings. I recommend Chernev's Winning Chess Traps for broader coverage (and for deeper, less blunderous traps in general). (Addendum: There are d4, c4, and other openings in the undiagrammed "Related Zaps" at the bottom of each page, useful if you're willing to take the time to walk through the moves.)
The more Pandolfini books I try, the more I like them!
Oh. Only 4 stars because of errata. Annoying, but always easy to find and fix.
Rating: 4
Summary: Clean Up Your Act
Comment: Not as good as it previous book but still with valuable tools. When I hear about all the others criticize this book the way they do, it appears that they do not see the author's point (and no my name isn't Bruce). This book is focused more on early traps as stated and not so much on opening repertoires. If you utilize this book move by move explicitly to 'sucker punch' your opponent, then, yes, obviously this book will not meet your expectations. But if it is used to clean up your own act in the openings and also to learn the different trap "ideas" as opposed to every single move by "the book" then perhaps there is something to learn. Maybe not the best for opening, but a legitimate book for traps.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not even worth one star.
Comment: This book is even worse than the first one! I can't believe they published a second book. Fireside Chess Library will publish anything! If you want to improve at the game of chess then you want to avoid this book and seriously question any book published by Fireside Chess Library. Did anyone with a high school diploma even read this before it was printed? Writing a book does not make you a good author...writing 100 books makes you no better....Bruce needs to give it up and just stick with writing solitaire chess games for Chess Life. Do you want to know who CAN write? Silman, Soltis, Chernev, Nomzovich, Baburin, Evans....and many more Use extreme caution when you see names like Eric Schiller, Horowitz, Pandolfini, Reinfeld...and others. (Reinfeld did hit one home run with "The Complete Chessplayer")
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Title: Chess Openings: Traps And Zaps by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0671656902 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Pandolfini's Endgame Course : Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0671656880 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The WINNING WAY : THE HOW WHAT AND WHY OF OPENING STRATEGEMS by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0684839490 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 11 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: WEAPONS OF CHESS: AN OMNIBUS OF CHESS STRATEGIES by Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0671659723 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder, Bobby Fischer ISBN: 0553263153 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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