Nice breakdown. Really enjoy forward chess platform. Nice alternative for a book on kindle, using an iPad can pull up the book with the kindle app and set up Split View with a board pulled up from any platform to make the moves on the board along with the book reading.
Just wanted to say I appreciate your videos which appear well researched and presented. As someone coming back into chess in my 50s after a long hiatus since the very early 2000s so much has changed due to technology. Hoping I can get back to 2100+ and your videos are helping :)
Great video - enjoyable and very informative. Thank you for sharing this. I am a big fan of forwardchess (the prices generally are extremely competitive). In the intrests of fairness it is probably worth pointing out two additional features that go with many chessable versions. Firstly, most courses have free video content. I can't afford to buy the versions with full video, but on some of the courses (Hellsten, for example) you do get and hour or two of free video. I am not sure just how valuable this is. It certainly doesn't make up for the increased cost as compared to ForwardChess. However, the second feature - again with the Hellsten couses in mind - make them a no-brainer. You can post questions and Hellsten himself answers, usually within less than 24 hours. I found these unbelievably helpful. His generosity with his valuable time is astonishing. I probably spent a year working through his Endgame strategy book, and the dozens of responses really helped clarify my doubts. This is especially true when engine evaluations seemd to contradict his move. The man is a legend!
Muy util la informacion. Es impagable saber como se verá el libro que quieres comprar y no arrepentirse después....gracias por compartir esa experiencia.
I have more than 1,000 chess books, among them the Alekhine one. In the last few years, I have been buying e-books (Kindle), but the experience is not the same. Some of the digital books I bought again on paper. Regarding opening books, physical books are better because one can browse the index quickly to look for variants or specific games. Studying chess on a cellphone comes with the problem of the board size and may be harmless to the eyes...There is another issue: New in Chess does not sell books to the country I live, Brazil, anymore, because of some problems with the postal service. The price and the cost in U$ or Euro is another factor that took me to the ebooks.
All of the ebook sellers I mention: Chessable, Forwardchess, and New In Chess, allow you to use their books in your desktop too, through the browser. That is actually how I study them. An alternate option, but one that I have not tested yet, is to buy an e-ink tablet like the Onyx Boox Go 7, which can access and install Google Play apps.
Interactive material is all I've purchased for years, because it's so efficient. However, I want to reboot my chess and among other things include a book of Alekhine's games to study with a real set. I don't know which to choose. Can you recommend one for it's instructional value? I'd prefer minimal variations and ample prose.
I don't think you can choose and pick the annotation style of Alekhine, but in terms of recommendations it is easy: My Best Games of Chess. Get the 21st century edition (not the Dover edition) as it is in algebraic notation, among other things. www.amazon.com/Best-Games-Chess-1908-1937-Century/dp/193649065X/
You are referring to the "red books" such as the one Fischer used to prepare for his Spassky match, as seen in his 60 Minutes interview before the 1972 match.
@@ilanpi My goodness, a fellow fanatic! I love it. Believe it or not, I actually had that comment in the video footage but edited it out because I felt it would be too many trivia points and detract from the focus of this video. But I am including it in the Chessbase article that I am writing up.
@@chess_and_tech Hello! I got the Petrosian one and it helped me reach the next level. I liked those books because I don't really appreciate commentary and analysis. The book allowed me to recognise candidate moves in closed positions, which had been a big issue for me.
Nice breakdown. Really enjoy forward chess platform. Nice alternative for a book on kindle, using an iPad can pull up the book with the kindle app and set up Split View with a board pulled up from any platform to make the moves on the board along with the book reading.
Just wanted to say I appreciate your videos which appear well researched and presented. As someone coming back into chess in my 50s after a long hiatus since the very early 2000s so much has changed due to technology. Hoping I can get back to 2100+ and your videos are helping :)
@@Ireniicus Thanks! :-)
This opened my eyes to a different and much improved ways of learning from books … at a reasonable cost. Thank you so very very much!
Great video - enjoyable and very informative. Thank you for sharing this.
I am a big fan of forwardchess (the prices generally are extremely competitive). In the intrests of fairness it is probably worth pointing out two additional features that go with many chessable versions.
Firstly, most courses have free video content. I can't afford to buy the versions with full video, but on some of the courses (Hellsten, for example) you do get and hour or two of free video. I am not sure just how valuable this is. It certainly doesn't make up for the increased cost as compared to ForwardChess.
However, the second feature - again with the Hellsten couses in mind - make them a no-brainer. You can post questions and Hellsten himself answers, usually within less than 24 hours. I found these unbelievably helpful. His generosity with his valuable time is astonishing. I probably spent a year working through his Endgame strategy book, and the dozens of responses really helped clarify my doubts. This is especially true when engine evaluations seemd to contradict his move. The man is a legend!
Thank you. Obrigado. Vídeos muito bons.
Thank you very much Albert for this very enlightening and interesting post. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this.
Wow! Having that book is like having gold in that book's weight! That's an incredible find! 😍😍😍😍 (Alekhines game collection)
Muy util la informacion. Es impagable saber como se verá el libro que quieres comprar y no arrepentirse después....gracias por compartir esa experiencia.
I have more than 1,000 chess books, among them the Alekhine one. In the last few years, I have been buying e-books (Kindle), but the experience is not the same. Some of the digital books I bought again on paper. Regarding opening books, physical books are better because one can browse the index quickly to look for variants or specific games. Studying chess on a cellphone comes with the problem of the board size and may be harmless to the eyes...There is another issue: New in Chess does not sell books to the country I live, Brazil, anymore, because of some problems with the postal service. The price and the cost in U$ or Euro is another factor that took me to the ebooks.
All of the ebook sellers I mention: Chessable, Forwardchess, and New In Chess, allow you to use their books in your desktop too, through the browser. That is actually how I study them. An alternate option, but one that I have not tested yet, is to buy an e-ink tablet like the Onyx Boox Go 7, which can access and install Google Play apps.
Interactive material is all I've purchased for years, because it's so efficient. However, I want to reboot my chess and among other things include a book of Alekhine's games to study with a real set. I don't know which to choose. Can you recommend one for it's instructional value? I'd prefer minimal variations and ample prose.
I don't think you can choose and pick the annotation style of Alekhine, but in terms of recommendations it is easy: My Best Games of Chess. Get the 21st century edition (not the Dover edition) as it is in algebraic notation, among other things. www.amazon.com/Best-Games-Chess-1908-1937-Century/dp/193649065X/
You are referring to the "red books" such as the one Fischer used to prepare for his Spassky match, as seen in his 60 Minutes interview before the 1972 match.
@@ilanpi My goodness, a fellow fanatic! I love it. Believe it or not, I actually had that comment in the video footage but edited it out because I felt it would be too many trivia points and detract from the focus of this video. But I am including it in the Chessbase article that I am writing up.
@@chess_and_tech Hello! I got the Petrosian one and it helped me reach the next level. I liked those books because I don't really appreciate commentary and analysis. The book allowed me to recognise candidate moves in closed positions, which had been a big issue for me.
Oh no! Chessbase Books - now I’ll be buying more chess books…