But I think it is fair to say that, when it comes to the author of these lines, chess books and 2019, the term “Year of Sosonko” is quite appropriate. There is even one chess improvement book on the list. That is not to say there aren’t any others. And indeed, in 2019, I read his entire bibliography and have included even two of his books on the Best Chess Books 2019 list. Those of you who follow my social media accounts might have noticed a whole lot of posts devoted to the brilliant writer, grandmaster Genna Sosonko, who has written a number of books to the various players from the Soviet era 1.
On the other hand, as a firm loves of stories about chess players, chess culture and chess history, I found another type of chess book I really enjoy – biographical/memoir type of book where a (great) player (and writer) shares his recollections and stories from the chess tournament halls and encounters with other (great) chess players. I am not as motivated to work on my chess as I was in the pastĭue to everything mentioned above (and the last two factors, in particular), I haven’t read many pure chess improvement books.I realized it takes me much more time and effort to go through a chess book (especially an improvement book) if you want to read it properly, by going through the games and setting up the board.I also like reading about a variety of other topics.Since I read a lot about chess on the Internet and in the Magazines, I like to take a break from it in this manner.I don’t read as much as I would like to.I explained this discrepancy between the expectations and the final results to myself as follows: To be completely honest, this number is somewhat lower than I expected it to be at the beginning of the year. You can find a similar post about non-chess books on my other blog Popsychle. In this post, I will reflect on the chess books I read in 2019.
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