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Date: 17 Oct 2007 11:21:46
From: madigi
Subject: Paul Motwani's books
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I study and appreciate Watson's, Aagard's, Silman's, Soltis', Crouch's
and Flear's books. I'm studyng Dvoretsky. Recently I hear people talk
about Motwanis' books. I'm searching on google, but I can't find useful
information to know if I must buy them. Did anyone of you study these books?
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Date: 17 Oct 2007 15:41:05
From: SBD
Subject: Re: Paul Motwani's books
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On Oct 17, 9:36 am, David Richerby <[email protected] >
wrote:
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> But probably also find Silman too elementary, no?
Silman is one of those writers where, even in his elementary works,
presents little nuggets of wisdom up to my level at least. I own all
his books; they make for a nice review/clarification of certain
points.
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Date: 18 Oct 2007 11:15:43
From: madigi
Subject: Re: Paul Motwani's books
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Thanks to all.
Another chess writer is Mednis, I enjoied its Rate your endgame. Its
others books are less elementars?
I don't Guess Silman is elementar. Its approach is more simple, but very
interesting. I prefer Silman books (at least the third of its serie)to
Aagard's books, e.g.
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Date: 17 Oct 2007 06:19:58
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Paul Motwani's books
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On Oct 17, 5:21 am, madigi <[email protected] > wrote:
> I study and appreciate Watson's, Aagard's, Silman's, Soltis', Crouch's
> and Flear's books. I'm studyng Dvoretsky. Recently I hear people talk
> about Motwanis' books. I'm searching on google, but I can't find useful
> information to know if I must buy them. Did anyone of you study these books?
Motwani offers reasonably good instruction for club-level players,
though certainly no better than the authors you have named, and often
not as good. However, I found his writing style intolerable:
disjointed, unfocused, full of irrelevancies, and insufferably
infantile. Here are my reviews of two of his books:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/power.pdf
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/younggm.txt
In fairness, it should be noted that not everyone agrees with me:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/htchess.txt
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/cool.txt
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/star.txt
In closing I would add that if you're able to understand and absorb
the likes of Watson and Dvoretsky, then you will probably find Motwani
too elementary.
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Date: 17 Oct 2007 15:36:34
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Paul Motwani's books
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Taylor Kingston <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Oct 17, 5:21 am, madigi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I study and appreciate Watson's, Aagard's, Silman's, Soltis',
>> Crouch's and Flear's books. I'm studyng Dvoretsky. Recently I hear
>> people talk about Motwanis' books. I'm searching on google, but I
>> can't find useful information to know if I must buy them. Did
>> anyone of you study these books?
>
> [...] I would add that if you're able to understand and absorb the
> likes of Watson and Dvoretsky, then you will probably find Motwani
> too elementary.
But probably also find Silman too elementary, no?
Dave.
--
David Richerby Psychotic Frozen Laser (TM): it's
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ like an intense beam of light but it's
frozen in a block of ice and it wants
to kill you!
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