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Summary: Learning through Enjoyment!...
Review: Both fun and informative to read. Beginners will receive a useful introduction to tactics and elements of strategy while intermediate players can review concepts they "know." I liked Josh Waitzkin's background notes to his examples - chess books can be so dry and uninviting. I feel that books that are more user-friendly are more likely to be read and studied than definitive bone-dry dissections of an author's triumphs. If you have Chessmaster 6000 then you've heard and studied Waitzkin's games - why can't more masters add a little life to their annotations? I'd rather be caught up in the adrenaline-pumping, nail-biting anxiety, of a master's game (and learn more) than lifelessly (and tiredly) shuffling the pieces around. Better one game lived with a master than a dozen studied as though it was a calculus problem.
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Summary: Learning through Enjoyment!...
Review: Both fun and informative to read. Beginners will receive a useful introduction to tactics and elements of strategy while intermediate players can review concepts they "know." I liked Josh Waitzkin's background notes to his examples - chess books can be so dry and uninviting. I feel that books that are more user-friendly are more likely to be read and studied than definitive bone-dry dissections of an author's triumphs. If you have Chessmaster 6000 then you've heard and studied Waitzkin's games - why can't more masters add a little life to their annotations? I'd rather be caught up in the adrenaline-pumping, nail-biting anxiety, of a master's game (and learn more) than lifelessly (and tiredly) shuffling the pieces around. Better one game lived with a master than a dozen studied as though it was a calculus problem.
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Summary: great for intermediate players
Review: Great tactical ideas and explanations, more than enough diagrams.
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Summary: Josh Waitzkin
Review: Heh, I just played Josh W in a 3 grueling chess games....I'm an average player, and hes a grand master...and ofcourse he won...Oh yeah about his book, buy it if you're a beginner, but as for pre-interm and higher, don't bother...goto the library and look up chess... also pick up Chess Master 7000 from the stores, it's a great version to help you with your passion of chess.
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Summary: Josh Waitzkin
Review: Heh, I just played Josh W in a 3 grueling chess games....I'm an average player, and hes a grand master...and ofcourse he won...Oh yeah about his book, buy it if you're a beginner, but as for pre-interm and higher, don't bother...goto the library and look up chess... also pick up Chess Master 7000 from the stores, it's a great version to help you with your passion of chess.
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Summary: Excellent tutorial of the basic strategies of chess.
Review: I had been playing chess for a while and had read some books on chess. I read this book on the recommendation of a friend and, even though i already knew a lot of the concepts, the style and examples drew me into a better understanding of the illustrated strategies. Excellent as a first book on strategy on novices or a refresher course for more experienced players, not only of the strategies, but of the thinking and the emotion behind the decisions players have to make at the chess board.
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Summary: Why another chess book like this?
Review: If you are like me and find that a good number of the chess books out there are to hard to follow and or put you to sleep in the first couple pages then this book is for you. Josh does more than teach you principles of attack that lead to checkmate, material advantage, and or positional advantage. He does teach you principles but he also encourages you to think. He is constantly quoting his mentor Bruce Pandolfini and telling you to work out the position at hand, "don't look at the solution until you've worked out each variation." Then when you go to the solution he doesn't just give you the answer but helps you to see what he was thinking when he was working out the variations. For me Josh is the most understandable chess teacher I've found and this book is no exception. It's a can't put it down book, quite the opposite of far too many chess books!!!addendum, I am not a master or even close. Obviously if you are a master or a gm this book will have little that you don't already know.
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Summary: Readable and worthwile
Review: If you are like me and find that a good number of the chess books out there are to hard to follow and or put you to sleep in the first couple pages then this book is for you. Josh does more than teach you principles of attack that lead to checkmate, material advantage, and or positional advantage. He does teach you principles but he also encourages you to think. He is constantly quoting his mentor Bruce Pandolfini and telling you to work out the position at hand, "don't look at the solution until you've worked out each variation." Then when you go to the solution he doesn't just give you the answer but helps you to see what he was thinking when he was working out the variations. For me Josh is the most understandable chess teacher I've found and this book is no exception. It's a can't put it down book, quite the opposite of far too many chess books!!! addendum, I am not a master or even close. Obviously if you are a master or a gm this book will have little that you don't already know.
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Summary: A fresh survey of tactics for chess players of any strength
Review: If you're looking for a fun, easy to read survey of the tactics used by the cream of the chess playing crop, "Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess" is for you. True, there are many books on tactical chess that will give you a more comprehensive study of each tactic. However, these books rarely give you what Josh (subject of the book and film "Searching for Bobby Fischer") gives with nearly every example, that is, the behind the scenes story and the raw emotions of the moment that give the reader an engaging look into the process of thinking tactically at the chessboard. The book is geared toward beginners, but even more experienced tacticians can appreciate and enjoy this refreshing presentation of the gritty world of chess tactics.
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Summary: A fresh survey of tactics for chess players of any strength
Review: If you're looking for a fun, easy to read survey of the tactics used by the cream of the chess playing crop, "Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess" is for you. True, there are many books on tactical chess that will give you a more comprehensive study of each tactic. However, these books rarely give you what Josh (subject of the book and film "Searching for Bobby Fischer") gives with nearly every example, that is, the behind the scenes story and the raw emotions of the moment that give the reader an engaging look into the process of thinking tactically at the chessboard. The book is geared toward beginners, but even more experienced tacticians can appreciate and enjoy this refreshing presentation of the gritty world of chess tactics.
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