Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193449 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Brilliant commentary on brilliant games.
I have not had the fortune of reading the other four books in Seirawan's series, but this book makes me want to try and get a hold of them.

Seirawan covers twelve modern grandmaster games in move by move explanations. There are not enough chess books on the market that do this, I feel that this sort of book acts like a bridge for the intermediate player to walk over into the advanced realm. Even beginners (with a basic positional and tactical understanding) will learn and enjoy the games that Seirawan has annotated.

Seirawan writes with originality, and provokes the reader to think for himself as he reproduces annotations by other world class grandmasters and then argues with them. This is something not seen in enough books of chess.

I am not giving this book five stars for one reason. Microsoft Press decided that they would publish this book as an incomplete version, they left out six games (the original would have eighteen, the one published only has twelve).

For players who want similar move-by-move accounts of chess games, take a look at 'Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The historic match between man and maching' by Bruce Pandolfini, and 'Logical Chess: Move by Move' by Irving Chernev.

Good supplement for the Series
All 5 books in the series are extremely good. This book is more of learning from recorded games rather than a strict tutorial, but a great 5th book follow up. Every beginning chess player should read these book before all others: Playing Winning Chess, Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Tactics, and Winning Chess Strategies.

winning chess series
this is the last book from the winning chess series and it is very good yesser seirawan makes the book very entertaining he tells you about the players the chess world and every move in great detail this is a great book for chess lovers the only thing theres only twelve games and the book ends. but its a book that can be read many times