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Time to Say Bye-Bye to Robertie's Winning Chess Tactics
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Cherub_Enjel wrote:
I had that book when I was like a 1000 level player. It was really good.
LOL, I thought so too. I'm probably at a 1000 level OTB right now. I got a long ways to go before I play tournament chess again.
Didn't Robertie always use Cardoza Press? I don't think that publisher ever included indexes in its books. A real turnoff...
EscherehcsE wrote:
Didn't Robertie always use Cardoza Press? I don't think that publisher ever included indexes in its books. A real turnoff...
Yup. Cardoza Publishing. No index. But this book doesn't need one. Just look at the table of contents.
Time for this patzer to graduate to harder stuff.
This patzer was in a used book store earlier this year, browsing the chess titles. I knew tactics was important. And I remembered the name Bill Robertie from my Backgammon days. (He was a Backgammon Champion)
Flipped through the pages. "Hey, this is readable!" Lots of prose explanations. Not loaded down with paragraphs and pages of possible variations like these Openings books. Plus it's only $2-$3!
So I bought it. My first chess book purchase in many decades!! Easy read. Enjoyable. Don't even need to set up a board.
But now it's time to move on. Robertie gets dogged in the reviews. But for a cheap introductory book on tactics, it wasn't bad.
Senior Patzer's first book? Bill Robertie's Winning Chess Tactics! Lol.