This video was slightly helpful. I say only slightly because not all of it pertained to me. For example the question about getting better than 900. I suppose the video will be even more helpful to me if I ask a question for the next installment.

I am more looking forward to the upcoming videos on your IM norm tournament. My favorite videos on this site are the ones where you go over your own games. Being able to hear what a master is thinking during a game while also being able to visually see it on a board with audio, arrows, and cirlces, etc. makes it even better. So just letting you know this is my favorite part about the site, so you might consider doing more shows on it than originally planned, or do it more often in the future.

This site is great, keep up the good work!

Hello,

Nice entertaining video

The following is a [little] note to explain my question. If you are not interested, simply skip the rest of the post .

Both parts of the question rely heavily on the fact that I cannot dedicate much time to studying chess. I have not yet competed in an official chess contest, but I intend to, just for the fun of it. (My estimated ELO is between 1600 and 1900, but the estimation relies on software such as chessmaster, and could be very well below that)

The first part of the question asked about general literature. I hoped that, in the competitive chess world, the players may drop a word about the description of the game in literature. Anyway, what I have read sofar and what I intend to read is listed below.
Stefan Zweig [Austria] The Royal Game -- impressed me the most
Arturo Pérez-Reverte [Spain] The Flanders Panel -- is readable, but some chess-related paragraphs are somewhat disappointing
Agatha Christie [UK] The Great Four -- is good in its genre, but only marginally addresses chess
Kathrine Neville [USA] The Eight -- not recommendable; long, inconsistent as fiction and inaccurate as history, even more so when it came to chess.
Vladimir Nabokov [RUS] The Luzhin Defense -- haven't read it yet
Bertina Henrichs [GER/FRA] The Woman Who Plays Chess -- haven't read it yet

In the second part of the question, I looked for a book that relates history to chess and to chess matches/games/combinations. I am now looking for Kasparov's series

Thanks for answering,
btw, Kornrade is read in German, k.o.r.n.(as in "corn").'r.a.(as "oo" in "flood").d.e.(as "e" in "end")

Kornrade,

If you're looking for another book that uses chess as a theme, you may want to check out The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter. I found it to be an interesting read.

Thank you for all your videos. I enjoy them all. Keep up the great work!!

Cheers,

Tim

Thanks so much Dennis for the response! I found the third game, your own, was particularly enlightening (the prophylaxis using piece maneuvers instead of pawn moves especially).

thanks so much, your time that you give is very much appreciated:)