Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time
by:
John Nunn (author)
John Emms (author)
Graham Burgess (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786714117 (0786714115)
ASIN: 786714115
Publish date: August 31st 2004
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
I picked this up after reading Manny's review. It's a very cool book.What I like about it so far is that it presents the games, along with variations, but it also gives biographical information about the players, as well as focusing the reader's attention on the key themes of the game before hand, ...
This is a very good anthology of the greatest chess games of all time, but it does raise the question of what selection criteria to use. After a while, you realize that chess games are just another form of literature, and the criteria are in many ways similar to the ones you would, for example, use ...
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