Logical Chess, Move by Move [Paperback]

Irving Chernev (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1957

Having learnt the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; New edition edition (January 1, 1957)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671211358
• ISBN-13: 978-0671211356
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,352,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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258 of 267 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars EVERY MOVE ANALYZED ===== Complete Games Made into chess lessons for the advanced Novice, September 30, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)

"LOGICAL CHESS, MOVE BY MOVE" by Erving Chernev is was the first book (to my knowledge) that uses complete games with every move analyzed. It has remained a well read and one of the top selling chess books for good reasons:

#1. The explainations are undersandable for the advanced novice.
#2. This way of teaching covers all important parts of the game, with the opening always being covered (of coarse!), almost always the middlegame and on occassion an endgame.

Other than the openings needing of updating, perhaps some more modern games being included and the book can get tedious when repeating itself to excess, these minor complaints are not too significant. In most cases the advanced novice is not going to be overly concerned about the openings being out of date, though a little more coverage and updating would improve the book a little. [...]

206 of 213 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Classic Comment on Every Move that started it all, May 16, 2005

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Sara Singer (Phoenix, Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)

What a wonderful concept! Every move is commented on. And, Chernev started it all with Dr. Nunn writing, "Understanding Chess" for the advance player and the Chess for Jrs. Series writing "Unbeatable and More Unbeatable Chess For Jrs." for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player.
My only two complaints are that this book is outdated and it gets rather boring when in each game there must be a comment for the same previously played opening move - both which the other books have taken care of.
Over all a very good book with a couple small flaws.

216 of 225 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Move by Move Analysis - Great way to learn chess!!, September 11, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)

"Logical Chess" is a logical way to teach chess. Games taken from play by strong players are used to provide neat lessons. To make sure everything that is important is covered one or more comments (and sometimes other move suggestions and comments) is made on all of the moves. [...] But that doesn't change the fact that "Logical Chess" is a classic and very good book to consider once beyond the beginner stage.