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| calmrolfe 1/22/2004 04:21:37 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: CHESS, as a cause of stress and strife !!Message: The noble game of Chess is oft the cause of domestic strife. My wife is forever going on about all my Chess books lying all over the house. I, of course, deny and dispute this rigorously and to prove her wrong I decided to make a short list of my offending Chess books. TOURNAMENTS London Int Chess Congress 1922 G Maroczy Hastings 1922 A Alekhine Niksic 1978 Shaun Talbot Lone Pine 1979 Murray Chandler 47th USSR Championship 1979 Tony Miles Wijk aan Zee R G Wade Wijk aan Zee 1983 R G Wade Moscow 1983 R G Wade Candidates Montpelier 1985 A Alekhine - E D Boguljubow Fred Reindeld Spasskij-Fischer V Hort Fischer - Spassky Sam Reshevsky Korchnoi - Spassky Raymond Keene Karpov - Korchnoi Bill Hartston Karpov - Kasparov 2 Raymond Keene Karpov - Kasparov 3 Raymond Keene Battle of the Titans, Kasp v Karp Raymond Keene 500 Master Games S Tartakower Second Piatgorsky Cup Isaac Kashdan The Master Game 2 Bill Hartston Skopje Chess Olympiad 1972 Haifa Chess Olympiad 1976 Raymond Keene Siegen Chess Olympiad Raymond Keene Chess Olympiads 1927-1968 A Foldeak Best Games of Chess 1970-1980 J Speelman CHESS BIOGRAPHIES Pillsbury’s Chess Career Philip Sergeant Pillsbury The Extraordinary Andrew Soltis My Best Games of Chess A Alekhine The best of Karpov P R Markland Morphy Gleanings Philip Sergeant The Exploits of Paul Morphy F Milne-Edge Masters of The Chess Board Richard Reti Blackburnes Chess games J H Blackburne My Best Games Ludek Pachman My 60 Memorable Games Bobby Fischer Grandmasters of Chess H C Schonberg CHESS GENERAL Chess Volume 39 W Winter Chess Volume 40 W Winter Chess Volume 41 W Winter Chess Volume 42 W Winter Chess Volume 43 W Winter Chess Volume 44 W Winter Chess Volume 54 W Winter The Complete Chess Addict M Fox The Chess Companion Irving Chernev Principles of Chess James Mason Chessboard Delights Comins Mansfield British Correspondence Chess D Rogers The Complete Chess Player Fred Reinfeld All About Chess I A Horowitz The Complete Chess Guide The Game of Chess H Golombek Chess G Abrahams FIDE Chess Yearbook 1976/7 K O’Connell Encyclopaedia of Chess H Golombek Pan Book of Chess G Abrahams Chess Strategy Ed Lasker The Best of Chess Life B Pandolfin The Chess Players Handbook Howard Staunton Simple Chess Michael Stean The Chess Players Text Book Howard Staunton Kasparov Teaches Chess Gary Kasparov Chess Fundamentals J R Capablanca Chess Praxis A Nimzovitch The Chess Mind G Abrahams Common Sense in Chess Emanuel Lasker An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess Edward R Brace Thinkers Chess S. Gerzadowicz Fighting Chess Gary Kasparov My System A Nimzovitch Gems of The Chess Board P Wenman Chess Questions Answered Larry Evans Internat. Championship Chess Kazic Training for the Tourn. Player Mark Dvoretsky Grandmasters of Chess Harold Schonberg Chess By Yourself Fred Reinfeld Test Your Chess Gerald Abrahams Learn From The Grandmasters PROBLEMS The Modern Chess Problems P Williams Pick of the Best Chess Problems B Barnes Test Your Chess G Abrahams OPENINGS - GENERAL Understand The Chess Openings Reuben Fine How to Play The Chess Openings Znosko-Borovsky Chess Openings Mike Basman Modern Chess Openings Griffiths & Sergt BCO OPENINGS - SPECIFIC Indian Defences Ludek Pachman Modern Benoni David Norwood Averbakh System M Thomas Developments in the Pirc Nigel Davies The Benoni Bill Hartston Modern Defence Vlastimil Hort Understanding The Spanish Shaun Taulbut Ruy Lopez for Tournament Play Gary Lane Open Spanish The Complete King’s Indian Raymond Keene MIDDLE GAME How to play the Middle Game John Littlewood Combinations in Middle Game I Bondarevsky The Art of the Middle game Paul Keres The Art of Attack in Chess V Vukovic Winning Chess Combinations Hans Bolmeester Winning Chess I Chernev ENDGAME End Games in Chess Theo Schuster How to win in the Chess Endings I A Horowitz Minor piece Endgames I Y Averbakh Minor Piece Endgames II Y Averbakh Endgames in Chess Fred Reinfeld The Final Countdown Willem Hajenius Winning Endgame technique A Beliavsky FOREIGN LANGUAGE Centrale Pozice e5 Z Zavodny Damsky Gambit Ludek Pachman Sachonva Citanka Lehrbuch der Schachtheorie A Suetin Rozhodujici Partie Ludek Pachman Zapasy Mistrovstvi 1988-1990` Sachy I Sachy II Well !! that’s one argument I have clearly won !! …..err……on second thoughts maybe she has got a point after all……. Kind regards, Cal |
| daveamour 1/22/2004 05:41:05 [ report this post ] | Comment Message: Thats a great collection, when are you going to start reading them? |
| calmrolfe 1/22/2004 15:36:04 [ report this post ] | :) Message: I have read the majority of them, but there are one or two that are awaiting study the next time I am snowed in !! The foreign language ones are hard going though...... My chess collection is growing all the time, I can now add to the list Think Like a Grandmaster Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol's I & II New In Chess Improve Your Chess Results Chess Volume 51 Chess Explorations Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy World Cup Chess Jeez !! Everywhere I look around the house I keep finding more chess books !!! To make matters worse, I was a Head Coach for an American Football team and I have a load of coaching books piled up too !! Strangely, the game of chess has much in common with coaching American Football, the mind set for both sports is quite similar. Kind regards, Cal (from me shed.....she won't let me back in till I sort out me chess books !!) :0) |
| greenwave68 1/22/2004 17:38:28 [ report this post ] | Football and chess Message: I agree, as a Football coach of a local High schoo chess and Football have a great deal in common. My wife still tells me that I "very wierd" for playing chess online. I tell her that it keeps my mind sharp for the next season. She says "that's what I'm for." :) |
| buddie 1/23/2004 16:03:12 [ report this post ] | Football and chess ? Message: Football and chess have a lot in common ? Football (American) and Football (Soccer) don't even have much in common :-) |
| omus 1/24/2004 04:04:53 [ report this post ] | Cal, American Football ? Message: What team was it? In Europe or USA ? Chess is a great way of wiling away the time while travelling as a sportsperson to a venue.....also keeps the mind off what awaits you in the arena!!! |
| ccmcacollister 1/24/2004 08:08:25 [ report this post ] | CAL... Message: The proper Chess term for such occurances is known as being "zwifenzugged".... which also includes being asked (a.k.a. "TOLD") to go shopping or mow-the-grass, on tournament day. As I'm sure you know, Resignation almost certainly follows! {&) |
| calmrolfe 1/24/2004 13:11:33 [ report this post ] | omus Message: Therein lies a story. After I passed my coaching qualifications I was asked to become Head Coach of a rookie team in Europe. They were complete novices but we trained hard and were competitive from day one of the League season. The European teams, like the US teams, have fearsome nicknames, Rhino's, Ridgebacks, Bears, Nighthawks, Wolverines etc. Some bright spark at our club decided that a pack of wild dogs would be a suitable nickname for our club and the name would surely terrorize our opponents into meek surrender, hence we were called Burnley Prairie Dogs. Imagine my horror when one night I eagerly settled down one night to watch a nature program about Prairie Dogs and up popped some adorable little furry creature which looked about as aggressive as an Ice Cream !!! As a coach, trying to outsmart the opponent's team and co-ordinate your forces with strategic plans and tactical plays was very much like playing chess, except we used people and not pawns to make the plays !!! |
| ketchuplover 1/24/2004 16:57:06 [ report this post ] | Message: Awesome collection sir :) |
| greenwave68 1/24/2004 17:00:17 [ report this post ] | Message: No, my wife would never ask or tell me to resign from playing chess. She knows I need some sort of stimuli to keep me busy while I take a hiatus from my coaching career. Besides, it keep's the animal in me alive. :> |
| buddy2 1/24/2004 18:37:32 [ report this post ] | I thought Message: I thought I had a large collection. Yours puts me to shame. I feel like breaking into your house and grabbing an armful. Unfortunately, I'm thousands of miles away in a distant American galaxy. Keep up the good work! |
| thugette_babe 1/31/2004 21:56:33 [ report this post ] | OH MI GOD! Message: you have ALL those books?! how long did it take you to make this post calmrolfe? lol like whoa... it would take me like 7 hours to type up all those titles.. how did u remember them all?! lol wooooow I would've past out from readin all those books =\ |
| calmrolfe 2/01/2004 13:06:13 [ report this post ] | Not so difficult Message: To keep track of which books I have, I have the full list kept on my computer and on a print off I carry with me to second hand bookshops (to prevent my buying the same book twice !!). I tend to dip in and out of the books as needed, the books I am concentrating on at present are My System and it's "sequel" Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy, which you could say is a modernised version of My System. I have been asked to coach a young chess prodigy, so no doubt a few of these books will go out on long term loan together with a good chess program to help him analyse his games. So...even less time for me to read my chess books !! Kind regards, Cal |
| commodore 2/01/2004 14:55:18 [ report this post ] | Cal, the gig is up.. Message: and everyone knows you are teaching me now, okay I need to up my game and my book count, though I think I out weigh you in that department at 11 stone? |
| calmrolfe 2/02/2004 01:56:38 [ report this post ] | Quality Message: Quality of reading material cannot be weighed, rather it should be judged by the size of the book....the bigger the better...obviously ! Also, careful consideration should be given to the name of the author, the longer the name the more authoritative the works, hence Dvoretsky will always be preferred to Short and any works by Znosko-Borovsky should be highly prized. As for coaching you... sir, you flatter me, all I did was remind you that pawns cannot go backwards....... :0) Kind regards, Cal |
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