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BOOK REVIEWS
June 2013
Russian Endgame Manual
An old, still very relevant, classic.
Seirawan’s Inside Chess magazine (1988-2000)
DVD. All issues, over 10,000 pages!
Informant 16
Another outstanding issue.
Zurich 1953
John Watson's Review of Najdorf’s version of this famous event.
Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations, Fourth Edition
3001 combinations!
The Ruy Lopez Revisited
Ivan Sokolov’s superb look at rare Lopez lines.
The Complete c3 Sicilian
Sveshnikov’s opus on this extremely popular system.
May 2013
Alexander Alekhine, My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937
Chess Evolution 3: Mastery
Eminent Victorian Chess Players
Emanuel Lasker: 2nd World Chess Champion
Play The Alekhine
Slay The Spanish
The Cutting Edge: The Open Sicilian 1
Capablanca Move by Move
Kramnik Move by Move
Paul Morphy
How to Beat Your Kids at Chess
April
2013
Albert Beauregard Hodges: The Man Chess Made
Boost Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond The Basics
Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery
Fighting The French: A New Concept
Forcing Chess Moves
Secrets of Pawn Endings
The World Champions I Knew
March 2013
The Absolute Correspondence Championship of the United States Chess Federation, 1976-2010
Dangerous Weapons: The Ruy Lopez
Modern Chess Preparation: Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age
Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving Your Chess
Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 1: How I Beat Fischer’s Record
February 2013
Chess Developments: The Pirc
Kramnik: Move by Move
The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal
Playing 1.d4: The Queen’s Gambit
Playing 1.d4: The Indian Defences
World Champion At the Third Attempt
January 2013
Solving in Style
Endgame Challenge
Beating 1.d4 Sidelines
Encyclopedia of Chess Problems: Themes and Terms
Chess Informant 115
Lessons with a Grandmaster (books
one
and
two
)
Positional Play
Chess Puzzle Book 4: Mastering the Positional Principles
Simple Attacking Plans
December
Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods
The Queen’s Gambit Declined
Smith-Morra Gambit
An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire in 60-minutes
The Russian Endgame Handbook
The Stress of Chess: My Life, Career and 101 Best Games
Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924
(reviewed by McKim)
The Powerful Catalan
A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White: A Complete Plan of Attack With 1.d4 and 2.c4
(reviewed by Silman)
November
Bobby Fischer Comes Home
(reviewed by Donaldson)
Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924
(reviewed by Donaldson)
Mayhem in the Morra!
Modern Defence: Move by Move
The Modern French
English 1.c4 c5 for Black
October
Grandmaster Preparation: Calculation
A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White
(reviewed by Donaldson)
The Sicilian Taimanov, Move by Move
1…d6, Move by Move
Bobby Fischer Comes Home
(reviewed by Silman)
The Slav, Move by Move
September
Chess Developments: The Sicilian Dragon
Chess Highways
The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames
Arthur Kaufmann: A Chess Biography, 1872-1938
Zurich 1953
The Triangle System
Books from Siles Press