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| v_glorioso12 3/29/2005 10:37:42 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Defence BooksMessage: I'm looking for a good book on defending... Any suggestions? |
| azaris 3/29/2005 13:12:49 [ report this post ] | Attacking and defending Message: Defending is exactly like attacking, only with the sides reversed. If you're good at spotting solid defensive moves when it's you who does the attacking then chances are you'll find (and play) those same moves when you're being attacked. Don't forget that good defense alone has never won a game - you must also know when and how to counterattack. Any book about attacking chess with good annotations and alternative lines (not just fancy moves with lots of exclamation points) would be just fine. |
| v_glorioso12 3/29/2005 13:25:16 [ report this post ] | Message: "Any book about attacking chess with good annotations and alternative lines (not just fancy moves with lots of exclamation points) would be just fine. " Yeah so... what books are like that :-D I'm buying it off the Internet, so I can't really see the inside of the book... |
| marxisgod21 3/29/2005 15:52:14 [ report this post ] | Book Recommendations Message: While certainly defensive and attacking skills go hand-in-hand, I don't know if I would go as far as to say that once you hone your attacking skills then your defending skills will automatically fall into place. Regardless, my favorite book on attacking is by far "The Art of Attack in Chess" by Vladimir Vukovic which, in addition to possibly being the best book on attacking chess ever written, also has a chapter on "Defending the Attacking Against the Castled King". While there is little (if any) material exclusively on defending, many chessplayers rave about the chapter on defending difficult positions from "The Art of the Middle Game" by Keres and Kotov |
| wschmidt 3/29/2005 21:14:04 [ report this post ] | One of the classics.... Message: in this area is by Andy Soltis. It's "The Art of Defense in Chess". Definitely check it out. Shamkovich has a short book called "Saving Lost Positions". It's been on my bookshelf for years, unread, so I can't tell you how good it is. * I recommend that you go to the Chess Cafe Archives and take a look at their book reviews. Scroll through and check out those that look like they cover the area you're interested in. You can also do a Google search - there are several good places on the web for chess book reviews. Another approach is to see what the readers reviews on Amazon.com are like. You have to take some of them with a grain of salt, but I check them often when I'm buying a book on-line. |
| baseline 3/29/2005 22:07:06 [ report this post ] | a good one Message: "The Art of Defence in Chess" by Lyev Polugayevsky & Iakov Damsky Cadogan Chess copyright 1988 ISBN 187441540 was very helpful for me. |
| snakeplissken 3/30/2005 03:34:14 [ report this post ] | Secrets of Chess Defence Message: Mihail Marin Secrets of Chess Defence ISBN: 1-901983-91-9 Content: 004 Symbols 005 Bibliography 006 Foreword 007 1 The Noble Art of Defence 018 2 Economy of Resources in Defence 026 3 How Real is the Threat? 034 4 The King as a Fighting Unit 050 5 Fortresses 062 6 Stalemate 068 7 Perpetual Check 075 8 The Soul of Chess 091 9 Defensive Sacrifices 093 10 Queen Sacrifices 104 11 Exchange Sacrifices 116 12 Minor-Piece Sacrifices 128 13 Two Minor Pieces for a Rook 139 14 Simplification 150 15 Defending Difficult Endings 164 16 Premature Resignation 169 Solutions to the Exercises 175 Index of Players 176 Index of Openings |
| jstack 3/30/2005 04:45:43 [ report this post ] | another good one Message: "How to Defend in Chess" by Colin Couch This is basically a book of annotated games played by world champions in which great defensive maneuvers won the game. |
| nobodyknowmypain 3/30/2005 07:21:32 [ report this post ] | Try this new one. . . Message: There's a new book out written by the now deceased Edgar Mednis, he finished it just before his death. I bought it, but haven't read it yet, but it's definately a unique book about defense. It's called "King Cover", and already it has some good mottos/quotes that can be good for the advanced intermediate player, for example, one golden quote in a review of the book states, "It's amazing, there are maybe thousands of chess books, and all chess players know that your king is the game. Lose the king, you lose the game, win your opponent's king, and you win the game, but not one book explains how best to defend and use this important peice, and this can be frustrating for intermediate players, this book teaches just that." |
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