Chess-Themed Reading List - OzChess

**Chessic-Adventures** · 05-17-2008, 11:23 PM

What books are on your chess-themed reading list? What have you already read that pertains to the game of chess? Why do you enjoy reading chess-related books - to improve your game? Do you just find them interesting?

**Chessic-Adventures** · 05-23-2008, 05:30 PM

I would also like to add another question - do you prefer to read fiction or more instructional chess books? I'm looking for some good fiction right now, anything chess related you've read recently?

**Ziah** · 05-23-2008, 08:23 PM

I only know of one fictional chess book, but its a good one. Its called 'The queens gambit', and is about a girl chess prodigy. Don't know who the author is though. Its an ok book.

**Noddy** · 05-23-2008, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ziah

I only know of one fictional chess book, but its a good one. Its called 'The queens gambit', and is about a girl chess prodigy. Don't know who the author is though. Its an ok book.

I think they made that book into a movie. I saw it years ago, and the ending is unexpectedly surprising. It was one of those movies where they tried to compensate a lack of plot with extra trajedy and saddness.

**Chessic-Adventures** · 05-24-2008, 03:04 PM

I've never heard of it, I make take a look at it. It was written by Walter Tevis in case anybody else would like to look it up.

05-24-2008, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Thomas Bishop

I think they made that book into a movie. I saw it years ago,

queens gambit has never been filmed so you cant have seen it

heath ledger was working on filming it when he died

It was one of those movies where they tried to compensate a lack of plot with extra trajedy and saddness.

but the book has a happy ending!

**Chessic-Adventures** · 05-24-2008, 04:42 PM

I thought it was a bit odd when I went to look up the movie on IMDB and it wasn't listed. Maybe you're confusing it with a different movie?

**Iconoclast** · 05-25-2008, 01:05 PM

Last year I read "Chess Bitch." It is more a slice of chess life than a slab of male ego. I recommend it for normal people only - fanatical players would think, "Yeah, but a winning line was obvious." [boom-boom]

**Axiom Support Group** · 01-28-2010, 08:11 PM

1) A thought provoking article by Shaun Press in his respected BLOG.
"Worth revisiting my policy on comments/spam on my blog, for those who came in late.
The comments section to this blog is not moderated, which means that any comments added to a post appear immediately. It is also possible to post anonymously in the comments section, and not only is their no restriction on this, the posts are truly anonymous (ie I do not know who has made an anonymous post). Of course you are able to (and encouraged to) identify yourself in any post you make, especially if you are looking for a reply from me. While I think the mark of an interesting blog is interaction between author and readers, I have a personal policy of not responding to anonymous posts (even when I really, really want to). So you have the freedom to post anonymously, I just exercise my freedom to ignore you.
Of course this policy does allow spam to pop up in the comments section. This has become more frequent recently. Some of it is relatively innocuous (such as the banal 'I think your blog is better now' type 'testing' posts to see if I am moderating), to the annoying 'come and visit my possibly criminal website'. In the end I'm not going to pull these posts as you can simply skim over them, or see them for the dross that they are. As for comments which may be abusive or offensive, they seem to be a rarity on this blog (especially compared to foums which have a moderation policy that professes to deal with them). Again I wil leave them there, although I do sometime attach a *not safe for work* tag the post, again leaving up to you own judgement about what you can and cannot read.
Overall, while the amount of comments on this blog are fairly light, they are normally pretty good, and I encourage anyone with a point of view to add to the debate. "

Once again I do request that anonymous contributors on this blog get names (indeed I think AR should ban all anonymous commenting). It is helpful to us in evaluating feedback to know how much of it is coming from independent commentators and how much (and I suspect the post commenting about Brian Jones is a case in point) is coming from familiar suspects hiding behind anonymity.
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05-17-2008, 11:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
Chessic-Adventures Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 221	Chess-Themed Reading List What books are on your chess-themed reading list? What have you already read that pertains to the game of chess? Why do you enjoy reading chess-related books - to improve your game? Do you just find them interesting?

05-23-2008, 09:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
Noddy Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toyland Posts: 256	Originally Posted by Ziah I only know of one fictional chess book, but its a good one. Its called 'The queens gambit', and is about a girl chess prodigy. Don't know who the author is though. Its an ok book. I think they made that book into a movie. I saw it years ago, and the ending is unexpectedly surprising. It was one of those movies where they tried to compensate a lack of plot with extra trajedy and saddness.

05-24-2008, 04:39 PM	#6 (permalink)
lotlizard Posts: n/a	Originally Posted by Thomas Bishop I think they made that book into a movie. I saw it years ago, queens gambit has never been filmed so you cant have seen it heath ledger was working on filming it when he died It was one of those movies where they tried to compensate a lack of plot with extra trajedy and saddness. but the book has a happy ending!

05-25-2008, 01:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
Iconoclast Immoderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wollongong NSW Posts: 2,302	Last year I read "Chess Bitch." It is more a slice of chess life than a slab of male ego. I recommend it for normal people only - fanatical players would think, "Yeah, but a winning line was obvious." [boom-boom] __________________ The individual is hopeless without the group. The group is hopeless without its individuals.

01-28-2010, 08:11 PM	#9 (permalink)
Axiom Support Group Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Laku, Ishmaelia Posts: 141	Censorship in the chess media. 1) A thought provoking article by Shaun Press in his respected BLOG. "Worth revisiting my policy on comments/spam on my blog, for those who came in late. The comments section to this blog is not moderated, which means that any comments added to a post appear immediately. It is also possible to post anonymously in the comments section, and not only is their no restriction on this, the posts are truly anonymous (ie I do not know who has made an anonymous post). Of course you are able to (and encouraged to) identify yourself in any post you make, especially if you are looking for a reply from me. While I think the mark of an interesting blog is interaction between author and readers, I have a personal policy of not responding to anonymous posts (even when I really, really want to). So you have the freedom to post anonymously, I just exercise my freedom to ignore you. Of course this policy does allow spam to pop up in the comments section. This has become more frequent recently. Some of it is relatively innocuous (such as the banal 'I think your blog is better now' type 'testing' posts to see if I am moderating), to the annoying 'come and visit my possibly criminal website'. In the end I'm not going to pull these posts as you can simply skim over them, or see them for the dross that they are. As for comments which may be abusive or offensive, they seem to be a rarity on this blog (especially compared to foums which have a moderation policy that professes to deal with them). Again I wil leave them there, although I do sometime attach a not safe for work tag the post, again leaving up to you own judgement about what you can and cannot read. Overall, while the amount of comments on this blog are fairly light, they are normally pretty good, and I encourage anyone with a point of view to add to the debate. " Once again I do request that anonymous contributors on this blog get names (indeed I think AR should ban all anonymous commenting). It is helpful to us in evaluating feedback to know how much of it is coming from independent commentators and how much (and I suspect the post commenting about Brian Jones is a case in point) is coming from familiar suspects hiding behind anonymity. ______________________________ 2) A complainer in Amiel Rosario's BLOG "Once again I do request that anonymous contributors on this blog get names (indeed I think AR should ban all anonymous commenting). It is helpful to us in evaluating feedback to know how much of it is coming from independent commentators and how much (and I suspect the post commenting about Brian Jones is a case in point) is coming from familiar suspects hiding behind anonymity. " ______________________________ 3) The ACF Newletter Ozchess link is banned. ______________________________ 4) Chesschat __________________ Make AXIOM a moderator and let real analysis cut the still night air.

05-23-2008, 05:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
Chessic-Adventures Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 221	I would also like to add another question - do you prefer to read fiction or more instructional chess books? I'm looking for some good fiction right now, anything chess related you've read recently?

05-23-2008, 08:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
Ziah Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 28	I only know of one fictional chess book, but its a good one. Its called 'The queens gambit', and is about a girl chess prodigy. Don't know who the author is though. Its an ok book.

05-24-2008, 03:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
Chessic-Adventures Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 221	I've never heard of it, I make take a look at it. It was written by Walter Tevis in case anybody else would like to look it up.

05-24-2008, 04:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
Chessic-Adventures Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 221	I thought it was a bit odd when I went to look up the movie on IMDB and it wasn't listed. Maybe you're confusing it with a different movie?

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