Bookmap: The Game of Chess by Harry Golombek

Having expressed my intention to learn the game "properly", my dad kindly dug out what appears to be a classic of the game. To develop my understanding of the game properly, I needed to learn the notation quickly. Happily, this doesn't seem as taxing as I had feared.

Harry Golombek's name wasn't familiar to me. He was either slightly before my time or perhaps I read the wrong newspaper. The public face of chess to me in the 80s was Bill Hartson of Mastergame, though the show sadly went the way of Pot Black and One Man And His Dog.

Happily there are plenty of commented games available on YouTube.