Kostya Shows His Favorite Chess Books & Stream Setup | Meet the Dojo
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- IM Kostya Kavutskiy presents his current streaming setup, desk, and famous bookshelf full of chess books.
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Good stuff! Looking forward to more instructional videos, and of course the book reviews.
Kostya is quite a cool and charming guy! Besides being a very good and learned coach!
Nice tour, thanks Kostya. My chess collection is much smaller, but I too have some books that I haven't gotten around to reading.
I've never seen a mini-vac before. That Kramnik book looks boss!
Congrats on the new place and thanks for sharing. P.S. Love that chessboard. Shopping for one myself.
Thanks!
Awesome collection. Thanks for the tour!
So nice to see the human side of the stream!
I hope David and Jesse will do the same in the future! I think what I love the most in chess is chess books :D Good luck with the move and merry christmas!
Thank you, an honor to have you here!
omg it'd be so cool to see Jesse's set up.
Can't wait to see your new space, good luck! If I were doing a tour, I'd be like, "Okay, I have this book I've never read, also this book I've not touched, I read a page or two of this one, I MAYBE read this one cover to cover years ago..." 🤣
Hahaha classic
I grew up on descriptive notation so I was exposed to a "chess diet" of old books. I read a lot of books by Max Euwe such as ChessMaster versus Grandmaster; Euwe was a great openings analyst. He analysed the Muzio gambit and concluded that with best play it should be a draw. Some of the opening analysis is now a little dated; ideas like Nd5 against the..Bb4 line in the reverse Sicilian/English were not liked then but are popular now. Once I borrowed a book of Emanuel Lasker's London chess lectures from a chess friend. That was good. On my shelf right now, I will look...
- Basic Chess Endings by Fine. As a correspondence chess player thats kind of a bible lol.
- Technique in Chess by Gerald Abrahams
- Chess fundamentals by Capablanca
- The Mammoth Book of the world's greatest chess games, annotated by Burgess, Nunn and Emms, a little outdated as it was before Carlsen, but still probably my favourite chess book of all time. Superb annotation and I think a player of any level, even GM, would learn a lot from it. Especially the modern games.
- Tactical Chess Endings by Nunn. Anyone who says that endings are boring, read this first!
- some classic books by Chernev/Reinfeld such as Winning Chess. Always good.
- Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis. This is probably my least liked book. I don't warm to his approach of "priyomes" as building blocks. Maybe that is just my reaction.
Weirdest chess book experience. Once I was in a second hand bookshop and I bought a book that had nothing to do with chess. When I got home I found in the book pages of Alekhine chess annotations! Someone had cut up an Alekhine book [no idea which] and had left its pages inside! I learnt a bit! THat is my biggest missing book - I don't have an Alekhine book on my shelf.
Huge collection.
Would love to see the entire collection. One by one. And your thoughts on each book.
That would take a while!
Nice collection. I have a couple of the same books. If I wanted more chess books, I would think about getting either that Botvinnik book or the Kraminik book; I think I could really learn from their annotations.
“A little outdated, a couple years old”….lol
You can feel (and see !) the weight of chess knowledge on the shelves !
Poor Jesse. No Lisa in Kostya’s bookcase.
It's in my other bookshelf!
Just discovered this amazing channel few days ago, thanks for your recommendations.
I really like the chessboard, is it possible to order it somewhere ?
House of Staunton!
thanks for reconmmending johan hellsten book, mastering chess opening just received today
Interesting. Thanks for posting
Hi. You seem to have the Boris Gelfand books. What do you think of them , particular the very first volume, "Positional decision making", from 20016(?). Is it a "must read" book? If so, what ideal ELO range will be benefit? My ELO is probably between 1700-1900, I am guessing it, based on me playing against Stockfish 12 on home PC. Is it too low to read Gelfand book? I read Nunn book on middle games and Lipnitsky and Romanovsky as well as My System as the first one, all those were fine to comprehend. So I am looking for next positional middle-games book to study to try for ELO 2000-2100. Thank you!
Hey Yuri! The Gelfand books have a lot of deep analysis but the notes are quite instructive. It may be difficult for your current level but if the other books were OK for you then you might be ready! There is a ton of writing and good advice in there, so good luck!
@@ChessDojo thank you! I just found GM Konstantin Sakaev review on these books, done just a few months ago, he said they was best aimed at Russian 1-category to candidate master level, which I am guessing is ELO 2000-2200+ range.
Bottom row, yellow and green is the one book that you do not mention. It looks a bit like 'Winning Pawn Structures' by Alexander Baburin which is a book I recommend in case you do not have it. It mainly looks at isolated Queen's Pawn positions.
Kostya, thanks for showing us your setup; very cool!
Chess question: how do you know when an outpost is really an outpost? Like if both sides only have knights, is there a rule of thumb covered somewhere that tells you in what situation you'll actually be able to make use of a knight outpost, or does it just come down to calculation?
Hey Scott! I guess your question is how do you know if an outpost is useful? Generally knights like to be in the center, but they also like targets, so if your knight can attack some important squares or pawns, it's a good outpost, if not, then might not be so useful right now.
Knights are also helped by heavy pieces, an outpost in a knight endgame might not mean that much, but with rooks or queens on the board, the security of the knight (since no pawns can attack it), is quite important. Hope that helps!
@@ChessDojo Thanks Kostya, hope your move is smooth!
It's also worth mentioning that knight outposts can also occur in endgames and can be extremely powerful; I have had endgames where I have been up the exchange rook for knight but the opposing knight is an "octopus knight" outpost and often you have to give the exchange back to try to win or draw because the knight creates so many fork threats.
Pffft! The two Tal books you blow off, presumably his autobiography and record of the 1960 match, are among the best chess books in the universe! The other Dojo guys call you "The Millennial" and now I know why! ;) I will take your advice re. the Botvinnik book and look for it. Thank you!
Haha I didn't blow them off! I've read Tal - Botvinnik 1960!
Nice video! It makes me wonder how much time you spend reading chess books/how often do you read.
It used to be a lot more, but not that much. I would choose one book and read it about 45 min to an hour per day. You could finish several high quality books a year at this pace!
@@ChessDojo Thanks for the answer!
That’s a beautiful chess set! May I ask the name and where I might find one like it?
Got it from House of Staunton
@@ChessDojo Hi, thanks for the source. But Could you specify the name of the chess pieces, please?
Hey Kostya! Good stuff. Pack carefully when you move!
haha thanks!
Hi Kostya, any specific lines in Modernized that you recommend avoiding nowadays? I'm finally getting around to preparing a white repertoire against the Sicilian and your book seems like a fantastic starting point.
Hm there may have been some updates in the Najdorf and Dragon but the repertoire was built to last on ideas rather than specific theory
@@ChessDojo Thanks! I love how you chose lines that balance being strong objectively with reaching positions that are straightforward for white to play and often difficult for black to play. It's so rare to find a repertoire book that's motivated by practical chances and middlegame understanding.
If you were to publish the book today would you still recommend the Adams Attack against the Najdorf and the 9.0-0-0 Yugoslav against the Dragon, or has the theory changed enough that you would recommend fundamentally different responses to those variations?
In the Dragon I would consider 10
exd5 over Qe1, as it seems safer these days!
Really enjoyed watching this Kostya learnt so much thank you 😄✌️
Also one request please do book reviews
Coming!
Good library. If I knew 5% of my chess library I would have a 2700 ELO (more than 1.000 books). Now I see myself as a collector. Time and age matter.
What chess set do you have? Luv your videos btw!
House of Staunton, thanks!
I didn't expect you to be this tall lmao
Nice Kostya! Good luck with the house move! I have many of the same books as you, but I haven't read as many!!! 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks!
thanks!!!
On the bottom shelf there is a book that seems to be the "Polgar Brick".
You skipped the book I most wanted you to discuss. SuperSystem! And what other poker books you have.
Haha, that's the only one I have :) not much of a poker player just got it because it's considered a classic
What book for just openings?
Great collection.
wow great video
Is that Winning Pawn structures on your shelf?
Yep!
Wow,780 pages for Boris Zlotniks middlegame manual
Not quite!
Show me the Tal!
Read the Tal life and games book as soon as possible. Best. Chess. Book. Ever.
Haha will do :)
Cool!
why tf your intro have the board rotated wrong, I was instantly triggered lmao
What do you mean?
@@ChessDojo He means the intro animation has the white square on A1
tanks interesting
I spy a poker book… :-)
Nice
I wonder if masters need chess board while reading chess books🙄
Not always but I prefer it
Kewl!
all of them look new, never opened
Huh?