/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12022270]

Books on chess ?
Strategy, anecdotes, fiction...
Anything will do

[Anonymous No.12022291]

>>12022270

[Anonymous No.12022294]

>>12022270
Learn Go instead

[Anonymous No.12022494]

>>12022270
Life: A user's manuel by Georges Perec is an experimental book based on a chess manuever.

[Anonymous No.12022531]

>>12022270
the combinations

[Anonymous No.12022667]

>>12022294
If anything I'll learn riichi mahjong

[Anonymous No.12022819]

>playing a game that computers already completed

Why?

[Anonymous No.12022830]

>>12022270
The Royal Game

[Anonymous No.12022840]

>>12022270
Young Bobby kinda looks like Jared Kushner, even though with a bit more masculine features and the fact that Jared is a zionist, while Bobby was redpilled to a degree that he was a self-hating Jew.

[Anonymous No.12022843]

>>12022819
>why?
why not?

[Anonymous No.12022862]

>>12022819
because its a great way to exercise your mind and have fun

[Anonymous No.12022867]

looked for this a while ago and saved this but haven't read it

[Anonymous No.12022871]

>>12022270
Why play chess when you can read or do math instead? Chess isn’t fun when you’re losing 50% of the time. If you DO play chess, only play yourself.

[Anonymous No.12022899]

>>12022270
The Great Chess Masters and their Games is a good place to start.

Many masters wrote books too. Reti's are quite good.

[Anonymous No.12022918]

>>12022819
Computers haven't completed chess, they've just beaten the best human players. Chess isn't a solved game.

[Anonymous No.12022934]

>>12022291
lol gay

[Anonymous No.12023018]

>>12022270
>>12022294

Or Tekken 3.

[Anonymous No.12023335]

Chess is a representation of race struggle.

[Anonymous No.12023470]

>>12023335
Well white does have the tempo advantage

[Anonymous No.12023483]

what are the best online resources for learning chess?

[Anonymous No.12023484]

>>12022270
The Luzhin defense

[Anonymous No.12023489]

>>12022270
Poems and Problems by Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.12023523]

bump
ive started 3 months ago and am 1400 on chess.com and 1500 on lichess right now. id like to know what books and/or websites are good for my level? id read on both tactics and strategy, as well as opening, midgame and endgame theory
also i like the sicilian against e4 and the indian against d4 and opening with either the london system/queens gambit or the ruy lopez so itd be great if someone had lit on those specific openings

[Anonymous No.12023532]

>>12022918
and likely won't be solved for a very long time given that it's NP hard

[Anonymous No.12023544]

test

[Anonymous No.12023593]

>>12022667
Do it fagit

[Anonymous No.12023607]

add me on chess.com
ebinspurdo33

[Anonymous No.12024397]

Nobakov wrote a book about some chess addicted boy.

[Anonymous No.12024428]

this is a great read so far as anecdotal accounts of the Soviet chess machine are concerned

[Anonymous No.12024609]

>>12023489
whats nabokov

[Anonymous No.12024673]

[Anonymous No.12024850]

Not a book but check agadmator on yt

[Anonymous No.12024905]

>>12022934
haha XD

[Anonymous No.12025216]

I recently got my hands on Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, and I highly recommend it. It's page after page of puzzles, diagrams, and direct explanations. It's changed the way I look at the board.

[Anonymous No.12025364]

>posts pic of the exact man who criticized the use of studying strategy in order to play chess
>asks for resources to study strategy

Just play the fucking game

[Anonymous No.12026112]

>>12022819
Chess isn't solved, yet, still, the best computers are so much better than us, i get that, but what can't computers beat us at?

[Anonymous No.12026115]

>>12026112
Anything that requires creativity

[Anonymous No.12026119]

>>12022819
>reading books that have already been scanned

[Anonymous No.12026121]

>>12022867
This. Also would recommend pawn power in chess by kmoch to anyone and if you're already good at chess chess tactics for advanced players by averbakh

[Anonymous No.12026129]

>>12026115
What games would that be that aren't so explicitly for leisure that one should prefer it over casual chess? My initial question was more a rhetorical argument in favor of chess, but if you have a serious game of creativity im open to it

[Anonymous No.12026130]

>>12023532
>NP-hard stands for, like, super tough

[Anonymous No.12026218]

Depends on what level of chess expertise youre on, if you just started a couple of months ago you shouldnt read nimzovitch but some basic tactics book
>>12025364
This is very not true, maybe it is at super mega grandmaster level but for a regular guy its very important to learn positional play. Bobby can say that only because he has already mastered it

[Anonymous No.12026240]

>>12022871
Why play video games? Why play card, or board games? Why play sports?

[Anonymous No.12026271]

>>12022294
>t. soulless asian insect man

[Anonymous No.12026736]

>>12022270

here's my stack of chess books--i'm not particularly good, but i enjoy the game a lot. really anything there is probably worth it/gonna make you a better player--but it's all very technical and you ought to know how to read chess boards/notations beforehand

[Anonymous No.12026740]

>>12022294

i also really like go, but have a more modest library than my chess books.

are you good?

[Anonymous No.12026746]

>>12026736
Reminder that Karpov is a little homo

[Anonymous No.12026805]

>>12026736
Impressive, thanks for contributing

[Anonymous No.12026975]

>>12022667
A-akagi san...

[Anonymous No.12026994]

>>12026112
Games that can be enhanced by psychological observation

[Anonymous No.12027031]

>>12026240
Imagine only playing one video game, then putting hours into buying books analyzing strategies on it, then reading all those books, then going in for lessons on that videogame, then joining different clubs that only examine that particular video game, then watching YouTube videos on it examining hundreds of different plays, then memorizing those plays like a literal insect, on top of the hundreds of hours that you've already played that game.
Now imagine that wasn't even a complex videogame, and was instead a shitty limited board game that has already been autistically analyzed to near completion. Even Fischer realized this eventually, because he wasn't an insect like everyone else who spent their lives playing chess and was actually smart. But now you can beat some people in a board game!

[Anonymous No.12027042]

>>12027031
who spent their lives playing chess, and was actually smart

[Anonymous No.12028123]

>>12027031
>dedication to a single thing is bad!
Looks like someone bought into disposable culture

[Anonymous No.12028152]

>>12026112
it literally is solved that is how computers pay it, they see all moves ahead and pick one that works best.

[Anonymous No.12028157]

>>12028152
That's not what it means for a game to be solved

[Anonymous No.12028181]

>>12026746
Wording this excellent post
He would have been a nobody if Fischer didn't abandon the game and kept his world champion title

[Anonymous No.12028572]

>>12028152
There are more possible chess matches than there are atoms in the observable universe. "Solved" in the context of a board game means a set of instructions that can be replicated that will lead the person following said instructions to win every single time.

[Proud Social Justice Warrior !BgjMIiqmkk No.12028710]

>>12027031
*now you can be competitive at an ancient game played by millions.

[Anonymous No.12028913]

>>12022270
Mikhail Tal is GOAT chess writer. His games are also uniquely fun (downside is that they're so fun that they're almost normie-tier popular)

[Anonymous No.12029111]

>>12027031
Imagine needing to feel superior over something this trivial.

[Anonymous No.12029402]

Ahem

[Anonymous No.12030219]

>>12028152
only endgames with six or less pieces are solved

the rest is open for interpretation

>>12022867
one should be acquainted with the general principles of his theory, but his illustrative games arent as bulletproof as he pretends. he almost never points out the high risk drawbacks of his moves in pursuit of his dogma. you can compare his annotations to more modern ones of the same games on http://chessgames.com/

my personal favs, meant for beginners, are znosko-borovsky's books