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300 games by the greatest player of all time: 54 against such masters as Anderssen, Harrwitz, Mongredien, Bird, Paulsen, and others; 52 of the best blindfold games; 52 games at odds; and 142 in consultation, informally. Detailed annotations of games by such expert analysts as Sergeant, Steinitz, Anderssen, and Morphy himself.
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better books around.......2002-03-22
the main issue i take with this book is the poor annotation done. He'll make cryptic comments like "he cannot afford to do so and so move" at a critcal point in the game and not explain himself. What he means isn't self-explanitory either. As far as books annotating games go I'd recommend Alekhines best games of chess between the 1920's and 1940's (or whatever the title is). Much better book with better games too (in my humble opinion.
Descriptive notation , impossible to read !!!.......2001-12-09
Hi , the book is great but it is written in
descriptive notation and that makes the book itself
very awkward . Descriptive notation is no more used since
decades . Some one should rewrite the book in algebric notation.
Otherwise the book were great , I gave 4 stars
instead of 5 only for that reason.
Morphy - No better player to learn from!.......2001-07-03
Before we go any further, I want you to know I am a Chess Master and I teach chess for a living.
All my students who have purchased this book have loved it.
All the great teachers of the game (GM L. Evans, SM Ken Smith, IM Silman, GM Soltis, GM Alburt; etc.) say you must FIRST master tactics before you can do anything else. This is the MANDATORY first step in the game of chess.
The best way to learn and master TACTICS is to study the OPEN GAMES. In my own opinion, there is no better way to do this than to study the games of Paul Morphy very carefully. (I personally believe Morphy was - easily - the greatest chess player who ever lived. See my web page on "The Greatest Chess Players" for more details.)
The games in this book are well written and easily understood by any class of player. The author did a great job here, and this probably remains the best book - dollar for dollar - on Morphy.
And in case you think these moves are easy to find, I once tested some of these moves on a GM ... who was approximately 18 months away from winning the U.S. Championship ... and he failed to find some of the moves that Morphy found quickly and easily!
The story in here is good, the games are great. Paul Morphy's games are the best vehicle for mastering the basics of chess. They are also very beautiful.
If you buy this book AND play through a few of the games - I personally guarantee you will not be disappointed with it. (And if you are, you can sell it on e-bay for almost what you paid for it.)
Come on! What else do I have to say? I make all my students study Morphy. I promise you will get better. GET THIS BOOK!!
Another Great Low-Priced Classic From Dover.......1998-01-02
The author assembled 300 of Morphy's games, more than enough for the reader to form a solid opinion on this extraordinary player. I can say without hesitation that if you are not charmed by his games, there is very little chance that you will ever be much of a chessplayer.
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Clear and Concise.......2005-11-04
Mr. Del Rosario is an expert in the subject of teaching chess. I have first-hand knowledge of this and vouch for his abilities. This book is clear, very well designed, and he gets right to the point. Definitely worth a place in the library of chess players of all levels.
Economy & Lucidity a la Morphy.......2004-12-15
Nineteenth century American prodigy Paul Morphy never wrote anything about how to play chess, but his games are sparkling examples of classical chess principles at work. He had a talent for discovering magical moves that wound his opponents up in knots -- check, check, and mate out of nowhere. How did he do it? Everyone agrees that it was his insight into principles and his tactical genius that allowed him to dominate the greatest masters of Europe in his day. So, a book of Morphy's games would be entertaining and inspiring. But Frisco del Rosario has done more than compile brilliancies from Morphy's games -- he uses carefully selected games as case studies to illustrate principles enunciated by chess writers such as Fine, Horowitz, and Purdy. On the one hand, you have a principle, such as "Develop with threats" and on the other you have an application, "Morphy vs. Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard." The back and forth between principle and illustrations is well-choreographed and told in a lean and lucid manner. The beauty of this approach is del Rosario's choice of games to illustrate the principles -- they are all crystal clear. The cumulative wisdom of the principles themselves form a unified approach to good chess. Very helpful are del Rosario's explanations of tactical sidelights that informed the decisions of Morphy and his opponents. Some authors go overboard on this and leave you mired in detail. Not in this book. The text, like the games of Morphy, moves quickly. Read it and play through the examples for enjoyment, and you'll feel the effects next time you're faced with a decision over the board.
A First Book of Morphy.......2004-11-08
It is a great book. It really helps you understand the games it shows you. It also demonstrates the 30 rules of Chess. These rules are what chess players have discovered in over a centry.
This is THE must have book.......2004-10-19
This book is incredible. I have bought (and sold!) many different chess books but this is the first that has had a dramatic impact on my game.
I have been to many of the author's lectures that were based on this book. It was how I was able to rediscover my game and got me back to the core principles of how to win a game (vs. memorizing the 20 variations to the xyz defense to the abc attack). It made chess fun again and had me winning more games.
The book is very readable and well thought out. It is also very powerful - you can spend a little time with it and still have a solid improvement - or you can spend a lot more time and be amazed at how much it can do for your game and your perspective on chess.
With regard to applicability, it has a wide range. I am using it with my young kids and know a bunch of expert players who love it also.
I can't recommend it highly enough.
Book Description
Book about the best chess player of the nineteenth century analyzes his games and positions in depth, discusses other players of the period (Adolph Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz), Morphy's rare blunders and omissions, as well as selected endgames and openings. Diagrams.15 halftones.
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Shibut's excellent guide to Morphy!.......2004-10-09
Thanks to a recent gift from two of my Internet students, I just received this book a few days ago. (Thanks guys!) However, I did not need much introduction to this book, as I already owned the original hard-back edition as well.
Paul Morphy was one of the greatest players who ever lived, statistically he dominated his generation in a fashion that Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov cannot touch.
This is a great book, probably one of the most carefully written books on Morphy that you will find. It has OVER 400 games played by Morphy. All of his serious tournament and match games, as well as other games as well. (Games at odds, simultaneous games, blindfold games, etc.)
Many of the games are carefully annotated, the author did a wonderful job here. Many of the mistakes that were made in earlier books are caught and corrected.
This is NOT the ultimate biography on Morphy, it concentrates almost exclusively on Morphy's chess. (Chapters on Morphy's Openings, Morphy's Endings, etc.) And while I do not agree with every conclusion that the author reached, I do think that this is a LAND-MARK book ... and one that fully deserved to be reprinted.
A few flaws, there are some obvious typo's in here. The diagrams in the Dover edition are not as clear as in the original hard-back book. Some of the pages have a grainy feel to them, a few pages in my book were not cut correctly and are slightly skewed.
Overall, I give this book 4 stars. If you want to get better, you HAVE to study Morphy's tactics. This is the book to do it with. I highly recommend this book, despite the publisher's flaws. (All the older books on Morphy were in English Standard Descriptive Notation, this is one of the only books on Morphy in algebraic.)
Nothing Special.......2003-12-09
The quality of the writing is mediocre at best, and the author is clearly underqualified to do in-depth analysis of Morphy's games. The book is overpriced. Chris Ward's book may not be the last word on Morphy, but Ward's a better player and annotator than Shibut, and he has all the same games. Certainly the games are great, but Shibut adds little of interest to Morphy's games or to the story of his life.
Unless money is no object, you really need to think twice when considering the purchase of a high-priced book by an unknown player.
Fascinating study of Morphy's play.......2003-07-27
This book deserves to be re-printed. It's simply fascinating. Did Morphy really anticipate Steinitz? Did masters understand the "principle of early development" even before Morphy? Shibut has many interesting things to say about the evolution of chess, with reference to games and history for support. It's a fairly scholarly work, but not a dry one. I think a club-level chess player could learn a bit about chess from this book, while enjoying the lessons of history.
The meat of the book lies in the chapters comparing Morphy to a)Anderssen and the romantics, b)Steinitz, c)Barnes, who scored more points off him than anyone, and d)modern players (via Reti's assessments). Here you will find dozens of Morphy games with an unusual sort of annotation. Shibut does not give us many lines of variations, though he does sometimes point out tactical shots. More often, he assesses the postions qualitatively, showing us the sorts of plans that Morphy used. He also includes a great many references to the specific ideas and refutations of other authors, often pointing out THEIR mistakes. All of this gives you a sense that Morphy was both far ahead of his time in opening theory, and competitive with anyone alive today tactically.
The games in these chapters are (mainly) real struggles, rather than the dashing brilliancies we are used to seeing from Morphy. Shibut explains, "The effect of such presentations in countless beginner's texts has been to reduce Morphy's games to a collection of fables. Their moral is understood to be something about developing pieces, or the evils of chasing pawns in the opening. Whatever the pedagogical value of such portrayals, the games, so presented, can't help but appear shallow compared to modern grandmaster warfare." Shibut wants to show us what Morphy was really capable of when tested.
Then there is a fun chapter on Morphy's blunders, showing him to be fallible afterall. And there are examinations of his opening and endgame knowledge. After that comes a complete compilation, hundreds of complete (but completely un-annotated) Morphy games. This might be the most useless part of the book, since you could get at least sparse annotation from Sargeant.
One thing this book is great for is the section on games at odds. It amounts to a treatise on how to play such games, analyzing various opening strategies. If you want to play an odds game (eg remove the f-pawn before the game) against a much weaker opponent, I suggest that you take a look.
There are essays on Morphy by Steinitz, Znosko-Borovsky, and Alekhine. And finally, Shibut provides several indices: Morphy's openings, his opponents, and games not involving Morphy. However, there is no subject index, nor endnotes on sources.
After reading this book, I began to wonder how Morphy would fare against Fischer in a King's Gambit, each at their peak. Clearly, his chess was far deeper than I'd imagined.
One drawback: Although the notation is algebraic, it lacks capture (x) and check (+) symbols. This makes it very difficult to follow without a board.
By far the best book ever written on the great Paul Morphy........1999-09-28
Finally a book that sets the record straight and puts Morphy in the proper context. If you are sick of chess anthologies that provide one or two of Morphy's skittles games and try to pass this off as indicative of the style and quality of 19th century chess, you are going to love this book. Mr. Shibut totally destroys the popular misconception that Morphy was the "missing link" between Anderssen and Steinitz. The concept that Wilhelm Steinitz enlightened the chess world with new and revolutionary ideas of positional play is shown to be utter nonsense. By analyzing Morphy's serious games as well as those of other great 19th century masters Mr. Shibut does a fine job of showing that Steinitz's "theories" offered little that was new to the understanding of chess at the time. The main theme of this book is that Morphy's strength was not due to some unique understanding of the game that was later articulated to the world by Wilhelm Steinitz. Paul Morphy was simply the best chess player of the 19th century. No more no less. I highly recommend this book to any serious student of the game.
Book Description
In 1857, a soft-spoken genius from New Orleans burst upon the chess scene. Paul Morphy dazzled the chess world with breathtaking combinations that seemed to arise from thin air. In his brief chess career, he was universally recognized as the best in the world. International grandmaster Valeri Beim takes a close look at the play of the mid-19th century champion, putting his games under a modern, 21st-century analytical microscope. The result is a fresh and instructive look at the strategy and tactics of the American legend, and their relevance to the modern approach to the royal game.
It is a very interesting book and may well change the reader's preconceived ideas in the same way. Game annotations are the main component but there is also background information on Morphy. -- John Saunders, British Chess Magazine, October 2005
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Morphy's Games of Chess (Btb Chess Classics)
Johann Lowenthal
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Other Books.......2007-09-03
Morphy's Games of Chess
by Johann Lowenthal is a study of the innovative and unpredictable chess master's methods, and a lot of his famous games from tournaments or other competitions.
This is definitely a chess book that is worth a look, and also interesting for students of Morphy himself.
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American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer
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Taking critical openings as his standpoint - the Ruy Lopez - Queen?s Gambit - English Opening and King?s Gambit - König shows how chess technique advanced and became more sophisticated from the days of Morphy to the time of Botwinnik. Painstaking research,a joy to read and also a valuable instructional manual for those who wish to improve, broaden and hone their strategic skills.
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Synopsis.......2007-07-09
Taking critical openings as his standpoint - the Ruy Lopez - Queen's Gambit - English Opening and King's Gambit - König shows how chess technique advanced and became more sophisticated from the days of Morphy to the time of Botvinnik. This is a book with much painstaking research, both a joy to read and also a valuable instructional manual for those who wish to improve, broaden and hone their strategic skills. Imre König was one of the most travelled of international masters, and represented Hungary,Yugoslavia, England and the USA. His best result was second prize at Hastings 1948/49 - behind Rossolimo but ahead of fellow Hardinge Simpole author Bob Wade.
review of chess technique.......2002-12-02
the author an international master selects the most important openings and shows how chess has developed by analysing them. the conclusion that the queens gambit and ruy lopez are crucial was vindicated by the most recent world championship match between kasparov and kramnik.
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"Including an Historical Account of Clubs, Biographical Sketches of Famous Players, and Various Information and Anecdote Relating to the Noble Game of Chess." 5x7.5", vi+203 pp. + 5 pp. pub. ads.
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Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel®. In this sense, this is a finance "cookbook," providing recipes with lists of ingredients and instructions.
Areas covered include computation of corporate finance problems, standard portfolio problems, option pricing and applications, and duration and immunization. The second edition contains six new chapters covering financial calculations, cost of capital, value at risk (VaR), real options, early exercise boundaries, and term structure modeling. A new technical chapter contains a potpourri of tips for using Excel®.
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Excelent book.......2007-09-24
Is an excelent book to learn and undertand how to creat financial models in excel.
I strongly recomend it.
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I thought I did a review for this book immediately when I received it! It was really good! It's like the best textbook!.......2007-09-16
Beninnga states things very clearly.
And the sophistication is great.
No matter what level you are in, it's good for you.
And these knowledge are really useful in real world!
I mean,I'm really gonna keep this book for myself after I finish the degree.
Strongly recommended to practitioner.......2007-09-03
The book has great practical value. It also applies to those who wish to implement financial models in other computing environment than Excel.
Good Cookbook.......2007-08-23
Very good on giving an introduction on many modeling techniques.
Exceptionally recommended for the new babe.
Excellent book.......2007-07-19
All students of finance must have one, It's great, If I'd have had it when I was student oh, I'd save a lot of time, now I'm teacher of finance and I recomend all my students to buy it.
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This book teaches readers how to build financial models with step-by-step instructions in Excel.
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For financial planners and analysts.
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excel modeling.......2006-02-22
I have returned this book more than 2 weeks ago but I have not seen credit on my credit card yet and sent an email while ago, and ask when I will get refunded but nobody really gave me any clear answer.
Missing files.......2005-06-02
The "Live In-class Problems" that are halfway done are only available to instructors. This book can be fully utilized if it is used by a instructor in the class, otherwise, a self learner would not have an access to the required files needed to do the end of chapter exercises.
2nd Edition of Spreadsheet Modeling in Corp Finance.......2004-11-16
This is the 2nd edition of the "Spreadsheet Modeling in Corp Finance" -learn from my mistake and don't buy the old version.
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