Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award goes to Jacob Aagaard's Attacking Manual 2
Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2010
Hi Everyone,
It's that time of the year when everything is being summed up and '--- of the Year' awards are being announced. One of our favourites is of course 'The Guardian Chess Book of the Year'!
The award has gone to The Attacking Manual, Volume 2: Technique and Praxis: Technique and Praxis v. 2 by Jacob Aagaard. The six shortlisted titles for the award included:
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- John Healy's Coffeehouse Chess Tactics: An unusual book in that it's a collection of games, fragments and autobiographical gobbets by an unranked, though obviously talented, player. But, the judges felt, while the writing was much more literary than is usual in a chess book, they were left wanting more chess.
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- Andrew Soltis's Studying Chess Made Easy: is useful and accessible, but again there was a feeling that it's a little light.
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- Mastering the Chess Openings, vol 4, by the highly respected John Watson, is very readable, but slightly dry, according to the judges.
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- Garry Kasparov's Kasparov vs Karpov 1988-2009 continues the series begun in 2003 with My Great Predecessors. The judges said they admired the scale of Kasparov's enterprise, but found the formula too familiar.
- High-class games in Yasser Seirawan's Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions, was found to be witty by the judges but it fell short of the award.
So congratulations to Aagaard and Quality Chess. Find a neat chess example from the wining book at this Guardian page.
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5 Comments:
At November 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Hey I just bought that book. Wow.
At November 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM ,
Sebastian Wolff, New York said...
All of those are great books indeed. The judges must have had a tough time selecting. Why don't we have an Alexandra Kosteniuk Book of the Year Award? Or a Chessblog Book of the Year Award. That would be cool unless it sounds like being partial or something which the Chess Queen would not like to do. But I would love something like Chess Queen's Book of the Year Award. Dunno if it holds good. We still love you nevertheless Chess Queen.
At November 9, 2010 at 10:56 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Unfortunately I love all those six books. Great ones really.
At November 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM ,
Jane Bentley, London said...
Thanks for leading me to the Award. Do read the Guardian off and on but guess missed this one.
At November 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Nice selection.
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