EDUCAÇAO FÍSICA PROFESSOR WILLIAM PEREIRA: ChessCafe.com Weekly Newsletter, May 6

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Book Notes

Chess Opening Essentials is a series of accessible primer and reference books that provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. It explains the ideas and plans behind all chess openings. Volume 2 covers 1 d4 d5 and Volume 3 covers the Indian Defenses.

The Batsford reissue of My 60 Memorable Games is in stock and shipping! This is the edition of Fischer’s masterpiece that you have been waiting for. It retains the format and unaltered text of the original, while the moves and notation have been converted to figurine algebraic notation.

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Reviews in Brief

Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess
by Tibor Karolyi & Nick Aplin

This was written as an imaginary sixth volume in Kasparov’s My Great Predecessor series in which the authors write in the first-person, taking on the role of “virtual Garry Kasparov,” where he blames each of seventy defeats on the bad influence of the previous world champions. The authors note that the idea began as a series of satirical magazine articles, but that it soon grew into a whole book. In fact, one could see it working well in that medium as the joke is best served in small doses.

In essence what the authors have done is to take a position from a game that Kasparov lost, find a similar position from which one of the past world champions won, and annotate both with “VK” pointing out how he was misled by the study of those games. In some cases the positions are strikingly similar, while in others it seems a bit of a stretch. Nevertheless, as the authors indicate, Kasparov’s losses are well worth analyzing, and they have found an imaginative and entertaining way to do so, while also including a good number of games from the other world champions.

My 60 Memorable Games
by Bobby Fischer

To quote from the publisher, “in contrast with the previous edition of this book, no alterations have been made to the text other than the conversion of moves into algebraic notation, making this an updated yet accurate reflection of the original book.” However, it should have been noted that they did surreptitiously correct a few clear-cut errors from the first edition.

Still, this is the edition of Fischer’s masterpiece that you have been waiting for. It retains the format of the original except that the moves and notation have been converted to figurine algebraic notation. First published in 1969, this classic contains sixty of Fischer’s games played between 1957 and 1967 against such luminaries as Botvinnik, Petrosian, Smyslov, Keres, Korchnoi, and many others.

New Catalog Additions

5/4: Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 3
5/3: Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 2
5/2: Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days
5/1: Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him about Chess
4/30: My 60 Memorable Games (2008)
4/24: Foxy Openings, Vol. 80: King’s Gambit, Part 2 (DVD)
4/24: Foxy Openings, Vol. 79: King’s Gambit, Part 1 (DVD)
4/23: Foxy Openings, Vol. 78: Nimzo-Indian (DVD)
4/22: Foxy Openings, Vol. 77: Sicilian Kan (DVD)
4/20: ChessBase Magazine #129 (DVD)
4/19: The Closed Sicilian (DVD)
4/18: Power Play 9: Major Pieces vs. Minor Pieces (DVD)
4/17: Fischer World Champion! (2nd ed.)
4/16: New In Chess Yearbook #90
4/15: Chess Tactics for Champions (restock)
4/14: The Endgame (restock)
4/13: Tiger’s Modern (restock)
4/12: The Berlin Wall (restock)
4/11: Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces (2nd ed.)
4/10: The Sveshnikov Reloaded (restock)
4/9: New In Chess Magazine 2009/2
4/8: A Spanish Repertoire for Black (restock)
4/7: Questions of Modern Chess Theory (restock)
4/6: Practical Chess Defence (restock)