What Eric Shiller book has the most pages? I will need ten years worth of TP.
Your deserted island or prison chess book?
Either this one
The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games Graham Burgess (Author), John Nunn (Author), John Emms (Author)
or this one
500 Master Games of Chess (Dover Chess)
Dr. S. Tartakower (Author), J. du Mont (Author)
Or perhaps
Chess 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Polgar
Tough to decide.
OK, we've all seen dozens (hundreds) of posts about first chess books to buy, best instructional books, best game collections, top 10 lists, etc. etc.
But you're going to be relatively unoccupied for a very long time (say 10 years), and you can have ONLY ONE CHESS BOOK and a decent set. What is the single book that you'd want with you to entertain, instruct, divert, etc. and that you'd want to keep coming back to over and over?
Of all the books I have, I have to say that Tartakower and Dumont's "500 Master Games of Chess" would probably get my vote, barely edging out Polgar's "Chess."
It's interesting to see that I came in to the thread to voice my support for this book, and it turns out it's the first one in the thread! Yes, this book is fantastic. O.k., the games are obviously dated, all occurring even before the '53 Zurich Candidates tournament--heck, all before WWII for that matter--but if you didn't know how to play chess and wanted to become good at it, as long as you could figure out descriptive notation, this book would get you to Class A, certainly.
OK, we've all seen dozens (hundreds) of posts about first chess books to buy, best instructional books, best game collections, top 10 lists, etc. etc.
But you're going to be relatively unoccupied for a very long time (say 10 years), and you can have ONLY ONE CHESS BOOK and a decent set. What is the single book that you'd want with you to entertain, instruct, divert, etc. and that you'd want to keep coming back to over and over?
Of all the books I have, I have to say that Tartakower and Dumont's "500 Master Games of Chess" would probably get my vote, barely edging out Polgar's "Chess."