Reading Chess Books
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ATJ1968
Aug 5, 2007
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#21
Try fritz. You can usually get copies on ebay for next to nothing.
Thanks Jona004.
Aug 5, 2007
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#23
jona004 wrote: Hemingway? Might be abit over my head there. I'll stick to my VIZ comics thanks!
Nothing over anyone's head in Hemingway, and besides if Hemingway is over your head, what of chess books! 
Aug 6, 2007
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#24
I'm interested in chess thats why it doesn't go over my head. I've nothing against Hemingway, i've just never read any. Like say Shakespeare, i just presume that it would bore me, i may well be wrong. If we lived for millions of years we could never read everything thats suggested we read. Literature like music is too deep a pool. Besides i'm no big reader of fiction ( apart from VIZ, and i swear most of thats true ).
Aug 11, 2007
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#25
i like books and articles better than playing . . . so i don't really get much better, if at all. i can enjoy a beginner's thing for the sheer pleasure of seeing how the writer goes about it.
the thing i do do is learn how to visualize better so i can see in my mind what is going on on the board. otherwise, how would one follow a game score card from move to move? 'seeing' the pieces on the board in one's mind must be the skill prior to everything else - surely more importnt than memorizing sequences [which must get beyond possibility once possible responses by one's opponent are taken into account.
Chess books are peculiar things, there was that paper on how missing single coma can affect the whole perception and memory one has of the book that was read.
If that is true then with chess books it would apply even more. I always read them with spare notebook and tons of scraps of paper to place in the books, to return and to study them properly.