
If one has to understand the King's Indian Defence and the Nimzo Indian Defence, there cannot be a better place to start than acquainting oneself with reading this book thoroughly as there are more than 50 games each played in these openings and Bronstein has commented very deeply about their secrets. This leads to lesser mobility for one's own pieces and renders one impotent to prevent opponent's pieces from moving freely, targeting those weak squares or using them as outposts and launch pad. It is a common knowledge that even great players commit mistakes which lead to weakening pivotal squares. In the very first game from this tournament, played between Szabo - Geller, he deals with "dark square weakness" and explains how it impacts the pieces on the light squares too! Like many concepts in chess, chess players have no lack of knowledge of principles of play and the various concepts but find it difficult to apply it practically. The game that explains the weakness of dark and light squares And although the wedding was memorable, these nine hours showed me a completely a new side towards how someone can love the game of chess.

Saravanan, Srikanth Govindaseshan and Ganesh Dorairaj. It was then that I got an invitation to the house of three true chess lovers - IM V. The reception ceremony was supposed to begin at 7 p.m. The wedding was early in the morning and we were done with the celebrations by 10 a.m. I went to Chennai on the 5th of June for the wedding of my friends GM Vishnu Prasanna and WIM Raghavi Nagarajan. In this series, experienced Chennai chess mentor Srikanth Govindaseshan brings in front of you his all time favourite classical books and tells you why you should be reading them. Chess ebooks have a lot of advantages over chess pbooks, so this should be a successful effort. Everyman is offering chess ebooks for sale in Chessbase format, which allows for interactive reading (shuffling pieces around the board, hopping through variations etc.).


The problem is we are so involved with engines and opening theory that we devote absolutely no time to developing our classical knowledge about the game. The files are available in ChessBase format (.cbv) and in.pgn format. There are hundreds of classical books written by the great masters of the past which have so much to teach us. I found a collection of PGN the last tournaments that had some but it was boring at best, to find them in a 2000 to 4000 file relative to the simple readers chapter books are fleshy, with more complex sentences and developments of Action, but the paragraphs are still short (2 to 4 sentences).
