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Title: Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn ISBN: 1-901983-41-2 Publisher: Gambit Pub. Date: 14 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for above average players and chess fans
Comment: John Nunn is a strong GM who is also an excellent writer. Usually he writes for the upper echelon of stronger players (1800 USCF rating or higher); full of detailed analysis and variations. Here he is writing for a wider and broader audience. He selects games with clear cut themes and carefully anotates them. The anotations give not only the major options but puts the particular variation and style of play in context with contemporary chess trends. The games are particularly well chosen and nearly all are good clear cut examples - no muddy games. It reminds one of a guided tour of an art gallery with an docent - he explains why the masterpiece is a masterpiece. It may not improve your chess as much you would hope but it will increase your appreciation of chess. Note: for average readers it is possible to enjoy the book without a set, but for greater enjoyment having a set nearby is worth it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Modern games that are annotated as only Nunn can
Comment: Nunn is well-known for writing truly exhaustive works, using computer analysis and endgame databases to attempt to find the "truth" of every position.
This book is Nunn watering his work down, stepping off Mt. Olympus to throw a few crumbs to the middling masses of the chess world. He even occasionally writes in complete paragraphs while annotating, which most lower rated players clamor for.
This really is an excellent book for the average/above-average player; rather like Chernev's "Logical Chess" updated to the present, raised one notch from Chernev's book in terms of assumed playing strength of the reader, with the insights from Watson's "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" lurking, unspoken, all over the place.
The other reviews have stated the book's strong points and there is little need for me to recapitulate them. Buy this book. Read it. Learn from it.
Rating: 5
Summary: My personal BOOK OF THE YEAR
Comment: I spent four days lost in this masterpiece. It belongs to the select group of classics that really capture the spirit and excitement of great chess games, whilst really explaining what is going on.
It helps that Nunn himself is a brilliant grandmaster, who understands that games can ebb and flow. So often the result only tells part of the story!
My favorite games from the book? Well game 20, Kasparov-Shirov, is amazing - that's the one where Kasparov makes a rook for knight sacrifice purely on positional grounds. In terms on pure instruction, maybe game 18, Piket v Smirin, where establishing a knight outpost on the sixth rank proves decisive. Or how about game 25, Karpov's magnificent exploitation of an IQP - Isolated Queen's Pawn - against Kamsky. You choose!
This book can be enjoyed by dipping in one game at a time, or you can become hooked like I did. Either way, it will improve your understanding of chess for sure.
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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: Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances Since Nimzowitsch by John Watson ISBN: 1901983072 Publisher: Gambit Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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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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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: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman, International Master Silman Jeremy ISBN: 1890085057 Publisher: SCB International Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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