Thanks all. I did get myself the giant of strategy book as well as the New York 1924. I started giant of strategy which is highly enjoyable and instructive
Great....I thought you might like it (Giants of Strategy)....Neil McDonald is one of my favorite chess book authors. He typically does a better than average job of explaining things in a way that an amateur like me can understand!.......
Unfortunatly i have to exclude zurich 1953 because the diagram are quite bad as the "my best games by alekhine".
The art of logical thinking has also quite bad diagrams unfortunatly
Are you using the Kindle format of these book? I ask because Kindle format is notorious for problems with rendering of chess books. Also, I own the print version of these books and all the diagrams are clearly rendered in the books. In fact, I have both David Bronstein's and Miguel Najdorf's editions of "Zurich 1953". The Bronstein edition uses an older "font" for the diagrams, but they are still rendered very legibly. The Najdorf edition uses a modern font and the diagrams are rendered perfectly - the same for Neil McDonald's "Chess the Art of Logical Thinking..."
Thanks all. I did get myself the giant of strategy book as well as the New York 1924. I started giant of strategy which is highly enjoyable and instructive
If you enjoy "New York 1924" (annotated by Alekhine), you might also like "Nottingham 1936", tournament book, also annotated by Alekhine....
https://www.amazon.com/Nottingham-1936-Century-Editions-Russell/dp/1888690631/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520799472&sr=1-1&keywords=nottingham+1936
I'll for sure take a look a that Nottingham 1936. But if I'm going to get a new game collection it'll be gherkin zurich 1953 (heard too much good from it) and in print (the Kindle version is quite bad). Is there a quality difference between the najdorfs and Bronstein version (the latter beeing the most famous)? To answer your question I have both on kindle but had samples for boths. The diagram are good in giants of strategy, but a little small. New York has quite good diagrams and annotation for Kindle standard
One can get some idea of the lasting scope of the respect for the Bronstein Zurich book by looking at:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever
However, there is disagreement:
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-106-zurich-1953-by-najdorf
By the way, I would once again bring up the idea of doing some reading before getting more books. After some reading, you may find that you have a better idea about what you want and what you don't want. For example, one might read some of New York 1924 before buying Nottingham.
Thanks all. I did get myself the giant of strategy book as well as the New York 1924. I started giant of strategy which is highly enjoyable and instructive