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die Moderne Schachpartie. Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch. Hans Hedewigs Nachfolger, Curt Ronniger. Leipzig 1924.
On its first appearance, in 1912, die Moderne Schachpartie , or "the Modern Game of Chess" as it might be translated, was a novelty, being a collection of the best of those master games played since the turn of the century, carefully annotated and organised by opening. Each succeeding edition up to the fourth and last in 1923 was updated with newer games, so that the book as we have it now contains 217 games from roughly the first two decades of the twentieth century. Since the games are organised by opening, the book can serve as an opening textbook of sorts, especially since Dr. Tarrasch was never shy about explaining which opening variations he considered good or bad, and why. Here, though, the age of the book limits its usefulness: although Spanish Games and Queen’s Gambits abound, the coverage of other openings is limited, in some cases non-existent. For instance, there are only three games with the Caro-Kann, only a dozen or so Sicilians, and of course no Benko Gambits, Kings Indians and such-like. Nevertheless, and despite changes in opening theory over the decades since it was last revised, die Moderne Schachpartie remains a first-rate guide to the double King's-pawn and double Queen's-pawn openings, and to "classical" chess in general.
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