John Watson Chess Book Reviews
John Watson reviews chess books, electronic books and software.
History and General Works Part 5. John Watson Book Review #100 (100)
John Watson brings up a century of reviews for TWIC (there is an archive of all these here) with a final set on "History and General Works". These follow the recent: Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. John Watson looks at: Modern Chess: Move by Move by Colin Crouch, The Art of Attacking Chess; Zenon Franco, Grandmaster Secrets: Counter-Attack! by Zenon Franco, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland by Tim Harding, Genius in the Background by Tibor Károlyi and Nick Aplin, Jose Raul Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker, Second World Chess Champion by Isaak and Vladimir Linder, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall by Frank Brady, AVRO 1938 International Chess Tournament and The Mammoth Book of The World’s Greatest Chess Games.
John Watson Book Reviews (100)
IM John Watson (Wed Feb 9 17:33:00 2011)
Endgame: Bobby Fischer. Photo © | http://www.chess.co.uk/twic
John Watson Book Reviews (99)
History and General Works Part 4. John Watson Book Review #99
IM John Watson | Sat Jan 22 08:18:00 2011
John Watson Book Reviews (98)
History and General Works Part 3. John Watson Book Review #98
IM John Watson | Wed Jan 12 10:27:00 2011
John Watson Book Reviews (#97)
History and General Works Part 2. John Watson Book Review #97
IM John Watson | Sat Jan 8 20:43:00 2011
John Watson Book Review (96)
History and General Works Part 1. John Watson Book Review #96
IM John Watson | Tue May 11 10:54:00 2010
John Watson Book Reviews (95)
New Editions. John Watson Book Review #95
IM John Watson | Sat May 1 07:01:00 2010
John Watson Book Review (93)
The Never-ending Opening Project
IM John Watson | Thu Sep 10 08:42:00 2009
John Watson Book Review (92)
Opening Books en Masse, Part 3
IM John Watson | Sat Feb 28 11:05:00 2009
John Watson Book Review (91)
IM John Watson | Thu Feb 12 10:50:00 2009
John Watson Book Review (89)
Getting to Know Kramnik and Anand
IM John Watson | Tue Oct 14 10:40:00 2008
John Watson Book Review (83)
My New CDs and Somebody Else's System
IM John Watson | Fri Oct 19 00:45:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (82)
Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 3
IM John Watson | Fri Sep 7 00:49:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (81)
Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 2
IM John Watson | Thu Sep 6 00:51:00 2007
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Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 1
IM John Watson | Wed Sep 5 00:52:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (77)
Good...Good...Good...Disastrous
IM John Watson | Sun Sep 2 00:58:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (76)
More 2006 Opening Books and Complements
IM John Watson | Sat Sep 1 01:00:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (75)
Openings 2006: Complementary and Unusual
IM John Watson | Wed Jan 31 01:02:00 2007
John Watson Book Review (73)
The Best on Disc, and More Recommendations
IM John Watson | Wed Nov 1 01:15:00 2006
John Watson Book Review (72)
Favorites Part 2 and Recommended Products
IM John Watson | Sun Oct 30 02:22:00 2005
John Watson Book Review (68)
In the Beginning There Was Theory Part 2
IM John Watson | Thu Aug 18 10:00:00 2005
John Watson Book Review (67)
In the Beginning There Was Theory
IM John Watson | Fri Apr 8 10:06:00 2005
John Watson Book Review (65)
The End [game] Comes Before We Know It
IM John Watson | Mon Jan 31 10:24:00 2005
John Watson Book Review (59)
Catching Up With Openings: Quality First
IM John Watson | Fri Feb 21 23:45:00 2003
John Watson Book Review (58)
The Real Champions, or Garry's Guys?
IM John Watson | Fri Feb 21 20:47:00 2003
John Watson Book Review (55)
The CD Deluge Continues - Biographies on CD
IM John Watson | Sun Feb 2 21:14:00 2003
John Watson Book Review (50)
Some General Works and Ongoing Favorites
IM John Watson | Thu Jan 9 21:55:00 2003
John Watson Book Review (47)
CDs You Might Want to Know About
IM John Watson | Sat Nov 9 22:20:00 2002
John Watson Book Review (46)
The Chigorin Defence, Korchnoi, etc.
IM John Watson | Sat Sep 28 22:29:00 2002
John Watson Book Review (44)
One-book Repertoires, Online Bargain
IM John Watson | Thu Jan 31 22:41:00 2002
John Watson Book Review (41)
Kasparov's Story: A Video Biography
IM John Watson | Wed May 23 23:01:00 2001
John Watson Book Review (36)
What Should the Average Player Study?
IM John Watson | Thu Mar 29 23:34:00 2001
John Watson Book Review (34)
A Remarkable Publisher and Other Topics
IM John Watson | Thu Feb 8 23:41:00 2001
John Watson Book Review (33)
Some Products and Two First-Rate Books
IM John Watson | Thu Feb 1 18:30:00 2001
John Watson Book Review (30)
Mini-Reviews of Noteworthy Releases
IM John Watson | Fri Dec 1 18:37:00 2000
John Watson Book Review (29)
IM John Watson | Sat Sep 30 17:45:00 2000
John Watson Book Review (27)
IM John Watson | Sun Apr 23 17:50:00 2000
John Watson Book Review (25)
IM John Watson | Sat Feb 26 17:54:00 2000
John Watson Book Review (22)
The Complex Benko/Benoni Complex
IM John Watson | Fri Dec 31 18:00:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (21)
Electronic Instruction and an Excursion
IM John Watson | Wed Dec 29 18:03:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (18)
A New Approach to Internet Chess Study
IM John Watson | Sun Sep 26 17:28:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (15)
Kings, Commoners, and Knaves; Edward Winter
IM John Watson | Thu Sep 16 17:33:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (14)
Comments on the Great Dvoretsky Project
IM John Watson | Mon Sep 13 17:36:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (13)
More NCO, Gambits and Repertoires
IM John Watson | Sat Sep 11 17:37:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (9)
Odds and Ends #2: Improvement and the Openings
IM John Watson | Sun Apr 18 17:23:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (8)
Odds and Ends #1: Books for the Developing Player
IM John Watson | Sat Apr 17 17:20:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (7)
Two High-Quality Opening Books
IM John Watson | Thu Apr 15 17:18:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (6)
Chess Videos: Indulge Yourself!
IM John Watson | Tue Apr 13 17:16:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (5)
Reflections on Opening Repertoire Books
IM John Watson | Mon Apr 12 17:14:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (3)
Four Small Publishers from the US
IM John Watson | Sat Apr 10 16:56:00 1999
John Watson Book Review (1)
Three World-Class Games Collections
IM John Watson | Thu Apr 8 16:44:00 1999






















