- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Bell; First English Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. edition (1959)
- ASIN: B0000CKA3K
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,025,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Collection of Studies
9 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback
"Modern End-game studies for the Chess-player" is a 125-page collection of 101 studies from 1900-1950. This book, written by Hans Bouwmeester and translated/edited by Harry Golombek, cannot pretend to be a truly great work of chess literature. Rather it is a collection of beautiful and instructive studies with Bouwmeester's good but relatively sparse commentary. There is nothing too special about this book, but I believe every chess player in the world would benefit from reading it and playing out its studies on the board.
Pros:
-All studies are both beautiful and useful, that is, no fantastic positions with 7 knights but nonetheless wonderful ideas
-The book is bound well on good paper and is not hard to read in any way
-It is relatively obscure (I think I have seen only about 4 of these studies before in other books).
-The cover is not embarrassing (Gambit?).
Cons:
-It is fairly thin
-It is in Descriptive Notation
Despite its small flaws, this is a good solid book.
Pros:
-All studies are both beautiful and useful, that is, no fantastic positions with 7 knights but nonetheless wonderful ideas
-The book is bound well on good paper and is not hard to read in any way
-It is relatively obscure (I think I have seen only about 4 of these studies before in other books).
-The cover is not embarrassing (Gambit?).
Cons:
-It is fairly thin
-It is in Descriptive Notation
Despite its small flaws, this is a good solid book.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Synopsis
9 July 2007
Format:Paperback
n selecting the 101 studies in the collection the aim has been two-fold. First, to present to the chess public the quintessence of the most brilliant and artistic studies of the first half of the Twentieth Century; and, secondly, to demonstrate to the chess-player how useful many of the ideas contained in thse studies can be in over-the-board play. All these studies are miniatures - none contains more than ten pieces - to show the end-game ideas in their clearest and most brilliant form. Harry Golombek, the translator, has enlarged the original collection to include the best examples of all the various present-day schools of end-game composition. Hans Bouwmeester is a veteran Dutch International Master. He won some important first prizes in the 1950's and represented his country 7 times in the Chess Olympiads. in 1972 he became captain of the Dutch team. Bouwmeester, however, is primarily noted for his literary contribution to chess. An ardent student of the Dutch world champion Dr Max Euwe, Bouwmeester was editor of the celebrated Chess Archives and authored a number of important books on the End-game, of which this is perhaps his most notable. Harry Golombek was the king of chess writers. Chess correspondent for The London Times and The Observer, he possessed an unrivalled gift for transforming a chess game into an heroic saga with himself as the bard, singing the exploits of his chosen heroes of the mind. Several times British Champion, Golombek also played top board for England in the Olympiad and represented the British Chess Federation in the FIDE World Championship cycle. He was fluent in Russian and personally attended the World Chess Championships of 1954, 1957 and 1958 as a judge.
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