Everyman Chess Books Pgn Free Download

[Ernest Babin]

I reached out to Forward Chess. Forward Chess sells Everyman Chess Books on their web site and their app works. They offered to give me access to my purchase if Everyman gives them permission to do so. I reached out to Everyman but never heard back.

So, I agree. It is very disappointing and rather crazy that we want to give them our money, but they can't be bothered to work out how to take it. Their customer support also leaves a lot to be desired.

Many thanks for the feedback here - and apologies from us at Everyman Chess. Firstly of course apologies to those on this thread and anyone else who may have experienced difficulties restoring their downloads.

Earlier in 2023 both Google and Apple made some updates to their APIs which caused this functionality in our app to become unreliable. Resolving this required considerable investment in further development to the Chess Viewer Apps to refactor our code. We completed this in August, so that restoring purchases should now be straightforward in either app, *provided* that the user account that you are authenticated with on your devices matches that with which your original purchases are made.

Please note it is possible (and preferable in our view) to buy your eBooks directly at everymanchess.com and then import to your app manually, or indeed any other Chess Viewing app which supports complex, large pgn files. There are also added benefits:

This is especially preferable to us because when users buy via the in-app store they are doing business with Apple/Google and so we do not have access to customer data which makes addressing any issues much harder, plus more recently we have found both are liable to make unpredictable changes causing issues outside of our immediate control (with regards in-app purchases).

Please note you can contact us via the website or directly to our info@ email address. We will respond and address any outstanding issues that arise. Many thanks for reading and we hope this clarifies and helps and that you continue to enjoy our chess interest and training content - now a large body of work built up over many decades.

Is anyone familiar with this app? I downloaded it a couple of years ago and bought a few books through their store to read on it. I've been having problems with the app, so, as is often recommended, I uninstalled it, with a view to redownloading it. It was then that I discovered the app had disappeared from the iOS store (in Japan, where I am based). Any ideas for how I can reobtain the books I have purchased?

Yes, they seem to be an honest bunch of people, who I am sure will deal in the same way with other customers with similar problems. It would be great, though, if they could be a bit more proactive about announcing changes with the apps and how they will affect people. The main attraction for me about books bought through the app was that they are real chess e-books with a board embedded inside the book.

It's a nice resource although I do like going through the moves by hand so I can understand it better. Of course, this takes a lot more time but I think it is worth it if you are able to understand the ideas

but this time who is the best publisher ? So far I can think of Batsford and Gambit. With Batsford I find them pretty expensive here $35 dollars onward ! And I am seeing more titles are coming out of the Gambit, they seem reasonable to read. What do you think ?

I think it's impossible to pick one "best" chess publisher out of Chess Informants, New In Chess, ChessBase, Dover, Batsford, Tartan etc etc. After all, the older classics tend to be published by Dover, Tartan and McKay while NIC, Informants etc have their own publishers.

I always look around for used books in good or better cond whenever possible over new copies at amazon or Barnes & Noble. There's actually a lot of "free" chess books out there, and some are legitimately free such as Dr Lasker's Common Sense In Chess and at least one of Capa's books (both in the public domain).

There are a lot of opening books I read that have long lines and try to analyze everything instead of focus on the important concepts. What books do this or something else that helps other than long lines for every other move?

That's absolutely true, though they're not books that go very deep into the variations. That is good enough for people who are smart, but if you like openings, the ''move by move'' series are also very nice. Covers all the lines and involves the reader. If you go for the maximum content then the books like ''Play the French,'' also from John Watson and Everyman chess are a better choice. It's good enough concept wise but it's also packed with lines. You can look up everything but you're not going to remember all that. From the way you worded it that is probably not what you want though.

I have read Everyman chess's work and I think the content is fine, but it needs a complete reconstruction to be useful. It is a long compare and contrast of the two variations if not six and if you are not following every line you are unable to get the main points they are trying to convey.

The Dangerous Weapons production seems like it might be what I am looking for. I had a book from them back when I had books but college was too demanding. I just looked at their production again online and found it was what I was looking for. The mastering the openings does offer another route. I just wanted to see what people in the chess realm thought and am open to more feedback.

If you don't want to study all the lines but still want to know the concepts of ONE opening that is not in Mastering the chess openings, you're better off with the ''Starting out'' series from Everyman. Lots of text, a few sample games of every opening and you're good to go.

... If you go for the maximum content then the books like ''Play the French,'' also from John Watson and Everyman chess are a better choice. It's good enough concept wise but it's also packed with lines. You can look up everything but you're not going to remember all that. From the way you worded it that is probably not what you want though.

If anyone has purchased one of these e-books, can you chime in on how good/bad the ebook format was? I could see how it isn't so good if it loses a lot of the key formatting that makes it lucid on paper, but if there's not much lost, sounds like it would be a no-brainer win to purchase the ebook over the paper version.

The content is excellent as expected, but I gotta hand it to Everyman chess for being the only chess publisher out there to have the courage to sell their books in nonproprietary (pgn) format without requiring some sort of custom reader for it.

It saves hours and hours of move entry time, and is so convenient that I'm probably going to even re-buy some books covering French and Sicilan lines that I already have a video review of just because it saves so much time to enter the darn moves.

I only wish that Everyman chess sold more books outside of openings and game collections. In particular, they're really lacking in the endgame training dept, but if they come out with some good ones there, I'm def buying them.

I have purchased several Everyman Chess books. They sell all versions for one price. I can read my books in Chessbase, in my Kindle app, or in one of the chess ereader apps on my iPhone that supports pgn. Depending on what else I am doing, and which computer or device I am using, as well as its operating system, I have used all the versions. Anytime a book is available from them, I will buy it there. I used to like ForwardChess, since it had a built in Chess engine in the iPhone/iPad app, but now I am using a Windows laptop/tablet and I prefer to read the books in Chessbase--where I have more processor power for computer analysis and better analysis engines.

i prefer e'books too. it amazes me how many people seem to buy one after another after another? i mean, it took me more than 2 months to finish jst one! the first time thru the book i jst played thru main variations... then i went thru again playing the other lines... and it usually takes a third time thru the e'book (4 me anywayz) to play main lines with variations to see how they all fit together. i wonder how many people actually read a book all the way thru B4 buying an other one? jst curious . . .

You can email either the pgn file or the Kindle (prc) file to yourself, then open the mail on your iPad and click on the attachment. If it is a ".prc" file, it will automatically ask if you want to open it with a list of apps. Pick Kindle. Similarly, with the pgn file, you can open that with almost any of the chess programs available, my favorite is the Chessbase app, because it supports multiple lines and has an embedded engine. The app tChess Pro also works for opening pgn files.

I also use Chess PGN Master on my Android tablet - it's excellent. It also works fine in combination with Forward Chess app as you can share position from a book and open it in Chess PGN Master where you can play it against an engine or just analyse.

I've heard of ForwardChess and saw someone mention eplusbooks. Which is best and is there any I am missing? Any input appreciated. Right now I find normal books a bit of a hassle since they go into a lot of obscure lines and to go through them with a chess set just feels so unpractical.

Gambit Publications also has its own app but not as great as Forward Chess. Considering Dr Nunn is a King of Chess Puzzles and they have some really good titles, I am surprised they don't have a Puzzle Mode or Spaced repetition feature on their app.

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