Reviews for Smart Chip from St. Petersburg: And Other Tales from a Bygone Chess Era

The average rating for Smart Chip from St. Petersburg: And Other Tales from a Bygone Chess Era based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-07 00:00:00 Aron Das Humans playing chess This is a great book for an age permeated with computer evaluation of human chess games. Computers will not share the love of chess like humans do. The people Genna Sosonko described were those who loved chess, lived and died sharing their love of the game. I've read other books by Sosonko and thought this would also mostly contain biographies, but there were some nice digressions on other topics, too. And the opening chapter on Smart Chip and the last one, Hein, are the best. Thanks to the author for another great book.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-06 00:00:00 Tony Hunter More of a personal games collection than an instructive text.