Dynamic Chess: The Modern Style of Aggressive Play

By R.N. Coles and R. N Coles

Book Overview

Dynamic Chess [Paperback] Coles (Author) 195 pages Publisher: Dover Publications; Revised edition (June 1, 1966) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486216764
• ISBN13: 9780486216768
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Dover Pubns
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Synopsis

This scholarly essay in intellectual progress over the chess board shows how the pessimists who thought chess played out - destined to become victim to the death of a thousand draws - were refuted by the dynamic risky games of Alexander Alekhine, whose legacy lived on in the games of Soviet and Russian champions such as Mikhail Tal. With computers taking an ever increasing role in modern chess and challenging the modern champions Kasparov and Kramnik, the author's thoughts on the inexhaustible creative potential of chess assume even greater significance. R.N.Coles was a chess writer of great distinction with a number of books to his credit, including a biography of the Indian genius Sultan Khan, and co-authorship with Ray Keene of the standard biography of Howard Staunton. Coles was a regular contributor to the British Chess Magazine and Dynamic Chess is his acknowledged masterpiece.

Dynamic Chess

This is a very interesting and well written book on chess. It shows the evolution of many openings and concentrates on the contributions made to these openings by the Russians in the first part of the 20th century, up to the 1960's. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the evolution of hypermodernism. The second part is about the Russian school. It shows how the Russians took openings that were considered inferior, because of structural weaknesses, and revitalized them by learning to exploit the dynamic chances available in the positions (particularly the Kings Indian and Sicilian defenses). The chapters are categorized by opening. The book uses grandmaster sample games to show ideas. Another interesting point of the book is that it gives a historical perspective on how Russian chess rose from the ashes to become the dominating power of the chess world. Very interesting for those of us who were not alive back then.