Friday, June 25, 2010

My Video Collection: Relax, Music

                                                              
















Water 1
Water 2
Grass 
Brain Concentration Music Training
Shane Walsh - Alone with My Thoughts
Fiona Joy Hawkins - Flight of the Albatross
Marc Enfroy - The Magic Garden
Oswaldo - Tema Amazonas
Playing For Change - Chanda Mama
Medwyn Goodall - Dolphin Companion
Kitaro - Heaven and Earth
Paul Collier - The Man Who Chose To Smile
Ryan Farish - Aras

       


        

        

             
                  
            
      


 
ABBA - Happy Hawaii
ABBA - Arrival
Mike Oldfield - Wonderful Land
Mireille Mathieu - Trois Milliards Gens sur Terre
Spread Joy
John Paul Young - Love Is In the Air
James Last - Va' Pensiero (Nabucco)
Daniel Diges - Algo Pequeñito
Maestro Jeyhoon - Memories
Mireille Mathieu - Der Pariser Tango

ABBA - Andante, Andante
ABBA - The Way Old Friends Do
CHESS - Merano
Murray Head (CHESS) - One Night in Bangkok 
The Blues Brothers - Shake A Tail Feather 
London Boys - Sweet Soul Music
   



         
         

    
    
Jill Johnson - Angel of the Morning
Jill Johnson - Oh, Vilken Härlig Dag
Jessica Folcker - Tell Me What You Like
Totta's Bluesband - Going down
Queen - We Will Rock You
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
Elmer Bernstein - The Magnificent Seven
André Rieu - Voices of Spring
Kevin Kern - Remembering the Light

          


       
        
              

          

          

New facets of famous chess positions, games and books

                      
TrueChess.com is a website dedicated to the discovery of new facets of famous chess positions, games and books.
  
Some of the pages at TrueChess.com
A close examination of famous books of analysis (For example "The Art of Attack in Chess")
Endgame corrections
      
            

Book: The Reassess Your Chess Workbook


  
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances, by Jeremy Silman.

This is the workbook to Jeremy Silman's book "How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course".
Steven Winer writes at ChessCafe.com about "How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course":
"...one does not need How to Reassess Your Chess to use the Workbook, since the early chapters of the Workbook summarize Silman’s thinking techniques".

Link (pdf document) to what Steven Winer, at ChessCafe.com, has to say about the book The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How to Master Chess Imbalances.




Silman books at Amazon:
The Workbook
How to Reassess Your Chess
The Amateur's Mind
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
    
        

Book: Secrets of Spectacular Chess

             
Secrets of Spectacular Chess
(2nd edition),
by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood.







Lubomir Kavalek writes about the book in The Washington Post
(June 30, 2008): 

Chess is magical and beautiful. Just read "Secrets of Spectacular Chess" by Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood (recently issued by Everyman Chess), and you realize that almost everything is possible on the chessboard. This excellent study on the aesthetics of chess is full of fascinating examples created by players and composers. The current edition is vastly enlarged from the 1995 original. Among the new material is the amazing 1999 game between Kasparov and Topalov in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.

Extracts from Secrets of Spectacular Chess
Link to the book at Amazon
    
       

Thursday, June 24, 2010


 












  
 
    
        

About me

I played my first chess game in December 1977 and was lucky to hold draw. I continued to play chess and joined a chess club in September 1978. I'm still enjoying playing chess. I like to do many other things than playing chess. Long walks, some jogging, cycling, reading books, listen to music, watch movies, writing and much more. Life is fun!