Category Archives: Reviews
Book Review: Walter Penn Shipley: Philadelphia’s Friend of Chess
Walter Penn Shipley: Philadelphia’s Friend of Chess – John S. Hilbert (McFarland 2012). This softback edition is a reprint of John Hilbert’s 2003 hardback biography of WPS. Most biographies of players concentrate on the lives …
Book Review: The Torre Attack: Move by Move
‘The Torre Attack: move by move’ – Richard Palliser (Everyman 2012), 302 pages, paperback. Most readers will have noticed that the days are now long gone when 1 d4 Nf6 would invariably be followed by …
Book Review: Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924
‘Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886– 1924’ – Per Skjoldager and Jorn Erik Nielsen (McFarland 2012). Hardback. 456 pages. Algebraic notation. 14 chapters, bibliography and indexes of openings, opponents, general reference At …
Book Review: Sicilian Taimanov
‘The Sicilian Taimanov’ is the latest in Everyman’s new ‘Move by Move’ series, designed to replicate a set of lessons with a trainer through a series of probing questions and exercises. This book is written …
Book Review: The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies
‘The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies’ – Sam Collins (Everyman Chess 2012). Paperback. 176 pages. (Reproduced from the 03/2013 BCM) Hopefully, whoever reads this book will have the consumer know-how to avoid believing that a book …
