Category Archives: Books
Book Review: the Pirc by James Vigus
This is a very difficult book for me to review because I don’t play the Pirc and have not got Dr Vigus’s earlier work on the subject. Vasja Pirc (1907-80) may not have been a …
Book Review: The Enigma of Chess Intuition by Valeri Beim
This is a new paperback from New in Chess. www.newinchess.com. The author is a grandmaster based in Austria. His name? Valeri Beim. The book, which is neither a quick read or likely to be widely …
Book Review by Colin Purdon
‘The Modern French’ Dejan Antic and Branimir Maksimovic, is a solid 360 page book from ‘New in Chess’ that offers a repertoire based on the French Defence. Whilst the authors do take good care to …
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‘Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924′ – Per Skjoldager and Jorn Erik Nielsen. 468 pages. $49.95 library binding (7×10). 88 photos. 10 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, indexes. ISBN 978-7864-2 2012. From the …
Book Review with David Levens
Play the Benko Gambit (Everyman Chess 2011) by Nikolai Pederson I really like the Everyman series of chess books and I was especially interested in “play the Benko Gambit” as I have essayed it a …
