Has anybody ever read this book?

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echecs06 wrote:

I am no chess book reviewer expert. I like Rheinfeld's insight. Those guys sure knew how to think "outside" the box. I don't know whom you mean by the "rest", but in my modest estimation, Nimzo, Rheinfeld, Chernev and their likes knew the intricacies of chess mental calculation. I like Silman too.


I meant the other books mentioned on this thread. 

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Crazychessplaya wrote:

Nope, I try to stay away from Reinfeld, Horowitz, Schiller and Pandolfini. Bad for your chess education (with some few exceptions).


 Can you explain why doing tactics puzzles is bad for your chess education? I'm really puzzled by that one.

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Benedictine wrote:
Crazychessplaya wrote:

Nope, I try to stay away from Reinfeld, Horowitz, Schiller and Pandolfini. Bad for your chess education (with some few exceptions).


 Can you explain why doing tactics puzzles is bad for your chess education? I'm really puzzled by that one.


 I did not write that doing tactic puzzles is bad for one's chess education. I wrote that I try to avoid authors such as Reinfeld, Horowitz, Schiller and Pandolfini, whose books often turn out to by sloppily written and full of errors. Reading worthless books is bad for one's chess education.

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I have that book

 

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It has old english notations

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There are both algebraic (1 e4 e5) and descriptive (1 P-K4 P-K4) versions of Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

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i almost completed the book

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I am 70 years old now. I had it when I was a teen and you could hardly find any chess books (60s and early 1970s) I think this book got me to 1500 + USCF. It may be out now in algebraic notation. One of my favourite books in high school.