Checkmate or Bust by Wanda Peabody Hacking Up The King, by David Eggleston, Mongoose Press 2014, Paperback, Figurine Algebraic Notation, 225pp. $24.95 (ChessCafe Price $21.17) British International Master David Eggleston's book, Hacking Up The King, is aptly titled. In it he advocates that the reader should be ruthlessly aggressive in rending apart the opponent's defenses. In his approach every piece is expendable when seeking checkmate. Win at all cost! According to Eggleston, guidelines and principles only go so far; there is no substitute for the hard work of carefully analyzing complex positions. His goal is to give you the confidence to enter such sharp positions and finish … [Read more...]
Book Reviews
Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians, by Anthony Gillam
The Truth is Out There by Brian Almeida Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians, by Anthony Gillam, The Chess Player 2014, Hardcover, Figurine Algebraic Notation, 525pp. $69.95 (ChessCafe.com Price $61.47) The release of Mannheim 1914 and the Interned Russians was timed to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the Mannheim 1914 tournament. It tells as much of the story as can be presently unearthed about the 19th Congress of the Deutscher Schachbundes (the German Chess Federation). The event, comprising five tournaments, began on July 20, 1914 and was stopped on August 1, 1914 after the eleventh round when Germany declared war on Russia. The draw for the Master tournament was as … [Read more...]
Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics, Expanded Edition, by G. C. van Perlo
The Sunshine Bouquet by Michael McGuerty Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics, Expanded Edition, by G. C. van Perlo, New In Chess 2014, Paperback, 607pp. $34.95 (ChessCafe.com Price $29.70) Dutch correspondence grandmaster Ger van Perlo (1932-2010) spent thirty years collecting endgames that caught his eye and had "a particular charm." These were first published in the Dutch language in four volumes, and were collected into one volume for the 2006 English first edition of Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics. That first edition won both the ChessCafe.com Book of the Year Award and the ECF Book of the Year Award. It offered around 1,105 examples of endgame tricks and clever traps, and it was reprinted … [Read more...]
Chess Insider: Norway Chess 2014, by Chessdom
Deep Annotations from Norway by Steve Goldberg Chess Insider: Norway Chess 2014, by Chessdom, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Download, $16.95 The ten-player round robin event at the Norway Chess 2014 super-tournament took place in early June 2014. Chess Insider: Norway Chess 2014 offers in-depth analysis of eighteen of the forty-five game from the event via a downloadable bundle of PDF, PGN, and ChessBase files. The ten participants, including the current world champion and two former world champions, are as follows: Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronian Aleksander Grischuk Fabiano Caruana Vladimir Kramnik Veselin Topalov Sergey Karjakin Peter Svidler Anish Giri Simen … [Read more...]
Mikhail Tal: 8th World Champion by ChessOK
The Games of Mikhail Tal by Michael McGuerty Mikhail Tal: 8th World Champion by ChessOK, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Download, $25.00 (ChessCafe Price $21.17) Mikhail Tal: 8th World Champion is a downloadable course designed for the free Peshka graphical interface. It is described by the publisher as follows: "The most complete collection of Tal's games ever compiled. Contains 2,592 games, covering the entire career of the most brilliant attacking chessplayer in history. All the games thoroughly annotated by GMs Khalifman, Kochiev, Makarichev, Sveshnikov, Yudasin, and Petersburg IMs. Plus 260 carefully chosen quiz positions on the basis of both strong and beautiful moves played by … [Read more...]
Modernized: The King’s Indian Defense, by Dejan Bojkov
An Original and Exciting Book by Michael Goeller Modernized: The King's Indian Defense, by Dejan Bojkov, Metropolitan Chess Publishing 2014, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Paperback, 365pp. $24.99 (ChessCafe Price: $21.27) One of the most original King's Indian repertoire books to appear in print is GM Dejan Bojkov's Modernized: The King's Indian Defense. I was so taken by the repertoire that I decided to check out some of GM Bojkov's games with the lines he recommends, and I have written up Dejan Bojkov Plays the Modernized KID (in PGN) to give you an overview of his system. Most repertoire books lead KID players toward a closed center to play for an attack on the kingside, as in the … [Read more...]
Bobby Fischer: 11th World Champion, by ChessOK
Fischer Games and Puzzles by Steve Goldberg Bobby Fischer: 11th World Champion, by ChessOK, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Download, $19.95 (ChessCafe Price: $17.97) Bobby Fischer: 11th World Champion is a downloadable course designed for the free Peshka graphical interface. For those users who would like to try it out, the Peshka program comes preloaded with a free training course called Play Like Botvinnik. Those who have some familiarity with this ChessOK software will be able to quickly launch into this program. Others will likely require some time before they feel comfortable with the various controls. While there is a user guide available, I suspect most users will navigate around … [Read more...]
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