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Book Reviews by John Watson
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John Watson is a
respected writer whose book "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy"
[GAMBIT] won BCF book of the year. He has a new book "Guide To Modern Benoni" -
GAMBIT 2001
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Introduction
Review #86
The Big Three and Then Some
Review #85
A Convenient Truth
Review #84
There's an end to it all
Review #83
My New CDs and Somebody Else's System
Review #83
Quality Books Reply to My System Review # 83 (and a response from John Watson)
Review #82
Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 3
Review #81
Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 2
Review #80
Historical and Biographical Works, Installment 1
Review #79
The End of Openings, Part 2
Review #78
The End of Openings
Review #77
Good...Good...Good...Disastrous Review #76 More 2006
Opening Books and Complements Review #75 Openings
2006: Complementary and Unusual Review #74 Books of 2006
Review #73
The Best on Disc, and More Recommendations Review #72 Favorites
Part 2 and Recommended Products Review #71 Favorites,
Part 1 Review
#70 Lives and Games, Part 2 Review #69 Lives and
Games, Part 1 Review #68 In the
Beginning There Was Theory Part 2 Review #67 In the
Beginning There Was Theory Review #66 Strategy and
Practice Review #65 The End
[game] Comes Before We Know It Review #64 Once More
into the Breach Review #63 Looking
Backward, Again
Review #62 Danish
Dynamite
Review #61 The Past: A Reliable Guess? Review #60 Opening
Books in Pairs
Review #59
Catching Up With Openings: Quality First
Review #58 The
Real Champions, or Garry's Guys?
Review #57 Newish
Books, Part 2
Review #56 Newish
Books, Part 1
Review #55 The CD
Deluge Continues - Biographies on CD Review #54 The CD
Deluge Continues Review #53 By
Publisher, Part 3 Review #52 By
Publisher, Part 2 Review #51 By
Publisher, Part 1 Review #50 Some
General Works and Ongoing Favorites Review #49 One Good,
One Bad [Part Two]
Review #48 One
Good, One Bad [Part One]
Review #47 CDs
You Might Want to Know About
Review #46 The
Chigorin Defence, Korchnoi, etc.
Review #45 The
Watson Defence
Review #44
One-book Repertoires, Online Bargain
Review #43 Books of
Many Flavours
Review #42 Chess CDs:
Coming of Age? Review #41
Kasparov's Story: A Video Biography
Review#40
Franzoesisch Winawer
Review #39 Noteworthy
Releases, Part 3
Review #38 Noteworthy
Releases, Part 2
Review #37 Noteworthy
Releases, Part 1
Review #36: What
Should the Average Player Study?
Review #35: Email,
Addenda, Reviews
Review #34: A
Remarkable Publisher and Other Topics
Review
#33: Some Products and Two First-Rate Books
Review
#32: Testifying for the Defence... Review #31:
More on Opening Books Review #30:
Mini-Reviews of Noteworthy Releases Review
#29: Coping With the Flood, Part 2 Review #28:
MCO 14 (in part, vs. NCO) Review #27:
Coping With the Flood, Part 1 Review
#26: Endings, endings, endings
Review
#25: Openings, High Level and Club
Review
#24: Looking Back, Part 2
Review
#23: Looking Back, Part 1
Review
#22: The Complex Benko/Benoni Complex
Review
#21: Electronic Instruction and an Excursion into History
Review
#20: The Road to Chess Improvement by Alex Yermolinsky
Review
#19: 8 Recent Books and CDs
Review
#18: A New Approach to Internet Chess Study (a review of
ChessPublishing.com).
Review
#17: Dance of the c-pawns.
Review
#16: Stories, Training, and Data.
Review #15: Review of
Kings, Commoners, and Knaves by Edward Winter. Review #14: Comments on
the Great Dvoretsky Project
Review #13: More NCO,
Gambits and Repertoires
Review #12:
Assorted Recent Books Review #11: NCO: A
preliminary Look Review #10: Second
to Nunn? Review #9: Odds and Ends
#2: Improvement and the Openings
Review #8: Odds and Ends
#1: Books for the Developing Player
Review #7: Two
High-Quality Opening Books Review #6: Chess Videos:
Indulge Yourself! Review #5: Reflections on
Opening Repertoire Books
Review #4: Some Recent
French Defense Books
Review #3: Four Small
Chess Publishers from the U.S.
Review #2: Three
Improvement Books Review #1: Three
games collections
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new chess books sold by the London Chess
Centre
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