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- S. Tarrasch
“Three Hundred
Chess Games”
- level: except beginners
- 366 pages, verified: algebraic notation
- Probably, the best chess book of 19th century. Siegbert Tarrasch tells about his chess
career up to 1894. The most interesting and useful part of the book is the chapter about
the great match Tarrasch - Chigorin (1893): there are very detailed commentaries and
high-quality games (22 at all). Many experts suppose that this match was a most important
one in the century.
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- S. Tarrasch “St.
Petersburg 1914: international chess tournament”
- For any qualified players and for everybody interested
by chess history
- 267 pages
- The Petersburg supertournament of 1914 had got a special
place in the chess history: the first rivalry between Lasker and Capablanca, the first
grand success of Alexander Alekhine. In general, it was the most important tournament in
the start of XX century, and there were created a good many of high-level games. There are
"wise, instructive, witty" (Vassily Smyslov in the foreword for Russian edition)
annotations to games of Siegbert Tarrasch. And the annotations are not short! The author
also tells about the events on the tournament in detail. One of the best chess books about
tournaments in the history.
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- S. Tarrasch
"The Game of Chess"
- level: beginner - weak club player
- 270 pages (small font)
- Minus: the descriptive notation ("1.P-K4")
instead of new notation - algebraic ("1.e4"), but it's not important for
manuals.
- It's, probably, the book #1 for advanced beginners and weak
amateurs. It covers endings (first), tactics (second), and opening play (at last). The
final part has some not very complicated games with the detailed explanations of Siegbert
Tarrasch (need to say that he was called "the instructor of chess world" and had
real literary talent). A lot of very typical and important chess examples.
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- F. Reinfeld “Tarrasch's
Best Games of Chess”
- level: qualified
- 385-page
- 183 of Siegbert Tarrasch's best games. The best games of Tarrasch are very useful for
students because of their strategic and logical power.
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- S. Tarrasch
"The Modern Chess Game" (written in 1912-1924)
- level: except beginners
- The strange fact: practically not available in English
- Only during the life of the classic the book had 4
editions. More than 200 commented selected games of the start of 20th century (not only
Tarrasch's games). The main work of Tarrasch - an absolutely classic chess book.
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