Checkmate (Noughts and Crosses, 3)

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Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess is a giant book that’s great for intermediate players. The information is clearly explained and laid out while also being easy to digest. Books For Advanced Players (Above 1800) This book seemed vaguely familiar when I read it? But if I have read it before, I'd completely forgotten everything that happened in it. Which says volumes about how thrilling a story it was... Overall this book was fine and even enjoyable sometimes. I liked how Ali tried to step out of her usual "women in stem" books and tried something different. You might love this more than me if you are able to ignore all the Gen Z refrences and all the never ending chess tournaments. Woah looks like Ali has broke the mould and it’s looking good! It’s giving The Queens Gambit and I love it!

Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual written by Mark Dvoretsky, it was immediately recognized by Chess masters as one of the best endgame books ever published when it first came out in 2003. Even one of the best Grandmasters ever in history of Chess has a forward in the fifth edition saying, “…an absolute must for every Chess professional”. If you decide to only get a few books, these would be the best ones to get. They are tailored to provide a ton of information on one large category of Chess like openings or the important information for a large number of topics. The box method involves closing your opponent into a smaller and smaller imaginary box on the board. Secondly, I agree that the pop culture references were a little too much. I don't think people speak like that, or if they do it’s not so forced. Like, I get the Timothèe Chalamet’s posters but why bring Taylor Swift when speaking about paparazzi? In modern Persian, the word mate depicts a person who is frozen, open-mouthed, staring, confused and unresponsive. The words "stupefied" or "stunned" bear close correlation. So a possible alternative would be to interpret mate as "unable to respond". A king being in mate (shah-mat) then means a king is unable to respond, which would correspond to there being no response that a player's king can make to the opponent's final move. This interpretation is much closer to the original intent of the game being not to kill a king but to leave him with no viable response other than surrender, which better matches the origin story detailed in the Shahnameh.

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Modern Chess Strategy, written by Ludek Pachman is one of the top books in chess. Books For Players Below 800 i don’t even like chess but now i wanna play (to fall in love with my tall, dark, and handsome rival) 🫣 He leans toward me over the table, dark eyes earnest, stars traveling on his skin. “Do you know how incredible you are?”

This series is drastically deteriorating. It's not that the story is that bad - on the contrary the story and the layout of jumping through the timeline kept me intrigued - but that I really did not like the writing. Listen, was it perfect? No. Did this book have too many Gen Z references, including TikTok, OnlyFans, Riverdale, AO3, Discord, and some people I don't want to hear about in my romance books, like Jeff Bezos, Timothée Chalamet and Cole Sprouse? Yes. Especially at the beginning, when I thought I would literally put this book down because of this. Didn't I particularly like the heroine? Also yes. Despite loving the initial dynamic between these two, I do have to say that I would have loved to see more depth and development in their relationship. I thought it was very endearing that Sawyer fell in love with Mallory’s chess game first, but I did want to see why his feelings changed beyond that eventually. I don’t think we really got that, which is a shame. I mean, chess is fun and all, but I think you need more than just that to create a functional and meaningful relationship. But hey, maybe I just don’t get it because I’m not smart enough to have chess orgasms or whatever. This is an original, intelligent, perceptive and though-provoking series of books – and whilst squarely aimed at the Young Adult market, it clearly transcends the restrictive boundaries of that genre.why not add in more than science? sprinkle some computor coders, they deserve a love story because coding is hard, add some teachnology, people discovering ai, mathematics is always fun (said no one but me ever) that would always be so fun to look at. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkiller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. CALLUM'S REAL LETTER WAS THE CUTEST THING! I knew for obvious reasons that the content of the first one was lies. I grew so attached to Callum's character in the first book just to have him ripped out from under us but when his real letter was revealed, to see it written under Callum's perspective as a header, two books later following his death was so hearbreaking but beautiful at the same time! All the feels.