Apples and oranges. One is a difficult tactics book and the other an annotated game collection. Chernev is the classic and you can get it in algebraic. I have both and finished neither so maybe I'm not qualified to post...
Cheng's 600 Practical Chess Exercises or Chernev's Logical Chess?
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baddogno wrote:
Thanks for explaining the differences. I currently own the following:
My System - Nimzowitsch
Chess Praxis - Nimzowitsch
Soviet Chess Strategy - Suetin
Soviet Middlegame Technique - Romanovsky
Questions of Modern Chess Theory - Lipnitsky
Endgame Manual - Dvoretsky
5334 Problems, Combinations and Game - L.Polgar
Would you say it would be better to get the tactics book as I don't really have a pure tactics book, or get the annotated games book, which you say is a classic?
I think I'm leaning towards the Chernev.....
Apples and oranges. One is a difficult tactics book and the other an annotated game collection. Chernev is the classic and you can get it in algebraic. I have both and finished neither so maybe I'm not qualified to post...
Cheng's book is nice but, real hard problems are mixed with easier problems. It does not go from easy to progressively harder problems which I think it should.
I don't know what's your rating, but if you are only a novice i'd suggest go for Chernev's book and study that with the Endgame Manual.
granitoman wrote:
I don't know what my rating is.
Is the Chernev book pitched at a lower level compared to the Cheng book?
I don't know what's your rating, but if you are only a novice i'd suggest go for Chernev's book and study that with the Endgame Manual.
Check out Coach Heisman's book recommendations. He lists the Chernev book as one of the easiest of his recommended anthologies, but Cheng is considered an intermediate tactics book. Here's the link:
http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Events_Books/General_Book_Guide.htm
Both are excellent. I would just get both as they are not expensive and will last you ages.
I can only get one of these books. Both seem to have good reviews. I currently own 5 strategy books and 1 tactics book, if that is anything to go by.