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The King: Chess Pieces
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9789056911713
ISBN: 9056911716
Label: New in Chess
Manufacturer: New in Chess
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 391
Publication Date: April 30, 2006
Publisher: New in Chess
Studio: New in Chess
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Editorial Review:
J.H.Donner (1927-1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one of the greatest writers about chess of all time. He was a chess reporter and a chess columnist, as well as an annotator of the game.Above all he was a witty and unpredictable commentator of everything and everybody, both inside and outside the chess world.THE KING spans a writing career of more than thirty years during which Donner slowly developed from chess player-writer into writer-chess player. Donner's favourite subjects are: Bobby Fischer, the blunder, chess as a game of luck,why women can't play chess, madness, and poor Lodewijk Prins, his contender for the Dutch National Championship for many years,who, according to Donner, "couldn't tell a bishop from a knight." THE KING is a book full of insults and ironies, but Donner wouldn't be Donner without his self-mockery.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - There is no Chess book Quite Like this
Donner was Denmark's strongest player since Euwe and a prolific chess journalist. In this collection of essays about chess, Donner claims (among other things) that "the fact is, women are much stupider than men", that "no Dutch can achieve anything worthwhile", and Ree is such a weak chess player he bet he would win the match with him at 150-to-1 odds. Of course, that doesn't for one minute stop him from praises Nona Gaprindashvili's victory in Lone Pine, 1977, worshipping Euwe, and being on friendly ... Read More
Rating: - The best chess book ever written!
This book stands out of competition. I have read many chess books, but this one is certainly the most entertaining book of all. It is a combination of chess and literature. This compilation of chess articles Donner wrote for several magazines, is full of witty chess anecdotes. Donner writes in his incomparable style, and I am sure that the English translation cannot render the exact content of the Dutch text (I have read in Dutch and it is beautiful Dutch). But since this book in Dutch is worth at least ... Read More
Rating: - Six Stars!
J.H. Donner was a chess journalist and Grandmaster from the Netherlands. This book assembles some of his best articles from his 30 year writing career. From the standpoint of reporting and history, you will get accounts of the author's contacts with Fischer, Spassky, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Bronstein, and other greats from that generation --that alone would have been worth the price. But in addition, what emerges is not only a portrait of Donner the man (and he was a character!), but also his fascinating ... Read More
Rating:  - the king-chess pieces
This is a fun book to read about chess and some of the stories of the lives of grandmasters. A good read.
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