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Summary: Good chess puzzle book
Review: 101 chess puzzles taken from positions from Bobby Fischer's games. This is a good practice book to sharpen your tactics and imagination, as it takes inspiration to discover some of the ideas in these positions.
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Summary: Pandolfini's analysis is more than worth it! Nice collection
Review: As it is said, there are atmost one/two moves in a chess game that decides the fate of it, this book is a collection of such moves and such moments of the games where one move makes the difference.In many of the games Fischer is lagging pieces, the game suddenly ends while the opponents pieces helplessly watch (and some cased help by hindering the king move) while the kingdom crumbles down to its knees. I am not a pro, I usually lose against players with rating 2300 and above, many of the moves have been eye openers for me, while in all honesty some of the moves are very predictable. If this book creates a aura of Fischer never losing, I'll strongly suggest 'How to beat Bobby Fischer' in addition to this book.
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Summary: How good was Bobby Fischer?
Review: I find a lot of negative comments about Fischer on the web, but this book shows you the genius of Fischer. I'm only able to get around 20% of the answers correct. It's not a book that will teach you openings, endgames, etc, but it is a fun book to see how you compare to Fischer in solving tactical problems from his games.
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Summary: Fischer's Name = Money
Review: In the world of chess, Bobby Fischer's name actually equals money. Here is a cheap book exploiting his name for the sake of making a few extra bucks. I'm sure Bruce Pandolfini made a couple of dollars from this book, but Fischer himself did not get a penny.
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Summary: Not an instructional chess book, but ok
Review: This book is more like a novel rather than an instructional chess book. The book presents no strategies or tips to learn, just Fischer's remarkable one-move responses to difficult chess problems. As with any chess book that analyses a game between two grandmasters, this book will be over the heads of beginners and even intermediate players. Pandolfini provides some details of a game that Bobby Fischer won, shows the arrangement of the pieces, offers a clue, and you have to guess what Fischer's winning move was, the answer of which is at the bottom of the page. He puts a number (1-5) at the top to indicate the difficulty level of finding the solution to the chess problem. The games don't seem to be in any particular order; I think he should have arranged them into five chapters, one for each level of difficulty. It's not the type of book I would recommend for improvement in chess, but it can help the reader to appreciate the beauty of chess and the consumate skill of Bobby Fischer. It shows you that with even the most complex chess situation, there is a simple move waiting to be discovered.
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Summary: Not an instructional chess book, but ok
Review: This book is more like a novel rather than an instructional chess book. The book presents no strategies or tips to learn, just Fischer's remarkable one-move responses to difficult chess problems. As with any chess book that analyses a game between two grandmasters, this book will be over the heads of beginners and even intermediate players. Pandolfini provides some details of a game that Bobby Fischer won, shows the arrangement of the pieces, offers a clue, and you have to guess what Fischer's winning move was, the answer of which is at the bottom of the page. He puts a number (1-5) at the top to indicate the difficulty level of finding the solution to the chess problem. The games don't seem to be in any particular order; I think he should have arranged them into five chapters, one for each level of difficulty. It's not the type of book I would recommend for improvement in chess, but it can help the reader to appreciate the beauty of chess and the consumate skill of Bobby Fischer. It shows you that with even the most complex chess situation, there is a simple move waiting to be discovered.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This book is quite interesting. Neat to play through. The entire games are listed in the back of the book, which I also used to evaluate Fischer's approach to the openings. It's not a tutorial or teaching book. Reading it is more like finding a cool gadget; get's your attention, but not long term...
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This book is quite interesting. Neat to play through. The entire games are listed in the back of the book, which I also used to evaluate Fischer's approach to the openings. It's not a tutorial or teaching book. Reading it is more like finding a cool gadget; get's your attention, but not long term...
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Summary: Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
Review: This is a fine chess book but it is not intended to be a typical study of chess strategy. You don't need a board (although it might be helpful at times) to enjoy it. You can browse through it easily and try to match your skills against Fischer in specific end game situations.
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Summary: Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
Review: This is a fine chess book but it is not intended to be a typical study of chess strategy. You don't need a board (although it might be helpful at times) to enjoy it. You can browse through it easily and try to match your skills against Fischer in specific end game situations.
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