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This week's review will please any of the chess buffs on campus. As I am not completely familiar with the game, I have the assistance of Daniel Hopkins in writing these reviews. If anyone cares to question further
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Meet the Masters Dr. Max Euwe
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Chessboard Delights‘ Comins Manfield
59pp. $2.25
Selected Chess Games of - Mikhail Tal
J. Hajtun
'145pp. '§2.95
i500 Master Games of Chess .- Tartakower and Dumont 665pp. $6.95
Meet the Masters by Dr. Max ,Euwe. I figure that most c chess buffs will read this thrbugh to the end. So for- those of you who are not freaks but like the game‘ anyway, I'm telling you that this is by far the most in- teresting and readable book of the four. Eight of the greatest players of all time .from Capablanca and Alekhine
_,to Mikhail Botvinnik and
Paul Keres. As all Chess” Buffs know, Dr. Max Euwe is the President of F.I.D.E.and is still living unless he died since the Fisher/Spas- sky match of '72 (F.I.D.E. is the International Organi—
‘zation for Chess). He is de-’
finitely the Veteran Grand Master of the Western World.
Dr. Euwe's biography of, the players is not only in- formative but even enlight- ening. The players are des— cribed in terms of their character and the character- istics of their games.. The various styles and strengths of these top masters are ex— plained in simple prose and their games are given as 11! lustrations. My own prefer— ences as to style tend to .follow Alekhine's. This sec— 'tion and the ones on Kere, Flohr, and Capablanca are the best in the book. But all eight will provide any- one, as they did for me, the greatest pleasure.
Moving On to Chessboard Delights by Comins Mansfield of the British newSpaper,The Sunday Telegraph...of all the books, this is the one that the economist would ne- ver buy for its volume. It is indeed a Delightfor the problemist and the logician; ,Although cheSs may not seem to be logical to the begin— ner, it is to the expert, some of whom became experts by solving lots of difficult and interesting chess pro— blems.
If you want to widen your tactical abilities in chess
in such a manner as to solve,
difficult and aesthetically' good problems, then this is the book for you. However you must pay the price of about two cents a problems
Viand four cents a page.
on" to {mess MastErS " *
However, that's not im- portant. What is important are the wards on the pages which illustrate many of the combinative themes of the last ten or eleven years. The problems are not.the simple two-movers.that are frequently seen and heard' but are the tactical result of positionplay. The qual-
tity of the problems is ex- cellent as are thg notes to
the positions. HoweVer I might point out that it is also a difficult book and there are vaster books of the same quality.
The only reason I would buy 'this book would be because I wanted to supplement my col- lection of chess problems (a collection which, by the way I do not have). Conclu- sion: Don't buy this back unless you are a problem nut. *
The previous two were wr- itten for just about anybody but the following ones are principly for the actual .chess buff and those aspir- ing to be such.
SeleCted Games of.Mikhail Ta; by J. Hajtun.
The tournament fan will find the ideas in this book to beat the more experienced players. Beginners won't un- less their tactical ideas
‘are good for one new to the
game. Tactics are the mark
‘*of Tal. A majority of these
games are immensely tacticaL Unfortunately the reader must be good enough to see all the combinations and sub-varia- tions himself. The author gives merely the main lines most of the time, a fault which affects many writersrm chess. However the topic, Tal, is enough to compensate for this shortcoming. Tal is one of a dozen men to have become the world chess cham— poin since 1900.
He became world champoin by besting Botvinnik: 1214-892 in 1960. During the run up to champ9§n he displayed a tactical strategy unmatched before by anyone eXcept Al- ekhine. The Black Panther,as he was nicknamed by the Press is still a prime candidate f0 world champoin and takes an act part in many master to-
vurnaments.
Anyone who enjoys a good game will also delight in the fine works of Tal. This book is a bed for breeding ideas for~combinations for
‘anyone who studies it. It
will develop the handling of the pieces in a tacticaly difficult position of any player.
The last of these books is the best of them — 299 Master games of chessghx
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