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| | Page: [Previous] [Next] 1 2 | | (21) Posted by seetharaman kalyan [Friday, Jan 17, 2014 13:56]; edited by seetharaman kalyan [14-01-17] |
On composing, the Mansfield book is about composing directmate twomovers (his speciality). The more recent book by Petkov "The art of composing selfmates" is a classic. This is aimed at more experienced composers (like you). While the book is about selfmates, his expert ideas on formulating schemes, analysing its possibilities and looking systematically for unexplored areas etc... are applicable for other genres. Highly recommended.
| | | (22) Posted by Andrew Buchanan [Friday, Jan 17, 2014 18:18]; edited by Andrew Buchanan [14-01-17] |
A great book I enjoyed many years ago, which I bet that most people won't have heard of, is "Chess Treasury of the Air", edited by Terence Tiller. Before television took a hold, BBC Radio produced a superb series of programmes on chess. The experts enlisted for this venture constituted a veritable Who's Who of British and World chess of the time: Abrahams, Alexander, Barden, Broadbent, Bruce, Clarke, Euwe, Fraenkel, Golombek, Haygarth, Kottnauer, Pritchard, Rhoden, Sunnucks, Wade. It covered everything to do with chess, including therefore problems and studies. Alas there was no retro-analysis, but I think anyone in this forum would find much to enjoy.
| | | (23) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Saturday, Jan 18, 2014 16:17] |
Off-topic rant, green with envy, @Andrew:
The Sparks once titled
"Now that I own the BBC, what am I supposed to do with this thing".
Well, being a German and having the choice between juwels of TV like
Pro7, RTL and SAT1 I wouldn't be out of ideas...
Hauke
| | | (24) Posted by [Sunday, Jan 19, 2014 14:19] |
White's Loyd book certainly gets my vote, too. And in general,
quite a lot of what White published in his Christmas series, and
also Weenink's The Chess Problem (which also belongs to that series).
(Weenink's characterization of Klett is very quotable: "[Klett's]
ideals are: difficulty, finesse, difficulty, economy, difficulty,
purity of mate in the mainplays, and again difficulty!")
Add to that some of the Overbrook Press books, especially
Mansfield's Adventures in Composition. Not the least, these
are some of the most beautifully printed problem books I know.
While it isn't a book (Ken Whyld published it as a small
pamphlet later), Dawson's articles on problem themes and
classification from BCM (around 1948) deserves a very Special
Mention. But I suspect it may an acquired taste.
| | | (25) Posted by Sven Hendrik Lossin [Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014 20:36] |
Just one is missing "120 PS" by Peter Sickinger.
| | | (26) Posted by Steven Dowd [Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:31] |
I spend about half an hour each week going over some small portion of Petkov's book. It's been very helpful to me in understanding what he considers proper aesthetics of a selfmate. Now duplicating or improving upon his mechanics/construction, that is another matter entirely.
The 120 PS is another good selfmate book; I can look at a problem, and understand his intent, but making problems like him is also another matter.
We really need more books like Siegfried's; and in this day and age I am surprised that we don't have more.
Has anyone else bought the Ehn and Kastner book "Schachkompositionen"? There are some problems in the book, but I thought they did a good job for non-specialists. Binnewirtz's recent book on Ado Kramer is very valuable, and Brian Gosling's book on John Brown was also entertaining. I'd like to see more books like that one.
| | | (27) Posted by Darko Šaljić [Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:24] |
I read a long time ago a wonderful book about Norman Mecloud by John Rice.
I don't remember title... It is still one of my favorite.
Norman was a brilliant composer and most interesting man, and Rice showed it in master way.
| | | (28) Posted by Per Olin [Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 10:59] |
Now when Ehn and Kastner are mentioned, they have also a book with the title Alles über Schach. This book got in Die Schwalbe good references, which it really deserves. The chapter Problem & Studie covers over 1/5 of the 464 page book.
For friends of proof games is recommended Shortest Proof Games The Rubik's Cube of a Chess Player by Gerd Wilts and Andrey Frolkin. The book covers everything up to its publication in 1991 (no book can cover what has taken place in proof games after that). Also recommended is 64 Proof Games by Satoshi Hashimoto, which is very instructive concerning techniques and considerations while composing proof games.
Last but not least, a book that has not yet appeared, but which I have understood is in preparation: The anthology of problems composed by Bo Lindgren.
| | | (29) Posted by Steven Dowd [Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 16:50] |
Thanks for the tip on the other Ehn/Kastner book, Per. I missed that review. I may get it as I am constantly pruning my chess library in favor of problem books and more general sources. I donated 400 books to charity last year, and will probably do the same this year.
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