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erik
Mar 3, 2008
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wow! and i thought I had a lot of chess books!! (~100)
I think Baltic is having us all on - he must really be a librarian. Joking apart though, does having so many books help ? I have quite a few (maybe 70, 11 of which in the OP's list) and I know where most things are in them for reference purposes, but I can't seem to remember a massive amount ! If I could ....
Brothers, i am not a librarian
it just so happen that i love the game the same way as i love creating multimedia animations and graphics because it sets my creativity freely. The truth is.. having so many books made a a big confusion in my part during my school championship days. Most especially my openings. The biographical books served as my inspiration in my preparations for tourmanents in my high school days and even college days.I can remember studying Tal's games by clarke for three weeks trying to feel the flow of tal's style through me and it worked I won 5 of 7 games good enough for 2nd place finish way back in the 90's.
Two former school mates of mine now National Masters, used to tell me that when you try to study your selected player's style, you better stick to that player. I found it quite true. I used to play the sicilian as black and nothing else, thanks to the inspirational My 60 memmorable games by Fischer. And the King's indian whenever i meet 1.d4. As white I used to play 1.e4 automatically and meet the french with the KIA and the Sicilian with the sozin. And when I feel like playing 1.d4 I am very sure to meet the Kings indian with the barry attack and seamisch and the sicilian with the sozin. I love complicated positions because it is the only way that I could meet stonger players on level ground. Unclear positions requiring exchange sacrifices and unbalanced piece equivalents are my bread and butter.I play the opening just to get by and it is in the middle game that i start for a blood bath. I loved rook endgames but also loves knight versus bishop endgames. I may have a lot of books but i approach them objectively , I believe that whatever is good for other players may not be suitable to me. But to tell youo the truth... i prefer to lose a game and win a friend than win games and earn enemies.
Oh my god! you guys have tonnes of books!!! I have a very small collection i must admit. If anyone is selling books online at decent prices and ship to Ireland i would be more than happy to buy. Message me.
p.s. If anyone has the book ''The King Hunt'' (out of print) and willing to sell let me know. Best of luck to whoever decides to swap books. I simply dont have enough books to start swapping.
Hallo! I am very interested in "A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire" (Summerscale). I have cca 250 chess books but no time to create a list. Please tell me any book you want to swap for it and I will find it and send it to you. Thanks. M. Majer
Hello chess friends,
I wish to swap or trade or sell the chess books below.Swapping might be the ideal or best practical option but I am open to selling if needed.
(1) Dynamics of Chess Strategy - by Vlastimil Hansa
(2) Secrets of Attacking Chess - by Mihail Marin
(3) How to choose a chess move - by Andrew Soltis
(4) Mastering checkmates - by MacDonald.
(5) Beating the fianchetto defenses - by Esfratios Grivas
Please contact me quickly if you are interested in any of these books. if you need more information on chapter contents etc or any other information, let me know.
Do not worry about shipping, just let me know if you are keen on any of these books and we will discuss.