Is Logical Chess Move by Move secretly a good guide to openings? What other move by move chess books are available on the market? Game 28 - leave the pawns and knights at home. Let’s do this in the old manner, your best fighter against mine, and again.

It's not perfect. Describing every move is a great idea in principle, but it does get a little wearisome having to read about 1.e4 for the umpteenth time. The games themselves are as old as the hills. That's not too much of a problem when it comes to the tactics, because tactics never go out of fashion. But you'll sniff at some of the openings which feel like wind-up gramophones in an I-pad age. It also has to be said that some of Chernev's advice is a tad suspect. Weak players instinctively try and free up pawns, anxious against a pin, but it is better to leave the kingside pawns protective and close than get exposed after castling. Bishop greatest effect is controlling important diagonals and pinning (rendering motionless) pieces The rook at D1 acts as a deterrent against the carnage of central pawns, because any clearance of the open file makes the rook that much more dangerous The novice who plays through Logical Chess can learn an ocean of basic chess wisdom." —Leonard Barden, English chess master and broadcasterLet's start with the good news. This is a fabulous book. A classic. If you have more than one chess book, then you have the beginnings of a collection. And no collection would be complete without a copy of "Logical chess". If you haven't got a chess book, then I can think of no better way to start a collection than this one. It's a must have. Developing knights because you know where they belong (C3,F3) compared to Bishops, certainty is your friend. How fianchettoing kingside actually makes the king safer, despite requiring the g-pawn to be pushed. This actually wasn't a major theme of the book, but the author mentioned off-hand at one point that the foanchettoed bishop helps protect the king. After that, I started noticing how many standard mating patterns don't work with the bishop there.

I could not have been more stupid in ignoring this book so long, not to mention being wrong about all of the above.Mentioned: The Scandinavian Defense, Understanding Chess Move by Move by GM John Nunn, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by IM John Watson, Episode 41 with GM Judit Polgar Zwischenzug, in-between-move, where a ranging-piece is able to move fully across the board but stops somewhere in between. It may not be everything you need - another book or two to cover tactics and endgames would also be helpful for a new player. This text focuses purely on strategy. The reason the master didn’t see the path to shorter # is he’s playing out a sequence he’s already seen many moves before, to its inevitable conclusion, that it takes a few moves more is so meaningless. My other complaint is variety. The open games in the first half are very entertaining, but the second half contains too many Queen Gambits. Maybe it's repetition by intention, but at the end it bored me down a little bit.

unmoved pawns and knight at f3 a strong bulwark, but the knight gets too easily pulled away because of its degrees of freedom I had truly written this book off as: a) old with old fashioned explanations; b) written by someone who just "popularized" chess, and not a real player; and c) rumored to be full of errors. Mentioned: Dan Heisman, IM Eric Rosen, Jose Rauol Capablanca, Harry Pillsbury, GM Sam Shankland, Siegbert Tarrasch I'm not sure why I read this book, but I bought it a few years ago for some reason (probably mentioned by some Youtuber) and so I finally finished reading it. Took a long time. Primarily because I have to play it out on an actual board (even though every couple of moves or so, Chernev includes a diagram), so there was decently high activation energy to read it.I started doing the things he said, particularly the things he said over and over, and I started winning games. My rating started climbing up, and it feels like a whole new world of Chess has opened up for me. Games feel more competitive, and I feel less like I just happen to win when I win.

Makes ample use of quotations from other chess legends to corroborate the points that he is making. Chernev was extremely well-read in chess literature, and shares insights of many grandmasters, as these insights are illustrated in the games in this book. Instead of letting White dictate opening by responding E5, respond E6, inviting pressure with compact defense as long as you build up dynamism behind this compaction Mentioned: GM Ben Finegold, Caruana-Vachier-Lagrave 2021, World’s Most Instructive Amateur Game Book by Dan Heisman, IM Cyrus Lakdawala Maybe it's too early in my chess career, but it's not like I remember any of the chess games that were reviewed.

Ruy Lopez (Spanish Opening): follow up e4/e5 f3/c6 normalcy with searing Bb5 that pressures the Knight, and opens line to pinning king’s pawn. Why endgames are so poignant - When material advantage, force a mutual destruction of pieces, endings with only pawns are easiest to win. So poignant game 22, a stonewall defense of playing pawns on first 4 of 5 moves to move the army, leads to a bloodbath of pieces in the center, all protecting pawns that never come into play, then another bloodbath involving the final remaining pieces, after which the side with the passed pawn on the open file simply marches forward to win, leaving a battlefield of only pawns.