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Title: Best Lessons of a Chess Coach (McKay Chess Library) by Sunil Weeramantry, Ed Eusebi, Bruce Pandolfini ISBN: 0812922654 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best intermediate level books around!
Comment: I own a chess library of close to 100 titles. If I was only allowed to keep 10, this book would be one of them!
This book is extremely easy to read and follow: there are no typos and the socratic teaching style is fun and entertaining.
It covers the subjects of strategic planning and methods of conducting the attack. The method is to carefully disect a number of master games and examine the motives behind the moves. The difference is that this book does so using lots of words! (not endless variations and nonsensical symbols like some other books do). As a result, the reader will actually feel as though they can start understanding how a master formulates a plan during an actual game.
This book is probably best suited for players rated between 1200 - 1700 USCF.
It would ideally be read after reading a more basic book on chess such as "Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev, or "Play Winning Chess" or "Winning Chess Strategies" by Yasser Seirawan.
By reading one or two of these other books first, it would assure the maximum learning value by reinforcing and then expanding on what is taught in these other, more elementary texts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good example games to enhance chess thinking
Comment: This book would be beyond the absolute chess beginner, since just learning to make moves is their primary focus.
However, for the avid chess player, one who plays in tournaments, at a chess club, in a school program, or who just plays every chance s/he gets, this is a wonderful book to help improve the understanding of the game. It is so well written that one who can visualize a short sequence of moves (1 or 2) need not use a chess board to fully understand the games discussed. Mr. Weeramantry has written the book as a coach would teaches a student, often asking his student a question about a given position, and then explaining why the student's best response would be good or not so good. If not so good, he asks for another choice.
This book (for a chess book) was very easy to read. I'm a class A tournament player who completely enjoyed reading it,... and re-reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great teacher
Comment: This is the best chess book I've ever read. As others have mentioned, it works as a slightly more advanced version of Chernev's Logical Chess. Weeramantry is obviously a teacher first and a player second (though he is a good player).
I am frustrated by authors who simply list long variations (Rc4? Bb3, e5 f6!, exf6 Nxf6, Kh1 Qe7 and so on), or those who illustrate basic concepts by simply showing great moves (Ludek Pachman, you know who you are), or those who rely on "Harlem Globetrotters v. Washington Generals" examples to prove their points. Weeramantry provides text explanations where possible, highlights key themes, and gives you keys as to what to look for when choosing a move.
There are only 10 games, but a lot of information is packed into them. There are 3-4 lightly annotated games at the end of each chapter which were hard for me to follow at times, but I figure I can go back to them when I'm a better player.
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Title: How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course by Jeremy Silman ISBN: 1890085006 Publisher: Siles Press Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery by Jeremy Silman ISBN: 1890085022 Publisher: Siles Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine ISBN: 0812917561 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Art of Attack : Rev. Algebraic Ed. by Vladimir Vukovic ISBN: 1857444000 Publisher: Everyman Chess Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman, International Master Silman Jeremy ISBN: 1890085057 Publisher: SCB International Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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