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NMRhino
Sep 6, 2022
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#1
Hi, I am looking for some chess books that have annotated master games, but ones that I can just read on its own without a chess board. Are their any books with a diagram showing the board after each move, and doesn’t have deep variation trees In it?
Sep 11, 2022
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#4
I'd be interested in books like this too. I'm a reader of "regular" books, but it is no secret that reading a chess book from cover to cover takes a lot longer due to needing a board and going through variations.
For the meantime, I've read chess books by using a physical board to move along with the game or discussed "mainline"/stem game and I simply try to visualize the variations so I don't have to move the pieces on the physical board. If I improve my visualization enough, then maybe one day I'd even be able to read a chess book without a board 
This is just what I do, but I don't know if it is best for everyone and different things might work better for different people.
Sep 11, 2022
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#5
I’ve got only one book out of all the ones that I own which has a diagram every move: it’s called Speed Chess Challenge 1987, and is about a Kasparov-Short Rapidplay match.
It’s an interesting idea but the problem with having so many diagram is obvious: space - the above mentioned book only has six games in it! You obviously have more options in electronic format.
Not after every move, bur after 5 moves the series Weltgeschicte des Schach, published in the 60s, but just the game scores no text. Basically a pre PC era database of games.
If such a book exists, it would be exceeding rare. I own hundreds of chess books, which I have acquired over several decades, many of which are annotated games collections. None of them meet the OP's criteria of a diagram after every move. The reason is, obviously, that there isn't enough demand for such books.
Sep 13, 2022
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RussBell wrote:
If such a book exists, it would be exceeding rare. I own hundreds of chess books, which I have acquired over several decades, many of which are annotated games collections. None of them meet the OP's criteria of a diagram after every move. The reason is, obviously, that there isn't enough demand for such books.
Another good point from a previous post is that it would eat up reams of paper. I am interested in such books, but not at twice the size and twice the cost.
I wasn’t aware Silman had a book out with annotated master games.
Sep 13, 2022
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#10
There is an phone app called ForwardChess which sells books, but each diagram becomes interactive if you click on it.
So, you can see every move, look at every subvariation, but also look at options that the author doesn't cover in the book.
It can be accessed from a computer also.
Larry Evans and Ken Smith worked on a book about the Fischer-Spassky 1972 match where a diagram follows after every move. It's the only such book that I know of.
Oct 3, 2022
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#12
busterlark wrote:
Larry Evans and Ken Smith worked on a book about the Fischer-Spassky 1972 match where a diagram follows after every move. It's the only such book that I know of.
Yeah that’s the only book I’ve ever heard of that had that. But when I checked the book the notation they use isn’t the same one that I use.
