This is a great book!! It is in descriptive notation but still exellent! I was on another chess forum on face book about chess books, I mentioned that the first game I went through I found an error. This is a major pet peeve of mine. Any one have any comments about the book or can I expect a lot of this?

many years ago, a buddy of mine said Craig Chellstorp attributed first becoming an Expert player because of the lessons he learned in that book !

It's a great book.

A fantastic book. Chernev not only instructs, he conveys a lot of his own aesthetic pleasure to the reader. One of my earliest chess book purchases.

I think chess books are now put through a computer to check for errors. That was the job of a human proof reader in the past and errors did slip through.

Which Irvin Chernev book are we discussing?

Um...The most Instructive Games of Chess ever played.

I believe that Batsford has been selling an algebraic version of the book. Perhaps there has been some error correction along the way.

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Um...The most Instructive Games of Chess ever played

OOps thanks

Yes, I saw this book mentioned so much on this forum that I checked out a library copy and thought it was great, at least for the type of book it is (viz., a collection of games). Here's one game I liked from the book that helped me with rook-pawn endgames:

Chernev, Irving. 1965. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.

In that book there's a caricature of two kings playing chess.

One king is mockful, standing behind him is the queen. On his board are king and queen.

Opposite the mockful king is a sad- looking king. Behind him,is an equally sad,- looking bishop.

On the board is King and Bishop.

If you can't grasp the humor of the caricature, you're not a Chesser !