Capablanca has long been my favorite player. I find the study of his games contain a clarity of thought that many of the more modern players simply lack. I can understand what Capablanca is doing in his games, whereas I have no clue if I study say...Alexei Shirov. For anyone not at Master level, his games are great. I have this book, also "My Chess Career", Golombek's "Capablanca's Best Games", and Chernev"s "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings".
Haven’t listened yet, but this book was easily one of my favorites I’ve read. I suppose it depends on your edition, but I found his game against Marshall and the explanation of play on both sides of the board particularly instructive.
Loved the interview as I'm a 800ish player and do enjoy reading. Chess players are readers basically. I did learn from this and will work on my endgames. Thanks
I think I encountered a similar situation as Jessie when someone suggested me to read “The Soviet Chess Primer” by Ilya Maizelis… I enjoy reading it up to Chapter 4, but materials beyond that point is getting a bit hard to bite on (Combinations, Position Play, … ). Then I encountered this Chess Fundamentals… Since I do not have a teacher/coach, the way that I read the Fundamentals is trying to learn something by fiddling the Examples in the Fundamentals with SmallFish (iPad version of the StockFish) and Googling. This is how I found this podcast.
@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 yeah, and agree. then things escalated really fast as you two said in the podcast, I would definitely not recommend it to a beginner unless there are 1400 at least. It is unclear what a beginner is from his perspective, after all, it seems that he never was a beginner. The pros of the book would be the middle game and strategy in endgame these are gold for me but for other too complicated examples, it can be ignored. It is also rare as you said, a world championship wrote a book to show his 6 lost games in a raw, which made it so memorable. Especially, these lost games feature the consequence of not following the simple general principles and missing some candidate moves. But for chess primer, the structure is more clear, and Capablanca gave more explanation for each example (but there are quite examples are from Chess Fundamentals without adding anything). In the last section of the chapter middlegame, he showed us a few positions and explained in detail why the move is good and or not good. The evaluation he gave is just so good and accessible . I am gonna start reading the opening section today. He gave a vital intro in that section by saying sth like "opening books are for experts, average players would need to spend a lot of time on understanding these openings than the experts would do. What students should do instead is studying general laws and principles of the game". It is the kind of thing that really need to be taught to beginners. Anyway, thanks for the podcasts, i enjoy your channel.
Capablanca has long been my favorite player. I find the study of his games contain a clarity of thought that many of the more modern players simply lack. I can understand what Capablanca is doing in his games, whereas I have no clue if I study say...Alexei Shirov. For anyone not at Master level, his games are great. I have this book, also "My Chess Career", Golombek's "Capablanca's Best Games", and Chernev"s "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings".
Haven’t listened yet, but this book was easily one of my favorites I’ve read. I suppose it depends on your edition, but I found his game against Marshall and the explanation of play on both sides of the board particularly instructive.
I love that game, and Capa's games generally, i found the explanations a bit lacking :(
Loved the interview as I'm a 800ish player and do enjoy reading. Chess players are readers basically. I did learn from this and will work on my endgames. Thanks
I think I encountered a similar situation as Jessie when someone suggested me to read “The Soviet Chess Primer” by Ilya Maizelis… I enjoy reading it up to Chapter 4, but materials beyond that point is getting a bit hard to bite on (Combinations, Position Play, … ). Then I encountered this Chess Fundamentals… Since I do not have a teacher/coach, the way that I read the Fundamentals is trying to learn something by fiddling the Examples in the Fundamentals with SmallFish (iPad version of the StockFish) and Googling. This is how I found this podcast.
I love when improvers as myself appear on the program. Thanks! Btw, I'm 1200 at blitz on lichess and I have resolved both puzzles. Keep them rolling!
Thanks! It was interesting to hear about a chess book from the perspective of a beginner.
Thanks for another great book recap!
I'm 700 rating or so, I just bought the book. Hopefully I will learn something.
Also, thanks for doing blindfold puzzles!
Thanks Andre, my pleasure
First like and first comment !!
Botvinnik said this book was good I believe. And that guy was pretty opinionated on how chess should be played
Chess Fundamentals is not for beginners, Chess primer by Capablanca is the one that is for beginners
I get your point, but many recommend it as a beginner book, and it starts with how to checkmate with a rook!
@@perpetualchesspodcast9143 yeah, and agree. then things escalated really fast as you two said in the podcast, I would definitely not recommend it to a beginner unless there are 1400 at least. It is unclear what a beginner is from his perspective, after all, it seems that he never was a beginner. The pros of the book would be the middle game and strategy in endgame these are gold for me but for other too complicated examples, it can be ignored.
It is also rare as you said, a world championship wrote a book to show his 6 lost games in a raw, which made it so memorable. Especially, these lost games feature the consequence of not following the simple general principles and missing some candidate moves.
But for chess primer, the structure is more clear, and Capablanca gave more explanation for each example (but there are quite examples are from Chess Fundamentals without adding anything). In the last section of the chapter middlegame, he showed us a few positions and explained in detail why the move is good and or not good. The evaluation he gave is just so good and accessible . I am gonna start reading the opening section today. He gave a vital intro in that section by saying sth like "opening books are for experts, average players would need to spend a lot of time on understanding these openings than the experts would do. What students should do instead is studying general laws and principles of the game". It is the kind of thing that really need to be taught to beginners.
Anyway, thanks for the podcasts, i enjoy your channel.