Chess Advantage in Black and White Book Review

The Chess Advantage in Black and White
Larry Kaufman
McKay Chess Library
Target audience 1400-1800 (I think)
First of all let me say that putting a complete repertoire for both the white and black pieces in one book is a daunting task.  We’ll disregard all of the research that goes into the book for a minute, and focus on the [...]

Chess Openings for White, Explained Book Review

Chess Openings for White, Explained
Lev Alburt
Chess Information and Research Center (CIRC)
 For Players of all levels (says so on the back cover, so it must be true.
Ok this book is like a staple at this time so my review will do little to alter its place on the chess scene.  This is a 543 page behemouth!  [...]

Chess Openings for Black, Explained Book Review

 This is the sister companion to the previous book.
The presentation is the same, and the same poor binding issues affected my copy of the black repertoire book as well.  This was also a wildly popular book the past two years so the possibility of these lines being well traveled by many of your OTB opponents [...]

Starting Out: 1.e4! Book Review

Starting Out: 1e4!
Neil McDonald
Everyman Chess 1600-1800 (maybe, it’s hard for me to tell)
Ok so there is no nice way to say this so I’m just going to come out and say it…
This is not a good book.   See my addendum at the bottom.
This is a white Repertoire book, by a very accomplished author.  His recent books [...]

Starting Out: 1.d4! Book Review

Starting Out: 1d4!
John Cox
Everyman Chess 1600-1800 (once again hard for me to tell) Probably for 1880+ this thing repertoire is kind of a bear.
Well this review will be a bit shorter than the rest, because I haven’t finished the book.  I just went over the King’s Indian Defense Section and the Grunfeld sections.  Overall this is a [...]

Starting Out: Alekhine’s Defence

 
Starting Out: Alekhine’s Defence
John Cox
Everyman Chess
Ok so another Everyman Starting Out: series book.  What can I say when you’re a patzer like me, you need these things explained in very easy to understand layman’s terms and this series fits the bill perfectly.
Now I played the Alekhine years ago when I started dabbling in chess.  I [...]

Play 1e4 e5! Book Review

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Play 1e4 e5!
Nigel Davies
Everyman Chess
Possibly 1600-2000, maybe even 1800+
Ok remember when I said before that I was a dumbass?  Well when I was trying to play 1…e5 this is the book I picked up.  Now I only finished about 3/4ths of it but I can heartily recommend it.  First of all unlike some efforts by [...]

Starting Out: d-Pawn Attacks Book Review

Cover Price $24.95
Richard Palliser
ELO Range 1200 – 1800 (as always this is my best guess)
Book Construction Quality: 
Here’s the thing folks, Everyman publishes a good looking book.  Nowhere is this more apparent than in the starting out series.  The cover is always shiny and glossy and it is always a close up view of a board [...]

Ummm….Anyone know what happened to Liquideggproduct?

WTS!  Where is his site.  Did the evil bastards at Malt-o-Meal finally get to the mascot?

Week 5 of the CCC, should be 8 but it’s only 5

I figure I’d start putting more pictures in with my posts will make the site a little more interesting.  Yes I guess I am getting a bit desperate.
This is where the magic happens.
 
 
 Don’t congratulate me on my self control, these are just the books I chose to show you, theres tons more, trust me.
 
Now for [...]