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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Chess is Fun
And I stress Nimzovitch, because his concepts, if not his play, provide a way of thinking about the game that is very instructive.
Aron Nimzovitch's My System is widely recognized as a classic of chess literature.
A sublement to My System, with further explanation of Nimzovitch's ideas and concepts.
www.queensac.com /nimzovitch.html   (320 words)

  
  JUDAISM and CHESS - Gustavo Perednik
In 1837 a French Jew, Aron Alexandre, wrote the first Encyclopedia of Chess, and two years afterwards one of the Haskalah educators, Jacob Einchenbaum, who was also a mathematician, wrote Ha-kerav (the battle) a Hebrew poem on the game almost five hundred lines in length.
Aron Nimzovitch, Samuel Reshevsky and Akiva Rubinstein were great world masters educated in Yeshivas.
Talmudic thought is parallel to chess training in seven ways: the indispensability of study, memory, visual comprehension, the centrality and rigidity of law, the importance of debate, the need for bold intelligence, and an antiauthoritarian and original way of raising alternatives.
www.metajedrez.com.ar /judaism.htm   (1417 words)

  
 Welcome to the Black & White Jungle
Its a very personal thing when one loses because this is a game of my mind against yours, my will against yours, and mine is smarter, more intelligent, and capable of thinking harder, longer, and better.
In a different tournament, Nimzovitch yelled at his opponent Opocensky, who had stood up to stretch while the game was being played, "Stop shaking your belly!" We laugh in amusement at these merry old stories of the past Grandmasters of Chess.
Not only is their wit and humanness apparent, but their wisdom as well as their pluck and verve is also.
www2.ida.net /graphics/shirtail/welcome.htm   (948 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Deadly threats
It's definitely in the "intermediate to advanced" range but, while the author's approach is similar to that used in his two prior CDs, Deadly Threats isn't a "general tactics trainer" -- it's a CD with a theme.
We've all heard the old story about Aron Nimzovitch saying that "the threat is stronger than the execution".
If I had to characterize this new CD, I'd say that Renko's theme is "the threat is part of the execution".
www.chessbase.com /newsprint.asp?newsid=1234   (1145 words)

  
 Irene in Munich, from Sandcastles
Finally, he opened up his satchel, took out chess board and set and a well-worn copy of My System by Aron Nimzovitch.
His eyes were watering from the smoke in the air.
Why not?" She put five marks on the table, so he did the same.
www.samizdat.com /sand6.html   (3436 words)

  
 Look Up (Finger) Player Fischer2nd
Then, move on to Reassesing Your Chess with (Jeremy Silman) 5: Learn to plan, select candidate moves, etc with Silman's large work.
And finally learn to play positional chess with Aron Nimzovitch in My System and Chess Praxis 6: Tactics : Learn the themes and definitions exampled with many diagrammed positions in Lev Alburt and Sam Palatnik's Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player.
Then put them in Use with the Anthology of Chess Combo's by Chess Informant.
www.chessclub.com /finger/Fischer2nd   (335 words)

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