My latest site review ['Chess History on the Web (2001 no.15)'] is not a real review, but a reprint of an 1840 portrait of La Bourdonnais. The article, which...
Dear Steven,<br><br>Here is my personal list, reflecting my interest in American chess history. I use these books quite frequently in my research. These are in...
To: Neil,<br><br>Wow, thanks! I have the 1st one on your list, but not any of the others. For most of them, the title (I assume) give me some idea about its ...
Dear Steven,<br><br>Chess Explorations is a collection of short pieces from Edward Winter's chess history magazine Chess Notes; Kings, Commoners, and Knaves is...
" It is a botch. A friendly but thin effort. "<br><br>While the book is a little uneven and unfocused, I wouldn't call it a botch.<br><br>It's still more...
See the site at...<br><br><a href=http://www.sahovski.com/ target=new>http://www.sahovski.com/</a><br><br>...for the CI products. I got CI 1-79 as a bonus with...
>Maybe the best history book is BCM!! <br><br>There's no question about it. The Brits dominate the field. I can say that because I'm not British!...
While we're on the subject of books, another category which I've been investigating recently is the history of chess theory. It's harder to list specific ...
>Have you looked at: "The Development of Chess Style" by Max Euwe & John Nunn? (I haven't, but my impression is that it contains a similar theme<br><br>I...
Jose Raul Capablanca was born in Havana in the 19th of November 1888 . At the age of four he learned chess by watching a match vs his father and a friend .At...
I just received "The Development of Chess Style" by Euwe & Nunn (1977). They start off with Greco and Philidor and then in chapter 3 skip to Anderssen. If its ...
"Do we have many complete game scores for either Greco and/or Philidor? Are there any good reference works on either of those players?"<br><br>Dear ...
There is an artcle in the Welsh magazine "Y Ddraig" (pronounced ee-dried) - literally The Dragon, about 20 years ago called: 'How Good Was Philidor?'. You are...
Best players, never champions <br><br><< Who do you think have been the best players who were never world champions? I would think Keres and Korchnoi ...
Pillsbury, Schlechter, Rubinstein, Nimzovitsch, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Ivanchuk.....<br><br>The FIDE qualification system, especially after all Fischer's...
Dear Bojan,<br><br>Please thank Sir Stewart for me. I have never been praised by a Knight before! :-) Also please ask him if he has any game scores from his ...
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