White to Play and Win [Paperback]

Weaver W. Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 3, 2007

Chess Openings showing how White can win against any defense.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Ishi Press (July 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0923891838
• ISBN-13: 978-0923891831
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A one for history buffs, January 18, 2008

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Mr. C. L. Waters (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White to Play and Win (Paperback)

The reason I got this book is because I like the history which surrounds it. That is why it gets three stars.
This is two books in one, as 'Simple Chess', is also included. This book also has plenty of photographs. If you are the kind of person who would also like to thumb through Stauntons Handbook, then you may well want this book. If you want to get better at chess, sorry, look else where. This book could even make you play worse! Sam Sloan and Dr.Leroy have put very little effort into putting this book together. It looks like old book-scan-new book, so you get 1.P-K4 and not 1.e4 Add some dedications and some more games, and presto! I actually like the old feel, but most people I assume will not be impressed. You get about 180 pages ( some blank ) but really the whole thing could have been done in about 60 pages, and may even have looked better. There is very little text by Weaver Adams, just a few pages. Simple Chess basically just repeats the same text. Almost all the pages are just analysis, with no words. The Analysis is also repeated, a bit like Schiller likes to fill pages by puffing them up in his books. Do not buy this book for winning variations for white, in fact half of them probibly lose by force! The other half you will just leave white worse.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Before the Silicon beasts became our masters..., December 7, 2007

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"Franky" "chess nut" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White to Play and Win (Paperback)

Weaver Adams was a highly creative and highly tactical chess master who had his hey dey well over 50 years ago. He loved the King's Gambit and especially focused his attention on the Vienna Game/Gambit. He found lines and traps that made him appear unbeatable if anyone was foolish enough to answer his 1.e4 with 1...e5. The late, lamented Ken Smith, formerly of the Chess Digest Empire would gladly tell any who would listen that he used Weaver's discoveries at every opportunity and would rake in the points, almost like a sleep walker. Sadly, modern analysis (mainly with the use of computers) has shown many of his lines to be simply unsound. The good news: unless your opponent has access to a computer, i.e. you are playing him or her face to face, they will be just as hapless against Weaver's pet lines as his master level opponents were back in his day! If you seriously study these lines you are going to score points with ridiculous ease. Let your poor victims run home and put the game on their little Fritz or Shredder or Rybka engines. They can then seek you out and cry on your shoulder about how THE COMPUTER had you busted. You, however, will have the considerable consolation of having beaten them in the ACTUAL GAME! This book appears to be a reprint of collected Weaver Adams analysis he originally published in American Chess magazines and his own self-published pamphlet of the same title. Highly recommended for tournament players!