We are back with another bonus podcast edition of Chess Books Recaptured. This month I am joined by Jonathan of The Abysmal Depths of Chess Blog to discuss a classic book, Simple Chess, by GM Michael Stean. Simple Chess is an excellent positional primer which features succinct and helpful annotations for the club player. Over the past couple of months, Jonathan has been blogging about each of the 30 games in the book, so he knows the material inside and out, and I was very glad to have him share some highlights of what he has learned from studying Simple Chess so thoroughly. As always, we discussed improvement takeaways, favorite quotes and lessons distilled from this excellent book. You can get all of the details, timestamps and hyperlinks below.   Mentioned: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Perpetual Chess Episode 201 with FM Peter Giannatos, Perpetual Chess Episode 195 With GM Keith Arkell,  The Chess Dojo ranks: Classic Chess Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRETstfHyDE, Fred Wilson books  GM Anatoly Karpov, GM Wolfgang Uhlmann, GM Lajos Portisch, GM Samuel Reshevsky, GM Tigran Petrosian, GM Bobby Fischer Mentioned: Sicilian Najdorf by GM Michael Stean, GM Viktor Korchnoi , End Game: Kasparov vs. Short by Dominic Lawson, GM Ray Keene, William Hartston  Mentioned: Recap of Winning Chess Strategies with Neal Bruce,  Mastering Chess Strategy by GM Johan Hellsten, Link to Jonathan’s blog post about  Karpov-Westerinen 1974  Jonathan’s blog post about the game is here:https://theabysmaldepthsofchess.blogspot.com/2020/12/sc-week-73-karpov-westerinen-nice.html   Mentioned: Chessgames.com list of games from Simple Chess:https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1038489 The Passion Paradox,  Peak Performance, Chess Improvement: Its All in the Mindset  Hanging Pawns, Isolated Queen Pawn, Karpov Spassky 1975 https://www.chessable.com/chess-strategy-for-club-players/course/27755/ Mentioned: Fischer - Gadia, Unzicker - Fischer, Spassky-Fischer Game 5 1972, Andersson-Knaak, Vogt-Andersson, Recapping Reassess Your Chess with Todd Kennedy   Mentioned: Everyman Chess e-books, Fred Wilson, Martin Justesen Follow him on twitter here: https://twitter.com/Berlin_EndgameRead/Subscribe to his blog here: https://theabysmaldepthsofchess.blogspot.com/#1- White to move and drawWhite: Kc6, Ba4 Black: Kb1, Pb2Link To Position, Turn Engine On for Solution#2- White to move and winWhite: Kc4, Pc6Black: Kh2, Nd8Link to Position, Turn Engine on For Solution If you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, You can do so here:https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices