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Winning Chess Openings
Reviewed by Dave Zaklan
Cardoza Publishing
(Simon & Schuster) Softcover, 144 pages
ISBN: 1580420516 Perhaps as difficult as the game of chess can be to the tyro, picking the best chess books has an equal level of difficulty. To the good fortune of any beginning player Bill Robertie, a world class chess master and backgammon champion (Robertie is also a former winner of the U.S. Speed Chess Championships) has compiled an excellent book in conjunction with Cordoza Publishing. Winning Chess Openings is among the finest chess books created in all of history.
By definition an expert cannot easily define intermediate steps in a process, yet Bill manages this task with a proficiency that will benefit anyone reading his books. He is apparently mindful that one does not build a house of knowledge by starting on the roof, and carefully lays the foundation and support structure squarely in a manor that defies the nebulous ramblings of other greats in the field. Winning Chess Openings offers a highly readable format with a well indexed and planned presentation, aimed at the beginning chessplayer. The strength of this text is the annotations and multiple examples of a particular opening. For Alekhine’s Defense, it’s noted that it came from a world champion of the years 1927 to 1946, a mere twenty years. The brief historical interjection is likely to point to the tremendous value of this opening and the foundations thereof. The coverage of each opening varies. Chapter 7, The Queen's Gambit, is brief with a scant description of the opening and the distinction between accepted and declined, yet Chapter 6 Black "half-open" Defenses, covers the Sicillian Defense in detail with an annotated game of the author's. The back jacket of the book makes the claim, “READABLE BOOKS FOR CHESS PLAYERS!” Should that have been predicated with “EXCELLENT”, it would be even more accurate.
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