Logical Chess

By Irving Chernev and Irving Chemev

Book Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve.

In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671211358
• ISBN13: 9780671211356
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Learn Chess By Osmosis!

I've been buying and reading chess books for a year now, and I have to say that this is the book I read more than any other and feel I have learned the most from. It's relaxing to sit down with a board, pieces and a book and go through a game played between two great players, with move by move commentary included. You might think you're learning very little, but you'll be amazed at what sticks with you, and how you will...

Awesome book

This book is great. It's the best chess book that I've read so far. There is some repetition of basic precepts, but it's necessary for them to sink in. There are a lot of different games. Chernev is a great annotator and frequently quotes the great early players. Openings, endgames, tactics, etc. are covered in a gradual and intuitive way. The openings that are covered are the most popular and are what intermediate players...

a classic! Tought me a great deal! Still teaching me!

I don't own many chess-books. But I'm picking up a couple of Chernev's other books simply because this one was cheap and great- two things that warm my cockles! As an improving mid-level player, this book helped me a great deal. More than the books I bought on "So-and-so's most immortalist, bestest, burnin-brightest games of eternity..." maybe I'm not there yet. This book seems a great bridge to help one get from novice to...

changed the way I see the game

I am currently on game 30 out of 33 in this book, and am rated around 1300 USCF. This is the now my favorite chess book of all time. The book has really taught me that every move in a game is important. Now when I make a move I am thinking to myself "what is the purpose of this move" and asking what my opponents moves accomplish.Previously I was not a big fan of chess books, and preferred using software or videos. But...

Find this book and buy it!

In preparation for an article I was writing, I recently asked a group of strong players (2200 and up) what book helped them "turn the corner" in chess when they were beginners. A Senior Master told me that as a freshman in High School he had been stuck at 1200 for some time and was making little progress despite reading books like Nimzovich's My System. A friend lent him Chernev's Logical Chess Move By Move and he said a light...