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Summary: Instruction in middle game strategies by former world champ.
Review: Euwe shoots for the amateur and is right on target. 'A' players and below find the weak spots in Master strategy and gain confidence in Euwe's text that illustrates that amateurs can defeat stronger opposition by excluding inferior moves from their middle game play. The first in a genre that has been duplicated for twenty years but not exceeded. A current pretender is Jeremy Silman's 'Improve Your Chess'.
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Summary: Master vs. Amateur games annotated by former champ.
Review: Euwe's books are always highly instructive, and this is no exception. Annotated for intermediate level players. As good as this genre gets, which includes Chernev's "Most Instructive Games Ever Played," "Logical Chess," and Pandolfini's "Russian Chess." The Dover edition is a high-quality paperback at great price. Descriptive notation. See also Euwe's "Road to Chess Mastery."
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Summary: Master vs. Amateur games annotated by former champ.
Review: Euwe's books are always highly instructive, and this is no exception. Annotated for intermediate level players. As good as this genre gets, which includes Chernev's "Most Instructive Games Ever Played," "Logical Chess," and Pandolfini's "Russian Chess." The Dover edition is a high-quality paperback at great price. Descriptive notation. See also Euwe's "Road to Chess Mastery."
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Summary: Tremendous introductory book
Review: For novices struggling to make sense of what is happening and why, when things go awry, "Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur" cannot be surpassed. This book along with "Learn from the Grandmasters" produced the single greatest leap in my humble ability assess the 64 squares some twenty+ years ago.
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Summary: what better way to beat other amateurs? and beyond.
Review: i bought this book 3 months ago and have enjoyed it very much. some readers have brought up how it uses old openings, but i think that is beyond the point. this book will teach you how to look for the better moves, and explains to you why certain moves are weak. I play alot of games at yahoo and i cannot tell you how many times i see alot of positions that my competitors use as examples on this book! i went from being 20 games below the .500 mark to 15 games above!! from a 1200 rating to 1490!! i know its only yahoo, but hey its a start!! i do occasinally run into guys who are into the latest openings, and they do give me a scare in the begining, but after a while i do give a good fight, and have been pretty succesfull lately. this is the perfect "first book of chess" or if you only wanted one book this would be it.
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Summary: The Best Chess Book Ever
Review: I gave this book to my brother as a gift and he says it's the best chess book he's ever read. He has approximately 50 chess books, but he liked this one because it told him not only the best moves, but also why other choices aren't as good.
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Summary: An excellent book for a beginner
Review: I learned how to play chess from this book some 20 years ago, and there are very few better books I would recommend to a beginner. Max Euwe has an amazing gift for clarifying tactical and strategic ideas in chess; he was the world champion from 1935 to 1937. Every game is explained move-by-move,and the reader is gently guided through the whole game. If you are new to chess, or if you are an amateur eager to improve your game, this book is a must.
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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: I rate this book " Chess Master v/s Chess Ameture" as 5 stars because it is excellent book for developing logical and strategic thinking for the beginners. Though the opening mistakes by ameture shown are not very common and the other book by the same authors "The Road to Chess Mastery" (TRtCM) is more realistic. I found the games on French Defence very good for myself. The other book TRtCM does not cover the French Defence and is slightly heavy to understand and analyze for beginners. So if you are a beginner or a lower middle level player who wants to develop a clear cut thinking in chess strategy without devoting much time and energy, this book is for you. After studying it, you may go to TRtCM.
I have studied this book and it has worked well for me.Pros:
1. Very clear thinking and explanations.
2. French Defence (4 games) very useful
3. Full Games
4. Good for learning opening and middle game strategy
5. Introductory portions are well written
6. The writer is an authority and so you will like the confidence with which he instructs you. Wonderful annotations.
7. Very good treatment of Marshal Variation of Queen's gambit declined which is still played by many. I benefitted by the games of this variation in real tourneys. Cons:
1. Not very realistic mistakes (silly sometimes) by the ameture.
2. Does not cover many variations commonly played nowadays in tournaments
3. Some printing mistakes (2-3 only).
4. Needs a board to understand the games fully.
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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: I rate this book " Chess Master v/s Chess Ameture" as 5 stars because it is excellent book for developing logical and strategic thinking for the beginners. Though the opening mistakes by ameture shown are not very common and the other book by the same authors "The Road to Chess Mastery" (TRtCM) is more realistic. I found the games on French Defence very good for myself. The other book TRtCM does not cover the French Defence and is slightly heavy to understand and analyze for beginners. So if you are a beginner or a lower middle level player who wants to develop a clear cut thinking in chess strategy without devoting much time and energy, this book is for you. After studying it, you may go to TRtCM.
I have studied this book and it has worked well for me. Pros:
1. Very clear thinking and explanations.
2. French Defence (4 games) very useful
3. Full Games
4. Good for learning opening and middle game strategy
5. Introductory portions are well written
6. The writer is an authority and so you will like the confidence with which he instructs you. Wonderful annotations.
7. Very good treatment of Marshal Variation of Queen's gambit declined which is still played by many. I benefitted by the games of this variation in real tourneys. Cons:
1. Not very realistic mistakes (silly sometimes) by the ameture.
2. Does not cover many variations commonly played nowadays in tournaments
3. Some printing mistakes (2-3 only).
4. Needs a board to understand the games fully.
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Summary: Great book despite flaws
Review: I use Fritz 8 to study my books, so I can go through the variations and see the state of the game with ease. With that in mind, there are some flaws in this book, three most notable: 1) Moves made by the amateur described as "the decisive error" are sometimes the ones that the million-move-monster recommends
2) The master in question sometimes makes less than perfect moves, and a few crushing tactical opportunities were missed
3) There are at least 3 errors in analysis per game. For example, in Game 19, 13. ...Re8 is billed as "the only move," when it leads to forced mate in 5. 13. ...Nf6! 14. exf6 Bf5! holds the game for Black; White is still better but immediate mate is out of sight. However, these errors do not detract from the instructive quality of the book at all. It still does its job very well: Explaining why many common amateur moves are inferior (and showing how to exploit them), and teaching a great deal about strategy. I learned much from reading it. So will you.
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