cool chess book

how to defend in chess, by colin crouch.


i dont even play chess anymore, but picked this book up because its pretty good and has a lot of diagrams so i can follow along.


brad

Crouch is an ok writer. I liked his story on the Hastings Premier won jointly by Polgar/Bareev a few years back.


But I think playing defense in chess is not something you can be taught. You either have the intestinal fortitude to sit there and grovel or you don't.

youre the player, not me, but the reason i like th book is because he goes over some games by lasker and petrosian, a lot of games that chess players know, and talks about them in historical terms and stuff, and i just like it.


brad

"You either have the intestinal fortitude to sit there and grovel or you don't. "

**But I think playing defense in chess is not something you can be taught. You either have the intestinal fortitude to sit there and grovel or you don't.


I can grovel with the best of them...


SPM,...if you can't beat them ware them out...

I think in our game, I proved I'm not above grovelling for a draw!

Crouch wrote a good endgame book with Mednis - I think it was called "test your endgame" or something to that effect. I'll have to check this one out.

If you get serious about chess, then studying the endgame is critical. I've been told by many masters that they usually beat their well-playing opponents in the endgame rather than the opening or middle game. In fact, they often leave the middle game positionally behind but can quickly recover because most chess players are clueless about playing endgames.


If you're interested in studying the endgame, I can reccomend these books.


1.Just the Facts! by GM Lev Alburt & GM Nikolay Krogius.


This is the perfect "first" endgame book for you. It starts with the most basice endgame, King and pawn vs. King, and builds to more complex multi-piece endgames.


2.Endgame Challenge! by John Hall


This is a book of 451 puzzles. It's a great complement to Alburt's book.


3.Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Shereshevsky


This is a classic. It's much more advanced than Alburt's book and is a must-read for anybody striving to become a master.


4.Capablanca's Best Chess Enings by Irving Chernev


This book contains 60 anotated games by Capablanca. Each game focuses on Capablanca's excellent endgame play.

they ever get reuben fine's book into algebraic notation?


brad

Nope...I still have my old descriptive notation version chock full with all the errors that Larry Evans ever found.


Just read the rules for endgame play on the last page, and you'll know enough to get by.