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Raymond Keene

Autor(a) de The Pocket Book of Chess

140 Works 1,575 Membros 9 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Raymond Keene is the chess correspondent for The Times and The Spectator.
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Obras por Raymond Keene

The Pocket Book of Chess (1988) 111 exemplares
How to Play the Opening in Chess (1974) 50 exemplares
Learn From the Grandmasters (1975) 41 exemplares
1974 World Chess Olympiad Nice, France (1975) — Editor — 41 exemplares
The King's Indian Defence (1973) 36 exemplares
Chess: An Illustrated History (1990) 33 exemplares
Leonid Stein : Master of Attack (1976) 25 exemplares
An Opening Repertoire for White (1984) 24 exemplares
The Modern Defence (1972) 22 exemplares
Chess Olympiad 1972 (1973) 21 exemplares
Battle of the Titans (1991) 21 exemplares
Complete Book of Beginning Chess (2003) 20 exemplares
Moscow Challenge Karpov-Kasparov (1985) 16 exemplares
A Complete Defense For Black (1996) 16 exemplares
Keene On Chess (1999) 14 exemplares
Korchnoi vs Spassky: Chess Crisis (1978) 14 exemplares
Becoming a Grandmaster (1977) 13 exemplares
Brain Games World Chess Champ (2001) 12 exemplares
Caro Kann Defense (1980) 12 exemplares
Dynamic Chess Openings (1982) 6 exemplares
Chess for Absolute Beginners (1993) 6 exemplares
How to Beat Gary Kasparov (1990) 5 exemplares
Cardoza book of chess 5 exemplares
Haifa Chess Olympiad 1976 (1977) 5 exemplares
Winning Moves (1992) 5 exemplares
Winning Moves (1991) 5 exemplares
The Openings (1979) 4 exemplares
Wie spielt man Nimzo-Indisch? (1983) 3 exemplares
Karpov-Kasparov: atto secondo (1985) 3 exemplares
Schack på högsta nivå (1981) 2 exemplares
Siegen Chess Olympiad (1970) 2 exemplares
Karpov - Korchnoi 1981 (2004) 2 exemplares
Contenders for the Crown (1994) 1 exemplar
Karpov - Korchnoi 78 (1979) 1 exemplar
Modern Chess Theory 1979 (2004) 1 exemplar
Book of Chess (1988) 1 exemplar
Beginner's guide to chess (1975) 1 exemplar
Grandmaster Tactics (2008) 1 exemplar

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Assinalado
marshallchesslibrary | Dec 15, 2022 |
I'd just like to bring attention to one problem with this book as a method of rating your strength. It's that it has rather fallen foul to the availlability of chess engines such as Stockfish, and the computational grunt they give the average chess enthusiast vis a vis the evaluation of the author.

My beef is this - the author basically takes you through a series of annotated games, where you are invited to guess the next move, and are awarded points if you get it right. You recieve nothing if you get it wrong (though there is a 100 point discretionary fudge-factor that is allowed on each question - if the move you chose doesn't lead to your mate or a loss of material). Now, maybe back at the time the book was written, amateur chess players would take the written word of a GM as gospel. However, nowadays we have access to engines like Stockfish to help evaluate chess positions. When playing through the first game, I thought that I had found a strong alternative move to the text (and therefore 'correct' answer); a fork c.f. a pin. Firing up stockfish, this move was evaluated by the engine as a whole piece-value better than the text move.

I was robbed!

Having said that, it is an interesting selection of matches and certainly provides insight. Just take it's 'ratings' with a pinch of salt!
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c_j_bolt | Jun 2, 2016 |

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Obras
140
Membros
1,575
Popularidade
#16,392
Avaliação
3.2
Críticas
9
ISBN
215
Línguas
8
Marcado como favorito
1

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