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| Posted by certainratio mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 08:32:43 Play online chess |  Subject: chess book giveawayMessage: I am quitting chess so that I may pursue mathematics with all of my energies. Thus, I no longer have need for my chess books. I would like to see them get a good home, though. I would like to mail them to anyone in the United States who might like to have them. The books are: _Test Your Endgame Ability_ by Jon Speelman 522 startling and breathtaking endings with complete solutions. Not for the beginner. _Pandolfini's Endgame Course_ by Bruce Pandolfini 239 basic endgames. A good first course in endgames. _Kasparov and Deep Blue_ by Bruce Pandolfini Complete analysis of the 1997 match and a record of the 1996 match. The analysis is easy to follow and there are entertaining sidebars. _Winning with the Smith-Morra Gambit_ by Graham Burgess 190 pages of dense analysis in the context of actual GM games. Not for the beginning student of opening theory. _The Closed Spanish: Karpoz/Zaitsev Systems_ by Anatoly Bikhovsky 130 pages of dense analysis with actual games. _Chess Master...At Any Age_ by Rolf Wetzell An inspirational book if nothing else. The book answers these questions: What makes up chess strength? How does chess strength typically change? What are the most effective, most efficient means to improve chess strength? Besides giving some chess instruction, the author tells how to study, think, lose misconceptions, and overcome. If you are interested in acquiring any of these books, reply here. I would like to see these books go to the right people. If you already have a big chess library full of half-read books, please give someone else a chance. The openings books should go to strong players, preferably to people interested in those particular openings. The _Chess Master..._ book should go to someone who is not young and who has reached a plateau in playing strength. Pandolfini's endgame book is good for an under 1600 player who hasn't studied the endgame before. The other endgame book should go to someone who has a lot of time on their hands and enjoys solving difficult endgame studies--probably someone over 1600. Please respond here stating the titles of 1, 2, or 3 books that you would like to own. First come, first serve. The queue of messages in this thread will be proof of who asked first. There is no charge. I will pay the postage. -Beau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by certainratio mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 08:34:44 Play online chess | remember Message: I would like to keep my costs down by mailing these books only within the United States. Sorry. Besides, the United States could use some help in the chess world. -Beau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by mettlesome mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 08:54:41 Play online chess | Oh come on.... Message: Keep them, you'll want them one day.... Lots of people take up chess after a few years away and remeber their first chess books with misty tears in their eyes.... Mettlesome ——— Chess: last of the brilliant Andersson manoeuvres — The positional master notes the seriousness of the situation – then fixes it. We conclude our survey of Ulf Andersson's positional play. White is threatening to manoeuvre the knight into e5, very much like the position from last week. How do you counter? RB: I haven't been doing too well with the Andersson positions. They've been too subtle for me, and this one seems beyond my powers as well. Can I stop the knight manoeuvre? 1…Nc6 doesn't help. White continues 2 Nf3 and makes the hop to e5 at his convenience. Since I can't stop the knight coming to e5, perhaps I should be making threats of my own. I can't see anything on the queenside – 1…a4 2 Ba2 leads to ... Posted by certainratio | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 09:11:17 Play online chess but...Message: For one, I've already read them (mostly). Two, I really need to purge myself of everything related to chess...it is eating away at my time. Three, I only bought them because I had plans of some day becoming the World Champion, and now I am resigned to the fact that this could never happen. Ah...the woes of a perfectionist. ——— Pitching a Perfect Chess Game — Asked to name his best chess game, the legendary Bobby Fischer pointed to his encounter with Donald Byrne from the Rosenwald Trophy in New York in 1956, but admitted it wasn't perfect. "There is no perfect game in chess," he said. After all, we are human and we make mistakes. But according to the Hungarian writer and International Master Tibor Karolyi, Anatoly Karpov came close to playing a mistake-free game at the 1974 chess olympiad in Nice, France, and only a tiny error deprived him of creating a perfect game. It was played when we met on the top board of the USA-USSR match. It became one of Karpov's most analyzed chess games. Of the 17 games we played against each other in major chess competitions in ... Posted by v_glorioso12 | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 16:06:13 Play online chess ummm...Message: i was thinking... what would _Chess Master...At Any Age_ by Rolf Wetzell be for? am i probably around who should read it? ——— Young Generation's Best Skip a World Title Event — At the recent World Junior Chess Championship in Chennai, India, Dariusz Swiercz of Poland, 17, won the overall title, and Cori T. Deysi of Peru, 18, captured the girls’ crown. Twenty years ago, junior chess champions were considered up-and-comers, possibly future world chess champions. Swiercz and Deysi are certainly talented, but it is a measure of how much the game has changed that they are overshadowed by some of their contemporaries. Consider that on the day before the chess championship ended, Hou Yifan easily won the Women’s Grand Prix in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, a chess tournament that included 8 of the top 12 women in the world. Hou is 17 — eight months younger than ... Posted by tulkos | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 16:43:35 Play online chess well,Message: I need to learn the endings, I think Pandolfini's Endgame Course would be some I could learn from a lot. since you have offered, I would like that book. ——— World Junior Championships still strong despite absence of British names — The World Junior Chess Championship has had some illustrious winners. Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand all captured the Under-20 contest en route to the supreme title. Nowadays some top teenage GMs bypass it, but it remains a strong chess event. England's only world junior gold medallist was the late Tony Miles in 1974. Nigel Short was second to Kasparov in 1980. The latest World Junior ended this week in Chennai, India, where UK chess players were absent due to the clash with the British Chess Championship at Sheffield. The World Junior's venue was no accident. Chennai is the home city of Anand and Indian officials, concerned at the steady rise of China, are becoming more ... Posted by tulkos | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 16:45:24 Play online chess *oops, I meantMessage: *something. ——— The lessons of history, in chess — The King’s Gambit is an aggressive chess opening for white that was popularized in the 1600’s by the Italians. The opening is still popular today. It begins with white advancing its e2 pawn to e4, black responding with pawn to e5, followed by white playing f2 to f4 and offering the pawn. Alessandro Salvio was Italian and the best chess player at about the same time Shakespeare was writing “Hamlet and King Lear.” Salvio, like Shakespeare, wrote poetry and also authored several books on chess and created the Salvio Gambit line in the King’s Gambit. This week’s position is from Salvio’s line and contribution to the King’s Gambit. The opening moves preceding this week’s position are ... Posted by druleeparsec | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 16:47:00 Play online chess Message: I'm sorry to hear that you're thinking of putting chess aside. But I also wish you well in your math pursuits. Can you believe it? One of my chess goals/new year's resolutions was not to buy any more chess books this year (read the ones I have instead). So even though you're giving them away I'd still have a tough time explaining to my wife "No honey I didn't 'buy' them. Honest!" Best of luck to you. Posted by v_glorioso12 | mailcafe.net 1/09/2003 17:07:41 Play online chess PEGCMessage: had A LOT OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS!! Posted by skeeterss0 | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 07:30:26 Play online chess Would love to have this book.Message: _Winning with the Smith-Morra Gambit_ by Graham Burgess I'm just getting back into chess...and I am in need of good material to read up on. I would Love to have this Smith-Morra Gambit book. I am even willing to pay the postage if you like. Email me and I can give you my address. My email address is scott_seder@hotmail.com......thnx Scott Posted by tulkos | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 08:56:39 Play online chess Thats a good idea.Message: I will pay postage for either The Closed Spanish or Pandolfini's endgame course. Posted by mettlesome | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 11:00:47 Play online chess certainratioMessage: As I said a lot of people end up coming back to chess when they're ready for it, but I heartily respect your decision to leave chess...... BUT.....honestly, everyone needs something to do on their own (even if a close and happy marriage), and I think that chess is (if you keep it in it's place! (and don't spend hours and hours in front of the computer alone, ignoring your wife and family...............) Anyway....I was saying that it's actually a GREAT past-time......no hanging out with the boys down at the local caf (read 'pub' in many countries) to watch the football, no Wednesday night training sessions folowed by the game on Saturday for those rugby or League players........ Well, you get the idea, you can be a chess player (even a GOOD chess player) AND have a normal life.... Anyway, just food for thought.... Mettlesome Posted by jaflake | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 11:52:56 Play online chess Message: First of all, I have no idea why you would want to get rid of your books, but I cannot refuse the offer. I need a good match book, so could I get the the Kasparov and Deep Blue book? Of course, I couldn't let you pay the shipping cost, so I would cover it. Posted by ordinary_man | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 14:19:28 Play online chess I for one....Message: would love to read Chess MAster at any Age! If it is up for grabs I would gladly pay for the shipping. thanks Posted by certainratio | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 14:53:33 Play online chess not goneMessage: I'll be back Monday to sort through these messages. Posted by t0ned0g | mailcafe.net 1/10/2003 17:43:55 Play online chess Message: I wouldn't mind the endgame book by Spielmann......or the Smith morra book! Posted by triangulator | mailcafe.net 1/11/2003 18:39:46 Play online chess hey coolMessage: could I have "_Kasparov and Deep Blue_ by Bruce Pandolfini" I live in OK and I got a ton o my own money, if it is to much to send it I could pay you for the shipping- e-mail me at swimfan111@yahoo.com Posted by triangulator | mailcafe.net 1/11/2003 18:39:47 Play online chess hey coolMessage: could I have "_Kasparov and Deep Blue_ by Bruce Pandolfini" I live in OK and I got a ton o my own money, if it is to much to send it I could pay you for the shipping- e-mail me at swimfan111@yahoo.com Posted by triangulator | mailcafe.net 1/11/2003 18:42:22 Play online chess andMessage: sorry you are leaving, good luck to you and your new carrer- and tulkos- do you want both of those books, or just 1- just asking cus you phrased it like you wanted 1 or the other Posted by certainratio | mailcafe.net 1/13/2003 06:36:52 Play online chess final selectionsMessage: Thanks for responding, and sorry to those of you who requested a book that had already been requested. Here is who I will give the books to: 1. Speelman (Endgame) t0ned0g 2. Pandolfini (Endgame) tulkos 3. Pandolfini (Deep Blue) jaflake 4. Burgess (Smith-Morra) skeeterss0 5. Bikhovsky (Closed Spanish) tulkos 6. Wetzell (Chess Master) ordinary_man I have skeeterss0's email and I will write to request his mailing address. The rest of you can send me a private message, giving me your mailing address, or if you prefer, an email address where I can write to request your mailing address. Thanks also to those of you who offered to pay the shipping cost. I may take you up on that. I think there is a book rate at the post office that should be pretty low. If it is only a dollar per book, I don't want to bother anyone with sending a check back to me through the mail with a 40 cent postage stamp (actually, I don't recall right now how much a stamp costs!). I never did this before, but does anyone know if the post office allows one to send packages through the mail without paying, with the promise that the party at the receiving end will pay the postage? I don't know how that works. By the way, the books are all in at least fair condition, and most are in excellent condition. Posted by kingcrusher22 | mailcafe.net 3/02/2003 20:54:59 Play online chess So you have No more?Message: I would love to start to study the game of chess but I have no books... I would love to have one so if u have any more I would love for you to let me know... thanx and good luck with your math Posted by honololou | mailcafe.net 3/02/2003 21:01:39 Play online chess kingcrusherMessage: see this post: gameknot.com/fmsg/chess/1900.shtml |