Interview with IM John Watson
with Fred Wilson


HISTORICAL

WC at 3rd attempt

Selected games of Portisch (barnis?)
Tal's best game

Nimzowith Repraisal

Keres 1951 -- Best games

1851-1950 Decisive Games

Larson's

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Anand's best games
2 vol rubenstein's games
Storming the barricade
Modern chess masterpieces

Fire on Board
Korchnoi's Best Games vol I and II
Kramnik's best games

top Hungarian --

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Instructional training
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mid-range
1400-2000

Best Lessons of a Chess Coach


Excelling in Chess
Excelling in Positional Chess (1800-2000)
Silman (reassess your chess, amateur's mind)
Logical chess Move by Move
Pawn Structure Chess by Soltis


Weapons of Chess (Pandolfini)
Complete's Idiot's Guide Wolff
Comprehensive Chess Course (v 1 and ii)
101 Q on how to play chess

2000-2200
preview chess now
Soviet Chess Convention (
Road to ch Improvement
Winner: Mark Dvortesky -- Positional Play


MIDDLEGAMES
Dynamic Pawn Play
Pacman's Chess Strategy books 3 volumes
(Creative Chess Strategy is okay...)


OPENINGS
late 60's

Batsford
KID by Harsten, , keene
Pirc and Modern (Keene,
Benoni and Pirc by Nunn

QGD 1970s --
Play the Queen's Gambit (Marion)

2 vols of Winawer

Winner in category: How to Open the Chess Game (by larsen, keres, petrosian, Evans, Gligoric)

80-1995
Slav Defense (4 books, Donaldson)
Complete Benoni
Beating The Sicilian (John Nunn)
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Ray Keene's opening book Nf3 c4
John Donaldson


Beating the Sicilian

Modern Benoni

Leningrad Dutch
Qg4 in the French

Slav Defense
Pirc

Peter Welch (wells?) -- Scotch Gambit

Patterson's 2 slavs

Easy Guide to the Nimzo's Indian

Trompowsky (Peter Wells)

chesspublishing.com

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HISTORY
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Akiba Rubenstein
Reliable Past
Winter's Capablanca
Life and Games of Tigran Petrosian

Autobiography of Benko
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TACTICS books recommended by Fred Wilson
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Encyclop Ch Middlegames
magic of chess tactics
Lev Alburt's chess traning pocket book

chess tactics
303 Fred Wilson
303 Fred Wilson

MV Blokh The Art of Combination

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ENDGAMES
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Endgame lessons -- Benko (chesslife columns, self-published)
Speelman's 2 book engame prep and one more
Engame Virutoso
Korchnoi's endgame book (2001)
Engame Strategy :: Devoretsky
Vander heijden Endgame study database (chessbase disk)

(Miller) Fundamental Chess Endings (muller and lambrect)

Rook and Pawn
Practical Chess Endgames --
(Keres)

March 23rd


Tico-eTeco whispers: F8 no understend nothing of chess


Feb 27th
PoeticFuture kibitzes: you're only as old as the woman you feel



munch whispers: Try to walk a mile in someone elses shoes. Then you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.

Thus Spake Roman

"White is in no danger of gaining an advantage."


"Boo Boo Boo is a good reaction. We don't care what the reason is, we don't want to see draws.
We want to see blood, and we don't care whose blood it is, as long as it is not ours."


Used to be a grandmaster. Who am I? It is so early in the morning. If he can ask later....
I used to play chess. Then I got bored and now I play other games.


That is an interesting move by Van Wely. The position itself is lot less interesting.

A mouse slip? No, Bc4 is not a mouse slip. A brain slip, maybe!

Who cares about the b7 pawn? The threat is that Black may get mated. Once you get mated, it is very difficult to come back from that.

Chess Book

Chess Software User's Guide by Byron Jacobs, Jacob Aagaard & John Emms, 2003 Everyman Chess, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Paperback, 128pp., $19.95.