speaking of these, don't forget the brand new chess stars book


edit: maybe put those 3 next to each other in the bookshelf for a nice progression, your guests will think you are a nutcase

Presumably, KID = King's Indian Defence. I was in a charity bookstore recently and saw several books on it: old, new, brief, indepth. Somone either died or stopped playing the King's Indian Defence.

I love the OK titles, they remind of those books on transactional analysis eg 'I'm Ok, You're Ok'.

I like this one:



In the preface Rowson suspects his publisher may have misjudged the size of the market.

LOL.

When I used to work at Your Move, we also sold Go books.

Our favorite title was:

"All About Thickness"

I came across this about a week or so ago. It's title is positively Shakespearean.

Now that I finally figured how it is done, here is the image that should have gone with the book suggested in my OP:

FYP to make a kind of Rei Shahade (it's clear for whom I'm rooting in the US women's championship, isn't it? ).

I can't recall particularly funny titles of the Russian books I've read, but there were some weird plots.

In the 'Oh Chess!' book by Karpov and Gik, this exclamation was repeated in bold every time when the authors wanted to express awe (highlight an amazing move etc.); one more peculiarity is that, after each chapter, there was a section of funny chess anecdotes.

I also have a book with an unremarkable name 'I Play Chess' by Zak and Dlugolensky which, unfortunately, was released in early 1985 and doesn't mention Kasparov or the Polgars at all (and is the reason why I have a thing for girls resembling the then women's champion Maia Chiburdanidze ), but what's funny about it is that most of the chapters involve the characters of the popular Soviet fairy tale 'Buratino', with them being intertwined with world champions in ridiculous ways, e.g. it's claimed that Tortilla the Turtle's grandmother witnessed the famous Hewitt vs Steinitz game, Karabas Barabas became the Cuban chess vice-champion behind Capablanca and Basilio the Cat assisted Euwe in the prep for the 1935 championship match.

I heard Pawn Structure Chess is good