Favorite GM authors

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4th March 2009, 03:57pm
#1
by Daniel3
Canada
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 612

Which GM author do you consider to be the most informative? Which one helped you the most with your chess development, and what did you like about them? Was it their writing style, insight, humor, analysis? 

My personal favorites include Yasser Seirawan and vladimir Vukovic. Vladimir might not be as funny as yasser, but he had superb understanding of the attack and how to conduct it. His book has been helping me a lot.

So, who's your favorite author and why?

4th March 2009, 04:03pm
#2
by Mimchi
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 206

SEIRAWAN!!! I LOVE HIS STYLE AND HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR THE GAME!Laughing

4th March 2009, 04:14pm
#3
by goldendog
beertopia United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 2298

Tartakover is memorably witty.

4th March 2009, 04:20pm
#4
by NotKasparov
Wilmington (near Philadelphia) United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 354

Bhat.

Really.  I love his articles.  And I don't have to pay for them  (yeeha!)

4th March 2009, 04:21pm
#5
by lastwarrior2010
Seattle, Washington United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 845

SEIRAWAN!!!

4th March 2009, 04:24pm
#6
by gumpty
congleton England
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 7116

If you haven't already check out the chess books by John Nunn, they are all fantastic!

8th March 2009, 08:24pm
#7
by rob9258
Oak Park United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 152

Reuben Fine -- his Basic Chess Endings and The Middle Game in Chess are classics.

8th March 2009, 08:52pm
#8
by Eternal_Patzer
United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 316

Anything by John Watson, but especially his Series on the Openings (3 vol published and #4 pending) 

OK, he's not a GM, (he's an IM) but he outwrites nearly all of them Tongue out

9th March 2009, 06:00pm
#9
by Duncan_1867
Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 1874

Yeah, John Nunn, my alltime favorite really has writen really good chess books !

10th March 2009, 11:18am
#10
by NM tonydal
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 4566

My favorite's Kasparov. Also liked a lot John Emms in his Survival Guide to Rook Endings. And another fun one was Speelman's Best Chess Games 1970-80 (I think it was called).

10th March 2009, 11:21am
#11
by spoiler
North Bergen, New Jersey United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 311

Bruce Pandolfini

I like to go over the games in chess life, he does not overanalize.

10th March 2009, 11:24am
#12
by fleiman
Carmiel Israel
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 356

Bronstein.

10th March 2009, 11:28am
#13
by santiR
outside Washington D.C. United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 1027

I like Neil McDonald, he's very clear and concise.  also CHernev, although he's a bit too stuck to the rules.  But funny in his old way.

10th March 2009, 11:47am
#14
by rooperi
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 3908

My favourite will always be Tartakower. great annotations, sense of humour and sense of drame "Duelling with rapiers on the edge of a precipice"

10th March 2009, 03:56pm
#15
by BaronDerKilt
East of Omaha United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 435

Larry Evans of course. Never seen him print a Chess mistake yet. Bronstein was very good to read too, for a games collection.

10th March 2009, 04:12pm
#16
by CM streetfighter
Glenrothes Scotland
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 547

Mikhail Tal and Eduard Gufeld are the 2 main writers who got me seriously hooked on chess.

They opened my eyes to a whole new way of looking at the game with their accent on tactics, attacking chess and the aesthetic appeal of the game.

10th March 2009, 04:20pm
#17
by Laughingknight
Texas United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 127

mine is horsley Vaughn stag, he played the four knights opening while slurping on a frosty from wendy's.

 

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