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on your desert island you have a chess set and five books.
but which five. mine are
logical chess move by move. chernev
chess 5334 problems. polgar
winning chess strategies. seirawan
the improving chess thinker. heisman
the amateurs mind.silman
what would yours be

My Great Predecessors Vol.1-5 Garry Kasparov

ones i,ll have to look out for

Five copies of Polgar's 5334 Chess Problems, Combinations, and Games.

I figure it has the most paper of any book and could be used to start a signal fire to get rescued.

burn two build a shelter with three

The Polgar book for sure, for all those problems!

OR a Tandy 1650 RRP chess computer {because I can beat it...usually, and it is very easy to use} and a solar battery charger.

dsteel wrote:ones i,ll have to look out for

I haven't read them.

Nice qurstion, and my answer:

#1: David Bronstein's Zurich 1953 Zurich Candidate's Tournament, a real classic and just a damn fine book!

#2: The Life and Games of Mikail Tahl, lots of it written and annotated by Tahl himself..a real winner!

#3: Botvinnik-Tahl, Match for the world Championship, 1960...written by Tahl and has of the most insightful annotations of any book I have read!

#4: Robert Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games, also done by Fischer himself and very insightful and deep annotations!

#5: Garry Kasparov's My Great Predecessors Volume ONE.. interesting to see Garry's thoughts and annotations on these great GM's of the past!


Honorable Mention (in no particular order):

Botvinnik's 101 best games.
Svetosar Gligoric, I play against pieces,
Euwe: Chess Amatuer vs Chess professional
Alekine's best game collections volume 1 and 2
Alekhine New York 1927 Chess Tournament (despite Alekhine's terrible prejudice of Capablanca's play)

please provide examples of this terrible prejudice. tyia

just been given study chess with tal. Looks like i,ll have to expand the list

Of course I will red ketchup

I will first quote off the back page of the book "New York 1927" by Alexander Alekhine":


" This is unlike any tournament book ever written. Not only do you have one of the greatest annotators of all time rendering some brilliant analysis, but he melds it with an exceptional agenda, an antr-Capablanca agenda. And since he wrote it after defeating Capablanca in their marathon match, he sounds like a sore loser who became a sore winner".

From the forward of the same book, by Andy Soltis, page 7, "Alekhine's theme is evident in the introduction where he derides Capablanca's third place at Moscow ("the biggest disappointment he had experienced up until then in his international career" Moscow helped reveal the truth about "the half-mythic CapablancaUberspieler." New York revealed more of Capabaanca's weaknesses, Alekhine adds, and that showed him how to beat the world Champion in the match in Buenos Aires six months later.

From the same page and forward. Alekhine's hostility ois still raging near the very end of the book when this possibility arises: (The position is from the game Capablanca-Nimzovich, round 15 White played his 21st move...Kf2? which Alekhine criticizes "instead of the obvious 21. Rd6!" Alekhine didn't think much of what was considered Capablanca's strong suit, "In the endgame,"he sniffs,"he is not to be feared by a first-class master."


There you are

those that I have to look out for