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Book Review: Botvinnik: Move by Move, by Cyrus Lakdawala
A Move by Move book that shows its age more than others (but it's still good)
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Book Review: Chess Tactics from Scratch by Martin Weteschnik
A modern classic, and a shoo-in for intermediate-strength players.
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Book Review: Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-45 by Taylor Kingston
A fascinating historical deep dive into the darkest period of German Chess. What can we learn? And how could it apply today?
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Book Review: A Century of Chess Book I: 1900-1909
A decade's best chess hits
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Book Review: The Real Paul Morphy, by Charles Hertan
Part Game Collection, Part Biography. A look at the whole of the American giant.
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Book Review: Max Euwe's Best Games: The Fifth World Chess Champion, by GM Jan Timman
If you're looking for a collection of Euwe games, this book greatly simplifies that choice. And if you're not looking for one, what's wrong with you?
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Chessable Course Review: Identifying Critical Moments in Chess by NM Ben Johnson
An excellent offering for club players from Chessable
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Book Review: Alexander Alekhine Complete Games Collection Volume 2: 1921-1925
Alekhine's play levels up, but the translation is a slight downgrade.
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Book Review: Nimzovich's My System FastTrack Edition, Edited by Alex Fishbein
Fishbein trims the fat on a century-old classic and retranslates it for the modern world
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Chessable Course Review: The Checkmate Patterns Manual
About as "modern classic" a Chessable course can get
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Book Review: Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan
Taking lessons from Yaz and the classics, even though the book is starting to show its age.
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Blitz Book Review: 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
One of many good basic chess tactics books, but a cut above due to sheer volume of puzzles.
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