Book: How to Reassess Your Chess (Expanded 3rd Edition) Author: IM Jeremy Silman Publishing Company: Siles Press City: Los Angeles (I believe) Year: 1993 Jeremy Silman tackles possibly the trickiest topic in amateur chess instruction: the d...
Coffeehouse Chess Tactics is a tactics book by John Healy, author of The Green Arena. It is a mixture of prose on tournament play, examples of beautiful tactics, mates, and traps, along with examples along set themes. The book is not a comprehens...
Simon Webb's book, Chess For Tigers, was published in 1978, and is a slim little volume with an awful lot of text. With chapters named things such as 'Play the man - not the board', 'Fortune favours the lucky', and 'How to catch heffalumps', the b...
The Monkey’s Paw, a short story published by W. W. Jacobs originally in 1902, may not seem to have that much to do with our beloved game. The only discussion of chess takes place at the start, where the father and son are playing during the storm....
Many years ago I picked up a book by Irving Chernev called The Chess Companion, which begins with 14 pieces of prose and poetry on the theme of chess. To story analysis series I’m going to go through them one by one, beginning with The Hour of Let...
Is this the most well known chess book in the world? Possibly. If it isn’t, it’s in the top five. The version in my possession is the 1991 21st Century Edition, edited by Lou Hays and with a foreword by the big man himself, Yasser Seirawan. Includ...
Well, I've decided to change tracks. I still love playing chess, and will do it any way I can, but I've decided to try and combine it with my greatest love of all time, stories. As a writing student (and film, but that's not the point), I ...
