Find a chess book I read a long time ago

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joelloconnor

In the late 50's I read a chess instruction book in a library on an army base in Yokohama, Japan or a navy base in Corpus Christi, TX which took a very simplified approach.   It taught just three openings.   One of them was the Queen's Pawn Gambit, Declined.  And it advocated queen-side castling.

Does anyone know that book?  I can't remember the author or the title.

Quasimorphy

The details don't sound right, but the book that came to mind for me was How to Think Ahead in Chess by Horowitz and Reinfeld.  Three openings but they don't seem to be what you're thinking of.  That book advocates the Stonewall Attack for White and the Sicilian Dragon and QGD Lasker Variation for Black.  Probably not what you're thinking of, but it is a book from the 1950's. Might see if the cover rings a bell.

http://www.amazon.com/Think-Ahead-Chess-Horowitz-Reinhold/dp/B000GKSTNO

joelloconnor

Thanks for trying.   That part about three openings seemed pretty promising.   But that's definitely not the cover, at least back then.  It had a dark hardback cover, and might have been from much earlier than the 50s; and I'm pretty sure it had just one author.