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Interactive Chess E-Books?
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Try www.everymanchess.com or www.chess4less.com best wishes, John C.
Thanks! I'll check these out after I've got some sleep :)
Well if you happen to have an iPad (or even iPhone or iPod, though the screens on those are a bit small for this), this might be just what you are looking for. However, so far the list of books is pretty small, and they aren't cheap. The App is free and comes with an example book, so you might want to take a look if you have an iWhatever. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be available for PC or even Android:
http://eplusbooks.com/about-e-chess
There is also Forward Chess http://forwardchess.com. They even have at least one e-book about the French defence!
Has anyone used the fowardchess app? I keep debating it for Judit Polgars book, but $20 for a digital book on a non univeral platform still feels like a gamble.
You can download and try out the forwardchess app for free, to see how it feels to use etc. One book "True Lies in Chess" (also published by Quality Chess) is also a free download.
My experience with the app is that it is solid and responsive (although it has to be said I am still using the version for iOS 5.1).
The Quality Chess books by Judit Polgar are excellent.
Hello everyone!
So I've learned most of what little I know about playing chess from YouTube videos and that's great, but it also means that I have serious trouble trying to learn anything from traditional chess books since I'm just not used to reading the lines in the form of coordinates. Obviously, I understand how the chess board's coordinates work, I'm not that much of a newbie :) but when trying to train with a book and a board, shifting constantly from looking in the book to looking on the board, making moves, I have a difficult time coordinating book and board in my thoughts - hopefully you know what I mean. It all gets very "mechanical" and thoughts about ideas, tacticts, strategy of a given position are easily lost in the process - I'm just too slow and very soon, it seems I hardly gain anything.
Naturally, "reading chess" is something one will get used to. I'm not willing to devote my life to chess though; it might be a great game but I have other things to do in my life. However, I thought that there should be instructional e-books that deal with, let's say, the French defence (or whatever) where you have a board for interaction and excercises and perhaps with some video instruction as well?
I got some software at one point (Rybka 4) but it's not enough for me with a computer showing me all the lines, I need pedagogical explanation and excercises as well.
I'm curious about e-books of any theme really, so thanks to anyone who could provide me with some pointers and tips on anything you deem as good reading!
Regards,
Dragonbice