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Align board so the white square corner is to right. Game 1 nimzowitsch vs capablanca, 1914 c62 ruy lopez, old steinitz defense, 42 moves, 01. In 1999, his secrets of modern chess strategy won chess book of the year awards in the usa and the uk. The following is a list of the 50 guidelines for winning chess games which i stress repeatedly with the players i. The gambit guide to the modern benoni, secrets of modern chess strategy, chess strategy in action, mastering the chess openings volume 1, mastering the chess openings volume 2, mastering the chess openings volume 3, mastering the chess openings volume 4, chess openings for kids, a strategic chess opening repertoire for. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Watson s italics watson is an excellent writer and the text and examples are clearer than in many instructional books. If smcs was an update to my system, csa is the new version of chess praxis for those poor souls foolish enough to have skipped it, smcs traced the. I dont agree with all the choices the best books stand above others for their quality and instructional value laskers manual deserves to be on the list as does reuben fines basic chess endings, zonosko borovoskis the middle game in chess, chess fundamentals by jose capablanca, lessons from my games by reuben fine and the game of chess by siegbert tarrasch. His groundbreaking fourvolume work on the english and play the french, often described as the french players bible, firmly established his reputation in the 1980s, and he has produced a string of topquality works since. International master john watson is one of the worlds most respected writers on chess. The latter two were published in the autumn of 2008 to great critical acclaim, while the attacking manual 1 was a bit of a disappointment not least to the author. The three basic principles of the opening are well established and will not change in the foreseeable future.
Chess strategy in action is watson s companion volume to his award winning work, secrets of modern chess strategy. Chess strategy in action by john watson, gambit 2003, 288 pp. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading chess strategy in action. He illustrates the modern practice of chess with many examples from imaginative players such as kasparov, kramnik, anand, ivanchuk and tempestuous innovators such as shirov and morozevich. International chess and chinese chess xiangqi are similar strategy board games for two players. John watson fleshes out the theory presented to enormous acclaim in secrets of modern chess strategy and extends it into new areas. Secrets of modern chess strategy is an excellent book. Chess strategy in action kindle edition by watson, john. Chess strategy in action by john watson the author illustrates the modern practice of chess with many examples from imaginative players such as kasparov, kramnik, anand, ivanchuk and tempestuous innovators such as shirov and morozevich.
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