The Soviet Chess Primer

Simplemente perfecto, me encantó, y la calidad de las impresiones impecable.

This should be everybody's *second* primer or it's title should be 'The Soviet Chess *Handbook*If you have a national chess federation ELO rating of 1300-1599 I highly recommend this fantastic book.If you are absolutely new to chess or under 1300 rating this may be a little advanced for you in which case I would recommend one of these three classic primers first: Siegbert Tarrasch's 'Game of Chess', Capablanca's 'Chess Fundamentals' or Lasker's 'Manual of Chess'.Lasker wrote the forward to the original Russian edition and the famous coach and author Mark Dvoretsky has written the new one for this English translation, it's his favorite chessbook of all time. Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov (former legendary world champions) have both praised it having learned from it when they were schoolboys.The author presents the material in an engaging and concise manner and includes practical examples after the theory, and exams at the end of each chapter. To get maximum value out of the book I suggest you use a chessboard and take the time necessary to work out the moves and write out your answers as they can get quite tricky and the practice of doing this is similar to over the board play where you must do the same in your mind. I'm currently halfway through the book and plan to run through it again for any chapters that I score less than 80% correctly.Another neat feature is that new concepts are in many cases are introduced and the author then cites the diagram numbers from previous sections to point out that the new concepts exists in *those* positions as well. This is a great instructional technique as the student sees firsthand with positions they've gained familiarity with earlier that any given chess position will have multiple themes in it.5 stars, I have had many chess books but this is one of the few I will never willingly part with!

Achei uma excelente compra para um primeiro livro explicativo de xadrez, tenho quase 2 meses de xadrez, estou lendo o livro de forma devagar mas estou gostando bastante, apesar de não ser capa dura é extremamente bem feito, nenhuma crítica à composição do livro. Se o kasparov elogia o livro, quem sou eu pra não dar 5 estrelas? Ajudaria diversos jogadores brasileiros tê-lo disponível em tradução mas acho uma excelente compra para quem não tem a barreira linguística.Ele não aprofunda em aberturas, meio jogo ou finais mas passa pelos três assuntos. Pelo MI que falou sobre o livro no youtube, a referência era de que o livro era bom para jogadores de 0 a 1800 de rating, fora desse range, é capaz de que seja um livro mt básico.

Klassiker

I wish I got that book years ago (many years ago). The style is typical for old (but good) school of teaching - goes from 0 to 60 quickly (or 0 to 100, if you are using metric system :)). No unnecessary fluf - if something requires deep discussion (pawn endings) it does it in a comprehensive way, but otherwise explains many core concepts quickly, with many examples on why those are important. It should give a very solid foundation on what one should work on.Some people aim books based on their Elo rating. Not certain that's the correct approach but I'd say if one wants to really excell in the beautiful game of chess (and not just win with a few friends) this book shows many areas one should be working on to become a well rounded player. Then you know "why" you need to work on something.I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the paper in the book. It's soft cover but print and paper are superb. I pick up the book with pleasure and think the game of chess receives the treatment it deserves :)I read it every day, just for pleasure. Definitely "a must" on every chess player's list of books to have.