About Ståhlbergs book yes Keres is co author. Did not notice it before. 

It is impossible to tell who wrote each comment.Ståhlberg probebly translated Keres words anyway to give the book the same word style. The book has few concrete lines and mostly verbal comments.

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Another question is if Keres's contribution to both books is actually the same (except for translation, of course).

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 09/08/20 at 15:46:03:


I read through the blog article and only see four independent books in English. So I guess you are counting the two translations of Bronstein separately.

So in languages other than English (original) we apparently have:

Euwe (with Keres and Lange) (1954) - German
Najdorf (1954) - Spanish
Keres and Ståhlberg (1954) - Swedish
Bronstein (1956) - Russian

Any others?


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bragesjo wrote on 07/30/20 at 18:30:08:


In fact at least 5 
http://www.hardingesimpole.co.uk/biblio/1843820854.htm

I once saw a copy of this secondhand at Chess & Bridge in Baker Street, London. I didn't buy it on principle (the principle of not spending money on Hardinge and Simpole's shite), but in retrospect I regret it as it was only a few pounds and in good nick. Also as it was second hand H/S wouldn't have got the money.

I do already have two of the four books you mentioned though so perhaps a third would have been greedy.


I'm very much enjoying Jimmy Adams' translation of Boleslavsky's 100 Selected Games (I think that's the title).  Great games and a very well produced book.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 07/27/20 at 19:42:20:


They are all favorites in one sense or another.  Some for sentimental reasons.  But I gave a top 10 earlier in the thread (#79).  Not sure if it would be the same today, but close enough.   

LeeRoth wrote on 07/27/20 at 20:01:24:

I don't think that was true even in 1953.

cathexis wrote on 07/27/20 at 17:53:57:

Correct. See the original post. And Zurich 1953 was already mentioned in Reply #2 with the same question. Reply #3 answered.

LeeRoth wrote on 07/27/20 at 16:38:49:

That's a great short list. I first read them in the order 2, 3, 4, 1, and I rank them most favorite to least as 3, 4, 1, 2. But a large part of that has to be my very young age when I read them. For example, The Test of Time I read when I was much older, and could not separate Kasparov's personality from his writings. So if someone picks up Fischer's book today, or indeed any strong personality's book, and has a similar reaction, I can sympathize. But I think it hurt me as a player not to study Kasparov's games deeply. Anyone who ignores Fischer's games is also making a mistake.

Somewhere on the web My 60 Memorable Games was called "over-rated". This kind of criticism I dismiss out of hand. If many people rate a book as #1 and I rate it as #20, or even as #2, of course I would think it's over-rated. Saying so adds zero to the discussion. Better to give some reasons.

The OP asked about favorites. Your longer list has titles of interest, but they cannot all be favorites.