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Summary: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Review: I highly recommend this book for the novice to intermediate chess player like myself. I'm just getting started and found this book highly entertaining. Each page has another puzzle. How would you check mate here?? What is whites best move here? Draw an arrow to show blacks next move!! It's a chess workbook, and, it was written by Bobby Fischer, which makes it even more interesting and fun. Most chess books are dry and hard for me to read, this book however was the kind of book that I enjoyed picking up for 5 minutes or 50 minutes, and then put down till next time. I really believe that it helped me see the board a little differently now and has improved my chess. Of course I have along way to go. From a novice point of view, it was a great book. I have recommended it to several parents wanting to get their children interested in chess. Just the fact that Bobby Fischer wrote the first print in 1965 gives you a great feeling when you read it. Many of the problems are hard, but with a little thinking and effort you can figure them out. The answers are always on the following page. It's great.
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Summary: Excellent! But not if you can't use the knowledge yet...
Review: This is a great, wonderful, renowned book, which I am about to read for the second time. It is far and away the easiest-to-read-and-understand book on chess I've ever come across.One big word of warning though: if you have no concept of positional play, this book probably won't help your game too much. When I first read this book, I knew absolutely nothing about chess strategy. After reading this book, I understood checkmating combinations much much much better -- but I never got there! My game was already lost before I got anywhere near being able to exercise the knowledge I had learned. The focus on this book is almost exclusively on checkmating. If you are a total beginner and your primarily goal is to improve your game, I recommend a mid-game book first. Two excellent examples are "My System" by Aron Nimzowisch (a bit outdated, but very nice and possibly the second-easiest-to-understand book on chess) and "How To Reassess Your Chess" by Jerry Silman. Even if you don't know basic strategic principles, this is still a really fun book -- it just might not help your game that much. But if you already know what a passed pawn and an open file is (believe or not, I didn't when I first read this book!) then this book will be both enjoyable and incredibly useful.
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Summary: Good book for a good price
Review: If you're a beginner, reading this book will likely cause your rating to go up a few hundred points. It did for me when I was just starting out. Even if you're an experienced player you could benefit from this book, you may not learn alot of new things but it's good and easy practice. Some folks might be drawn to this book because of the Fischer connection, but I think the reason the book stays successful is because it's great for what it is. I can attribute quite a few wins to the book that involved back-rank checkmates that I may not have seen otherwise.
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Summary: Should be volume one of a 20-book set.
Review: I started by reading all the 1- and 2-star reviews posted here. Almost without exception, all these people wanted to do is complain about how many things were NOT covered in the book. Hello? Chess is a complex game, people! You can't teach everything at once (and you sure as hell wouldn't sell it for eight bucks if you could). Stop worrying about all the things that *aren't* in this book and look at what is. I think it's correct to teach simple one-to-four-move checkmating patterns early on. Checkmate is, after all, the object of the game, and most beginners do forget that. Many of the principles you learn this way can be adapted to other situations when you just want to capture material. I love this book. I don't think there is any faster and more effective way to learn something than to *try* it. If you get it right, you are immediately rewarded to know that you were right, and if you make a mistake, you find out immediately, while all the circuits in your brain that led to the error are still awake and ready to be corrected. It works, and it's also fun. I can pick up this book any time, flip to a random page, and resume quizzing myself. I know that a player with any level of experience will outgrow this book. It's a pity there weren't nineteen more just like it, covering the whole host of other chess topics.
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Summary: A genius work of deception
Review: Guys, listen. This is a genius work of deception. Bobby Fischer is playing with ya'll. He is stroking his own ego with this book. It is a quaint little fairy tale; the fact that he used a "new teaching style" to teach you chess is as much a joke as the rest of it. He's probably being misanthropic somehow, making fun of the people who invented this teaching style or something. But even if he believes in this teaching style, knowing what we do about how good at chess Bobby is, this book is absolutely ludicrous. He presents only a few attacking motifs, and every once in awhile puts in some famous opponent, and MENTIONS that they are famous, to make fun of them. It's a simple analogy, folks: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess means "Bobby Fischer Plays Chess With Grandmasters and Makes Them Look Like Children."
Also, read the last page: he's talking about "old opponents who have not taken the program." As if grandmasters (e.g. Pal Benko) obviously NEED this simplistic program, because they're so ridiculously bad at chess. p.s. notice the wording of the questions. The wording clearly indicates a 'yes' or 'no' answer. If it's yes, he says "Can White mate?" or if it's no, he says "Does this lead to mate?" And it's consistently that way, it's no accident. He's making fun of the reader for even reading the book, in my opinion.
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Summary: Classical chess book.
Review: This book is good because it shows you a lot of checkmating and finding traps. I didn't want to stop reading this book it was so great that I kept reading it. This is one of my Favorites of all chess books. The book has a lot of his secrets.
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Summary: This book is great
Review: Bobby Fischer is an International Grandmaster. He has a lot of hard questions and mostly says find mate. the book has parts on the pages upsidedown and has it turned the other way. I loved this book he even has questions asking whats the winning move. This book is small about 5 inches tall and 3 inches wide.
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Summary: This is the greatest chess book I have ever read
Review: This book had mostly find mate and the farther you get the harder it is. It sometimes has page parts upsidedown.
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Summary: Nice book; good for beginners and advanced players.
Review: If you want a good book on checkmating, then buy this. It's nice and cheap, and will most likely improve your game (especially if you're a beginner). It's simple, and a chess board is not needed. Although I got a little bored of the same questions, this is a must-have for people who are starting off and wish to improve.
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Summary: Fischer Couldn't Have Written This
Review: Bobby Fischer has been considered by many as the greatest chess player of all time.
If he wrote this book, for real, he is certainly not a good writer or teacher. This book DOESN'T TEACH CHESS.
Each page is a very simple chess problem to work on - yes, an entire page with overgrown diagram (I am a kid - but don't need the baby stuff). There is no explanation of ideas - just solutions given to you in moves.
If you want a book to teach the basics get CHESS FOR JUNIORS. I loved that one and it gives you real lessons.
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