Best Move

by Vlastimil Hort and Vlastimil Jansa

The Best Move is a collection of very hard chess problems based on actual grandmaster games. The reader is asked who has the advantage and why. Points are awarded not only for getting the answer right... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890580413
• ISBN13: 9780890580417
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: R. H. M. Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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I have read at least 2,000 chess books over the last twenty years, and I say without hyperbole that this advanced manual is the single best chess text of its sort ever written! It is out of print, to my understanding, not because there isn't a heavy desire for copies, but because its original publisher went out of business.This is not one of those manuals that promises chess tyros a brilliant future with the game if they will only learn ten magical maxims. Instead, the book consists of several hundred positions, mostly (if I recall correctly) from the games of Vlastimil Hort and co-author Vlastimil Jansa. The problems range in difficulty from moderately-difficult to virtually unsolvable under over-the-board conditions, but the amount of chess understanding that a player will gain from working through this book is extraordinary, though extraordinary dedication is necessary to analyze these positions. Readers are graded numerically based on their answers to the problems, with occasional bonus points for great perception and penalties for patzer play.I wish to God I still owned my original copy of this book, with my hand-written notes of analysis written in every spare bit of blank page! Unfortunately, that copy, held together by two large rubber bands because of the cheapness of the original book's binding, was last made use of by a rat while the book was in storage. Somewhere there is a rat capable now of playing 2700 ELO-rated chess, based on the thoroughness with which he digested that copy! So, if you see this book, buy it! If you are like me, you may discover that it is the only copy of it you will see in twenty years.