After you've finished Card-Play Technique, this comes next. I have a huge collection of bridge books, but hardly any past about 1970. For some reason nobody has been able to write books of the standard of those early English writers: Mollo, Simon, Reese etc. Their insights are never going to lose th...
This book probably deserves more stars. But for me it was a traumatic experience. It was 1978, I was playing in a chess olympiad, so I don't know, probably not completely dumb and yet...there I was stuck on about p. 3 of this thing. If it had a different title, I'm sure I wouldn't have burst into te...
So here's the gist of a conversation I had the other day with notgettingenough. I had been musing over what the best strategy might be for playing out dead endings like King + Rook versus King + Rook in internet speed chess games. Needless to say, in serious (long time-limit) chess, people would imm...