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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Six games from the eighties, Cernin-Miles Tunis '85, Miles-Belyavsky '84, Vaganian-Nogueiras '85, Gavirkov-Cebalo '85, Panczyk-Yusupov Warsaw '85, Dolmatov-Rogers Tallin '85 are analyzed move by move. They all illustrate points of tactics, concrete calculation, positional consideration , endgame play in that order of emphasis. The translator or author feels compelled to use expressions like "Black notches up with 5 ...d6" or "Black flanks ...g6." "Black frolics along with ..a1Q" It sounds as, one wit put it, as if the book was "Englished anonymously from Russian". Notwithstanding, the Question and answer style and Concept intermezzos actually make the book a useful one to study. no reviews | add a review
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Based on six games played by the "Kasparov generation" of Soviet chess players, America's foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix's The Queen's Gambit presents a complete course in intermediate chess logic. The "Kasparov generation" of Soviet chess players is perhaps the best-trained crop of young players ever to come out of the country, holding the world title for 55 of the last 60 years. With the clarity of instruction for which he is renowned, Bruce Pandolfini illustrates such concepts as Light Squares, Time, Attack, Pawn Advances, and Counterattack in six chapters structured around each of the six games. Featuring a Grandmaster Glossary, 101 diagrams, an index, and algebraic notation throughout, this uniquely crafted volume puts the most valuable concepts in world-class chess at the intermediate player's fingertips. No library descriptions found. |
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What makes it special? It is another "every-move-annotated-book" but I think is stands head and shoulders above both "Logical Chess" and "Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking" (both are fine books!).
Pandolfini tries to annotate the games both on a, if you like, micro- and macro-level perspective. Me, being a simpleton, was lured into a more active type of reading by the questions ("Will Nbd7 work?") in the text. I think it was less "Learning by nodding" while reading this book. Also, Mr Pandolfini has a few interesting quotes here and there in the text which adds a little enjoyment to the reading experience and perhaps some additional views on what is going on in the game under discussion.
The macro level annotations is perhaps less instructive but that is perhaps due to the fact that no single game is a pure application of a single strategic approach, say "Colour Play". It is of cours much more concrete to analyze if a single move (i.e. micro level) is safe or not.
The book is a few years old (1987) and I am rather surprised that the book hasn't received more attention.
All-in-all, One enthusiastic rant over an under the radar chess book ( )