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Title: The Immortal Games of Capablanca by Fred Reinfeld ISBN: 0-486-26333-9 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great player but.......
Comment: Capablanca was an exceptional tallent, and is one of my personal favorites. The reason i did not give this book better than 3 stars is because i just dont feel that Reinfeld really did him alot of justice with this book. The annotations are brief, and he seems to put down capa at times.
If you really want to get a book on perhaps the best player ever you should really consider buying instead "capablanca's 60 best chess endings" by chernev. Chernev not only admired the guy, but considered him the best player ever. So you know that the annotations are alot better. The book might have less games, but if you really want to enjoy, and learn from a book its definitely a fair trade. want to study a great player's games?
you cannot go wrong with Capablanca. awesome games, but Capablanca deserves better. If you cannot afford the extra dollar or so that Chernev's book cost. Then i would recommend this book to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoyable & instructive fine games of great genius
Comment: José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) is widely regarded as one of the all-time great chess players, and possibly the greatest natural chess genius in history. World champion from 1921-1927, he is the only player to have won the world title by defeating the incumbent in a match without losing a game. Grandmaster Robert Byrne, in his foreword, pointed how Capablanca's games were the greatest influence on the modern great world champion Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov is another disciple.
Mikhail Botvinnik (three times world champ) also related how much he learned from Capablanca, and pointed out that even his successor Alexander Alekhine received much schooling from him in positional play, before the struggle for the world title made them bitter foes.
Once players have read all the introductory books about endgames, openings, tactics and basic strategy, to improve, they must study master games. Capablanca's crystal clarity of style makes his an ideal object of study.
Reinfeld does a good job here, as he did with his collection of Tarrasch's games. There are plenty of fine endgames, Capa's forté, but lots of brilliancy prize games as well. By the time Capa had won the world title, he had a unique record - winning a brilliancy prize at every master tournament he had played in where one was awarded.
In his biographical sketch of Capa, Reinfeld states his belief in Alekhine's superiory. But Byrne's foreword points out that Alekhine never fulfilled his obligation to play a return match, and selected weaker opponents instead of facing him again. In fact, their first game after their world championship match was nine years later at the great Nottingham 1936 tournament - Capa won both the game and the first prize (with Botvinnik).
The games in this book naturally overlap the ones in Golombek's book, but why not get both at such a bargain price?
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good book on a GREAT player!
Comment: Simply put, you CANNOT go wrong buying this book! Many of my students find Capa's game to be the BEST for instruction! (Capa is in practically everybody's list of the "Ten Best Players Who Ever Lived!" His games are timeless!)
Positional players will profit from the clarity of the models and the way chess is played in this book. Tactical players will profit from a look at a completely different way of playing chess. (Capa was also an EXCELLENT tactician!) I have recommended this book to dozens of people ... NOT ONE PERSON WHO PLAYED THROUGH MOST OF THE GAMES ... had ANYTHING negative to say about this book! Practically every kind of middle-game position is seen; MANY DIFFERENT openings are played. The notes are VERY clear and insightful. The average player will not feel over-burdened by tons of really unnecessary variations. (The only knock on this book is that it is in descriptive notation.)
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Title: My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 by Alexander Alekhine ISBN: 0486249417 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Morphy's Games of Chess by Philip Sergeant ISBN: 0486203867 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Botvinnik : 100 Selected Games ISBN: 0486206203 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev ISBN: 0486273024 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 06 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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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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