Chess for Tigers
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Jul 25, 2007
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i agree with that. when i win against better players (and i have even beaten a GM in blitz - twice!) it was because he underestimated me and i complicated things :)
I've never heard of that last point, but I think that it works on the element of surprise. It could work. After all, how many times can you open with E4?
Sep 4, 2007
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#4
if you liked chess for tigers, you should try chess for zebras by Jonathan Robson..great book
Sep 4, 2007
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There's a sad tale surrounding the auther of this book, Simon Webb. He was stabbed to death by his 25 yr old son in 2005 after an argument.
But I don’t have chess zebras
But I have chess tournament
And I challenge one of you to a tournament please reply
Sep 19, 2020
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I enjoyed reading the book (2nd edition, apparently) a long time ago. It was a fun read with nice illustrations but i vaguely remember that the advice it offered wasn't particularly helpful to me, at least at that time. I think if you're playing against a substantially lower rated opponent you shouldn't be afraid to play complicated or risky chess (if that's the style you normally enjoy)... i'm thinking of one particular painful loss of mine in a tournament i was joint-leading after 3 rounds but then crumbled in the 2nd half, when i played too boringly against a lower rated player! 
Chess for Tigers, by Simon Webb is one of the few chess books that I've read (I decided to buy a chess book with some vouchers at a shop and it looked more interesting than the others).
It has some interesting ideas on how to beat players who are better than you, and how to avoid problems against people you'd normally beat, and talks a lot about playing the moves that most suit your game, which are not always technically right. Some of this has contradicted what people have said in analyses here (eg. if you're playing someone better, Webb says you should complicate things, not simplify them, in the belief that in normal, open play someone much better than you is less likely to miss something important).
Has anyone here read it, and what do they make of it? (particularly that last point)