colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (12/01/85)
> As far as a good book, I highly recommend "Bobby Fischer Teaches > Chess." It is a compendium of chess problems, mostly back-rank > mates. Some may scoff, but I consider it a great book (pb) for a > beginner. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other titles > offhand. Several authors come to mind, though: Irving Chernev, > Fred Reinfeld, I.A. Horowitz, Raul Capablanca (Chess Fundamentals, > or some such title, is a classic), and Aaron Nimzovitz. ' ' ' That's Jose Raul Capablanca and Aron Nimzovich. Both are too advanced for beginners. Reinfeld writes for new players, so he doesn't omit details that would be obvious to an expert. His _Winning Chess Openings_ is a great way to learn the openings. (When you get better, you go on to ' Richard Reti's _Masters of the Chessboard._) Horowitz was an editor of _Chess Review,_ and published a lot of game collections. A very lively annotator. Like Reinfeld, he didn't mind explaining things! -- "Always put your bishops on opposite colored squares! How many games is _you_ throwed away 'cause you never heerd o' this rule?" --Uncle Fischmeister's Maxims -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
victor@klipper.UUCP (L. Victor Allis) (12/06/85)
In article <2560@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >> As far as a good book, I highly recommend "Bobby Fischer Teaches >> Chess." It is a compendium of chess problems, mostly back-rank >> mates. Some may scoff, but I consider it a great book (pb) for a >> beginner. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other titles >> offhand. Several authors come to mind, though: Irving Chernev, >> Fred Reinfeld, I.A. Horowitz, Raul Capablanca (Chess Fundamentals, >> or some such title, is a classic), and Aaron Nimzovitz. > > ' ' ' >That's Jose Raul Capablanca and Aron Nimzovich. Since you started "correcting" the way Nimzowitch's name was written I would like to show there is more to say about his name. The 'Lebenslauf eines Pessimisten' (A forword in Nimzowitch's famous book 'Mein System') written by Dr. J. Hannak, says quite a lot about the way his name should be written. (I'm talking about the second release, printed in 1965.) Hannak writes that Nimzowitch was born as: v v Aaron Nemcovic (An accent circonflex must be put on the e) This was changed after a little while into the German way of writing it: Aaron Niemzowitch (no accents) After World War I Nimzowitch moved to West, and in his new passport the letter 'e' was mistakenly left out, so from now on his name was: Aaron Nimzowitch (no accents) L. Victor Allis. Free University of Amsterdam The Netherlands. (Nomen est Omen ? Quis Nomen ?)
ron@ada-uts.UUCP (12/11/85)
No matter how Nimzo's name is spelled, I think that his book is just the thing for beginners who have played enough games to know the rules of chess. He starts from near-zero knowledge and builds up nicely.