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Re: Best book of miniatures?
Reply #4 - 10/30/10 at 10:19:54
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In addition to Nunn's book, I also like the older (1963) 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures by P. H. Clarke.
  

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Re: Best book of miniatures?
Reply #3 - 10/30/10 at 06:48:33
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Gambit + Nunn + expanded edition.  Think we have a winner.

Thanks S & G!

BTW, just bought Fritz 12 last week so pretty much any excuse to play with it works.  Had no clue could do this.   
  
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Re: Best book of miniatures?
Reply #2 - 10/29/10 at 19:57:13
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snits wrote on 10/29/10 at 07:56:03:
Nunn's "101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures" has been re-issued...

Do not try to save $ by buying a used copy of the first issue of this book. The production values were awful, the book was physically difficult to read. The actual and analysis moves were intensely intermingled, yet Figurine notation was used: the problem is that while letters and numbers can be bolded, the figurines Gambit used (still uses) cannot be bolded. It was too hard to distinguish.

The original production/issuance of the book contains very little text. You can more easily follow mini games by telling Fritz to search for all decisive games of move-pair counts from 20-24, and add an Elo filter.
Then run a quickie "Compare Analysis" (or maybe Blunder Check) on one game (depth=11 is fast).

I suppose tho that Nunn selected much more interesting games than you are likely to get from a Fritz search.
  

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Re: Best book of miniatures?
Reply #1 - 10/29/10 at 07:56:03
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Nunn's "101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures" has been re-issued and expanded as "Grandmaster Secrets: Winning Quickly at Chess"
  
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Best book of miniatures?
10/28/10 at 21:34:18
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Miniatures are great for when you don't have time to play over full games and for working on tactical vision.  Plus they are just plain fun; I really enjoy playing over collections of miniatures when ever I run across them in magazines or online.  But, chess books are already taking up more space on my bookshelves then I'd like (with go books rapidly approaching this status) so one will have to do.  Heard good things about Nunn's "101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures" and Mcdonald's "Modern Chess Miniatures."  Don't know if there is a "best" when it comes to this topic but I thought I'd ask.  BTW, it doesn't matter whether the book is older or newer just that its the best single book that can be had one the subject of chess miniatures (again, if such a thing exists).  Thanks in advance for any advice.      
  
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