Tapio Huuhka wrote in message ...
No, they are not the same books, although the Capablanca books are
almost the same, the main difference being the games he annotates.

If you want a book by Nimzo, get the Praxis -- My System will probably
just confuse you. If you want something by Capa, get Chess Fundamentals,
or preferably, the Chess Machine CD by chesscentral.com, which contains
Chess Fundamentals and much more.

Forgot to mention that I'd pick up Tarrasch's Three hundred chess
games before anything by Nimzowitsch. And see for myself how
"dogmatic" he really was.


Other good books for a beginning chess book buyer would be Nunn's
Understanding chess move by move and McDonald's Chess: the art of
logical thinking.

And get yourself a decent endgame book or two or three ...