The Sorcerer's Apprentice (40 Recommendations for the Novice, 40 Combinations with Explanations, 50 Games with Comments, 60 Games

In this modern chess classic David Bronstein, one of the greatest chess artists of all time, shares his insights in his wonderful games - 237 of them played between 1938 and 1996, a career spanning 58 years. Bronstein was famous for the joy he derived from teaching the game and this spirit permeates his writings. His explanations and analyses are invariably lively and easy to understand for players of all levels who want to improve their chess. David Bronstein's achievements and his legendary creativity have ensured him a unique position in chess history. He drew a match for the World Championship, won Soviet Championship twice and took first place in numerous international tournaments. This revised and expanded edition, published two years after Bronstein passed away, contains a lot of new material and two moving In Memoriams, one by Bronstein's widow Tatiana Boleslavskaya and one by his co-author and friend Tom Fürstenberg. Furthermore, 32 pages of unique photographs have been included, as well as extensive new articles by Bronstein himself. This unconventional book is a fitting homage to one of the eternal chess greats, fascinating and rich in ideas, and written with contagious enthusiasm.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (40 Recommendations for the Novice, 40 Combinations with Explanations, 50 Games with Comments, 60 Games

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Power Chess With Pieces: The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights

In contrast to the opening or the endgame, the middlegame seems to offer little in the way of concrete starting-points for methodical study. Former world championship candidate Jan Timman deals, on the basis of countless examples encountered in his rich chess career, with themes like ?strong knight against bishop? and 'the dominant bishop pair?. How is one to proceed when one emerges from the opening with a strong knight and one?s opponent is stuck with a bad bishop? And is the bishop pair really as strong as they say? With his lucid style and practical approach, Jan Timman follows in the footsteps of his teachers Max Euwe and Mikhail Botvinnik.

Power Chess With Pieces: The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights

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Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1d4 (Everyman Chess)

International Master and renowned openings theoretician Richard Palliser presents a complete repertoire for Black against queen's pawn openings based on the dynamic and very much underrated Black Knights Tango.

Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1d4 (Everyman Chess)

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Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods

How did Jonathan Hawkins manage to go from being an average tournament competitor to a player on the brink of clinching the Grandmaster title?The secret was knowing what to study and how to learn as efficiently as possible. Focusing his attention firmly on the endgame, Jonathan devised a number of building blocks and identified a number of very important areas of study. The result of his hard work was a meteoric rise through the ranks, as he became firmly established as a prominent GM killer on the English tournament circuit.These pages reveal the secrets of his notebooks for the first time. IM Hawkins presents special material aimed to help you become a much better practical player, one armed with a deeper understanding of key aspects of chess.A careful study of the lessons presented in this book should enable the chess student to gain significant improvement.

Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods

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Modern Ideas in Chess

Modern Ideas in Chess is a series of 45 essays dealing with the evolution of the game, its leading players, their ideas and contributions to their respective periods.The chronology starts in the Romantic era of Anderssen and Morphy, continues through the Classical School of Steinitz, Tarrasch, Lasker, and runs to the dawn of the Hypermodern Revolution; the 70-year stretch from 1852 to 1922.Working in small chunks Réti had to be selective in what he extracted from each player and period. Plus the individual elements all had to tie in with the larger canvass Réti was painting for his readers.You don't have to get too far into the book to realize that Réti was a creative artist using the tension of chess ideas to reflect the larger intellectual struggle of mankind.How does Réti do it? A solid chess foundation obviously helps, also keen observation of the human experience coupled with a powerful command of language. Together these serve up indelible images that stick in the mind of the reader and lift this work far above the ordinary.Modern Ideas in Chess is one of the rare books that transcends the time frame in which it was written. It stands on its own, timeless, one of the true classics in the literature of the game.Popular author Bruce Alberston has converted the older descriptive notation to modern algebraic and added many diagrams to produce an outstanding modern 21st Century Edition of this timeless classic.

Modern Ideas in Chess

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The Chess Companion: A Merry Collection of Tales of Chess and It's Players, Together with a Cornucopia of Games, Problems,

The Chess Companion: A Merry Collection of Tales of Chess and It's Players, Together with a Cornucopia of Games, Problems,

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Secretos de la inversion de jugadas en ajedrez / Transpo Tricks in Chess: Explore los trucos y sutilezas del orden de jugadas en

Consagrado por entero a los trucos de transposición en las aperturas, el libro explica qué son y por qué son tan valiosas, además de sus ventajas e inconvenientes.

Secretos de la inversion de jugadas en ajedrez / Transpo Tricks in Chess: Explore los trucos y sutilezas del orden de jugadas en

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Chess Results, 1747-1900: A Comprehensive Record with 465 Tournament Crosstables and 590 Match Scores

This comprehensive chronological reference work gives the results of the main men's chess competitions--both tournaments and matches--that took place around the world from 1747 through 1900. Entries note the location and, when available, the sponsor. First and last names of players are given whenever possible and are standardized for easy reference. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, this work contains 465 tournament crosstables and 590 match scores. It is indexed by events and players.

Chess Results, 1747-1900: A Comprehensive Record with 465 Tournament Crosstables and 590 Match Scores

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Devious Chess: How to Bend the Rules and Win

Master chess psychologist Amatzia Avni outlines a new approach to playing chess - be tricksy about your game, bend the rules where possible and always come out on top! Players of all abilities are urged, step-by-step, to unlearn everything they've learned so far and adopt a fearless attitude to the game. Every tip for bending the rules is included here with comprehensive illustrated games. Includes: * The Nature of Tricky Chess: Virgin land * Raising the tension to boiling point * Coffeehouse chess * Not so elementary, my dear Watson * Peculiar moves* Principled Issues of 'Tricky Chess': Twists and turns * The trap vs blunder dilemma * Methods of conducting 'tricky chess'* Illustrative Games* Assesment and Implementation: Evaluation of tricksy chess * Transforming into a 'tricky chess' player

Devious Chess: How to Bend the Rules and Win

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Chess fundamentals

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Chess fundamentals

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The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1

Combines clear discussions of tactical themes with over 600 well-chosen positions to test, challenge and teach. Although the classic combinations are not ignored, the emphasis here is on positions from modern tournament practice of the last decade. Tactics is a very important part of the game of chess and conscientious study and application of tactical principles is crucial to success. This book offers every type of tactical motif imaginable, from the more common back rank mates, pins, skewers, forks, up to and including some beautiful and rare combinations. This tactical book will prove exceptionally useful for a wide range of players, intermediate through master strength and beyond.

The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1

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Russian Silhouettes

Sosonko: 'Each time after one of those, whom this book about, passed away, I wanted to read about them. Later I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew'.

A collection of his memoirs as first published in New in Chess Magazine.

Russian Silhouettes

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Chess Endings Made Simple : How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence

Most chess-players are all too painfully aware of how many half-points and even full points they squander due to poor endgame play. However, they tend to imagine that improving their endgame play involves a massive amount of study of dry technical positions, and prefer to spend their time on other aspects of the game, perhaps in the unrealistic hope of avoiding endgames entirely. In this book, Ian Snape helps them to tackle endgames with more confidence, so that they look forward to playing them, and are more willing to simplify when this is the best course of action. The first half of the book discusses the areas of endgame theory that are most relevant to practical success. The second half features 100 exercises for the reader to solve, together with full solutions. All the exercises are taken from real games.

Chess Endings Made Simple : How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence

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The Book of Chess

CHESS IS LIKE LIFE. And “Checkmate!” like death. Whether the game and pieces represent war, court society, or the world at large, in a general way and simply seen, the game has come to symbolize the world and death.

This metaphor comes down from the thirteenth century when Jacob de Cessolis, a Dominican friar in the Lombard region of Italy, delivered a sermon based on the game. The sermon was so well received that his fellow friars insisted he write it out. His Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium (Book of the Manners of Men and the Offices of the Nobility), now simply called The Book of Chess, was famous throughout Europe. It was translated into numerous languages and presents readers with a primer on the game and a look into a contemporary’s view of the structure and ways of medieval society.

From kings and queens, to farmers and gamblers, Jacob outlined the virtues and vices, obligations and inclinations of various members of medieval society: those who governed, those who fought and those who worked, playing out their qualities on the chess board.

This edition offers the first English translation of this famous work since Caxton’s printing of 1474.

Includes introduction, notes, bibliographic essay.
16 woodcuts from Caxton’s 1474 edition.

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Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

Designed to improve a player's middlegame performance by analyzing the strategic and tactical elements of a position, these tests also explain how to form a plan and to check that is it sound. Over 100 positions test the reader's ability to formulate the correct plan using a multiple choice format. This thought-provoking work provides a unique method of improving strategic understanding through self-evaluation.

Beginner

Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)

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Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions

On March 24, 2005, a small plane with Bobby Fischer on board landed at Reykjavik Airport. The arrival in Iceland of the former World Chess Champion was front-page news all over the world. In a ploy to free him from prison in Japan the Icelandic Parliament had granted the American Icelandic citizenship. Fischer had been arrested in Tokyo when the US warrant caught up with him that was issued after he had violated American sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a controversial match against Boris Spassky. Icelandic chess grandmaster Helgi Olafsson was 15 year old in 1972, when in a sensational match in his home country Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky for the world title. Breathlessly, Helgi had followed the match and attended a number of games in the playing hall in Reykjavik. When thirty-three years later his childhood hero was arrested in Tokyo, Olafsson became one of the members of the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer. Now Fischer returned to Iceland, a country he was never to leave again till his death on January 17, 2008. Olafsson and Fischer developed a unique friendship. Countless hours they spent together, they talked about chess, about life, made trips, played games, had fun, and quarrelled. Bobby Fischer Comes Home tells the story of their complicated friendship and paints an intimate portrait of the last years of the man who many see as the greatest chess player that ever lived.

Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions

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A Ferocious Opening Repertoire (Everyman Chess)

Tired of playing the same old openings? Bored with stuffy opening theory? This book provides a welcome antidote! Former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala presents a range of vicious weapons for White in a repertoire which is perfect for those who have little time for study, but enjoy taking opponents out of their comfort zones and causing them problems from the very beginning. The repertoire's backbone is provided by the aggressive Veresov Opening (1 d4, 2 Nc3 and 3 Bg5) and this weapon is accompanied by equally hostile options against other Black tries such as the French, Caro-Kann, Dutch, Benoni, Pirc and Philidor. These weapons are ideal choices for those who revel in forcing opponents into chaotic, uncomfortable positions. *Opening weapons to shock and confound opponents *Covers all of Black's main defences *Includes game summaries with key points to remember

A Ferocious Opening Repertoire (Everyman Chess)

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An Opening Repertoire for White (Batsford Chess Library)

This book provides "ammunition" for White chess players wishing to open with 1 d4 and 2 c4. A solid, agressive style is presented and well-known players' moves from famous tournaments are cited throughout as examples. The author is a Grand Master. He has also written "An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player".

An Opening Repertoire for White (Batsford Chess Library)

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Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy: Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch

Chess Secrets is a series of books which uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess: strategy, attack, opening play and gambits, classical play, endgames and preparation. In each book the author studies a number of great players from chess history who have excelled in a particular field of the game and who have undeniably influenced those who have followed.

The chess world has been blessed with some wonderful strategists, innovators of the game with their instructive play and profound teachings. In The Giants of Strategy, Neil McDonald chooses his selection of the most prominent ones and highlights the major contributions they have made. He examines their differing approaches and styles, and from Nimzowitsch to Kramnik, how they followed in each other's footsteps. A careful study of this book will help you to understand and improve in one of the most crucial elements of the game.

*An entertaining and instructive guide to chess strategy
*Learn from the greats of the game
*Discover how famous chess minds work

Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy: Learn from Kramnik, Karpov, Petrosian, Capablanca and Nimzowitsch

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The Middle Game In Chess

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Middle Game In Chess

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The Art of Defense in Chess (McKay Chess Library)

Most games are not won -- they are lost. The vast majority of instructional books tell how to improve a position when it is already (or may be) favorable. The Art of Defense in Chess analyzes the practical aspects of not having the advantage:
-- How to obtain counterplay
-- When to contest open lines
-- When to accept sacrifices
-- How to anticipate short- and long-term threats
-- How to restrain your opponent's pieces
-- How to create a defense perimeter
-- How to minimize losses
-- And much more

The Art of Defense in Chess also discusses the proper psychological attitudes for successful defense -- coolness under fire, the Saving Grace, stonewalling, etc. -- as well as the Principle of Exploitable Weakness and the Principle of Economy, as illustrated in more than one hundred positions taken from competitive play.

The Art of Defense in Chess (McKay Chess Library)

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Kramnik: Move by Move

Vladimir Kramnik is a giant of the chess world. He firmly secured his legendary status when he won the World Championship in 2000 by defeating the previously dominant Garry Kasparov – the only player ever to do so in a match. Kramnik held on to his crown for seven years, and today he remains one of the World's elite players.

In this book, former American Open Champion Cyrus Lakdawala invites you to join him in a study of his favourite Kramnik games. Lakdawala examines Kramnik's renowned skills in attack and defence, exploiting imbalances, dynamic elements, accumulating advantages and endgame play, and shows how we can all improve by learning from Kramnik's masterpieces.

Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge.

* Learn from the games of a chess legend
* Important ideas absorbed by continued practice
* Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Kramnik: Move by Move

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Masters of the Chess Board (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

Réti produces a penetrating thumbnail sketch of each of the great masters who contributed decisively to the progress of chess thinking from the days of Morphy and Anderssen up to the time of Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch and the hypermoderns, amongst whom Réti numbered himself.

Masters of the Chess Board (Hardinge Simpole chess classics)

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1. b4: Theory and Practice of the Sokolsky Opening

Weird and wacky or safe and sound? The Sokolsky Opening is both. Sometimes the play is truly deviant both sides initial few moves all on the a-b-c files and the first pieces exchanged a pair of rooks at other times 1.b4 becomes merely a roundabout route to a respectable English, Reti, King s Indian or reversed French position. This book, packed with fresh analysis and 95 illustrative games, clearly shows that White can look forward to a rewarding albeit complex or unusual struggle. There s no need to dwell on the usual platitudes applied interchangeably to unorthodox openings, like a good psychological choice to get your opponent into unfamiliar territory. The Sokolsky, otherwise known as the Orangutan or the Polish Attack, is an independent opening whose merits are due to chess analysis not psychoanalysis. 1.b4 is sound, the refutations don t work, assessments are disputed, printed theory till now has been inadequate, White s aims are clear, and the practitioners have been world class. So what are you waiting for? Get out there and hit your opponents with the b-pawn!

1. b4: Theory and Practice of the Sokolsky Opening

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Secrets of Chess Tactics

This chess book concentrates on typical practical themes in the middlegame. It deals with the essential ideas of tactical combinations, attack and defence. At every stage there are questions and tests which enable the reader to discover his or her own tactical strengths and weaknesses. This book is the sequel to "Secrets of Chess Training" which won the British Chess Federation's 1990-91 Book of the Year Award.

Secrets of Chess Tactics

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Starting Out: The Reti

Starting Out: The Réti is a further addition to Everyman’s best-selling Starting Out series. Grandmaster Neil McDonald revisits the fundamentals of the Réti, examining the key moves and plans for both sides.

Starting Out: The Reti

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New World Chess Champion: All the Championship Games With Annotations (Russian Chess)

Text: English, Russian (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

New World Chess Champion: All the Championship Games With Annotations (Russian Chess)

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Modern Chess Planning

Good planning is central to good chess. A plan gives meaning to manoeuvres and tactical devices, forming a coherent whole that brings us closer to our goals. The modern understanding of chess planning has evolved considerably since the days of the "grand plan", whereby a player might even try to map out the whole course of the game. Nowadays, top-class players appreciate that the opponent's ideas also deserve respect, and our own plans must take them into account too. Modern grandmasters plan with great purpose but also flexibly, ready to adjust or even change direction completely when the situation demands it.

Grivas provides 75 superb practical examples where it is important to make the right plan. Once the critical position is reached, he guides you through the options and challenges you to find the right path. Detailed solutions are provided, with a full discussion of the pros and cons of the various options.

Modern Chess Planning

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The Cutting Edge 2: Sicilian Najdorf 6.Be3

This book is part of a series examining the cutting edge of chess opening theory. The idea is to identify the most important theoretical battlegrounds of the moment and then analyze as deeply as possible in search of improvements. Thus the reader will be ahead of the current state-of-the-art, rather than lagging behind trying to memorize old games.

This volume deals with the Sicilian Najdorf, a favorite opening of ambitious players at every level. It covers variations after White chooses the popular 6.Be3, heading for the English Attack, and includes the Topalov Variation, the Perenyi Attack, as well as lines with 6...e5.

The Cutting Edge 2: Sicilian Najdorf 6.Be3

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Bobby Fischer, el mas grande (Spanish Edition)

Robert James Fisher es quizás uno de los personajes más emblemáticos del ajedrez. Su vida como ajedrecista es digna de una película. A los 15 años se convirtió en el Gran Maestro más joven de la historia hasta ese momento (1958) Puso literalmente en jaque la supremacía soviética en el juego ciencia enfrentando a los ya consagrados Botvinnik, Geller, Smyslov, Korchnoi, Bronstein, Larsen, Petrosian, Averbach, Taimanov y Tal, entre otros. A los 29 años tomó por asalto la búsqueda por el máximo título del ajedrez mundial. Enfrentó en el denominado "match del siglo" a Boris Spassky, a quien vencería sin asomo de duda, para convertirse en el décimo primer Campeón del Mundo. Bobby Fisher fue el ejemplo del esfuerzo de un solo individuo contra la "maquinaria soviética" del ajedrez. Por sí mimo el estadounidense era un jugador que estaba por encima de todos, en su propia clase. Por sus logros, sus éxitos en el tablero, su ajedrez fantástico y su amor inagotable por el juego ciencia, Fischer es sin duda el más grande de todos los tiempo. Este libro nos narra la vida y obra ajedrecística de Bobby Fischer, analizando sus partidas más significativas, su gran ajedrez combinativo y sus aportaciones al mundo de las 64 casillas. Una obra fundamental para entender el ajedrez moderno.

Bobby Fischer, el mas grande (Spanish Edition)

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21 checkmate puzzles (Chess hobby eBooks)

A great collection of puzzles to take and enjoy anywhere in the world - have fun, challenge yourself, and become a better chess player!

This is the first book in a series designed specifically for eBook readers and tablets, so it contains large, clear diagrams, and can be read without the need for a chess board. Download a sample to see!

Each puzzle has a page for the puzzle and a separate page for the solution, accompanied by a description that explains the tactics being used. Most puzzles are one to four moves in length. After finishing this book you will hopefully find yourself looking for checkmate possibilities more frequently, and recognising some of the patterns of positions in which they occur.

This book has been published in support of a Kickstarter campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/46288769/chess-puzzles-in-your-pocket-a-new-ebook

Enjoy!

21 checkmate puzzles (Chess hobby eBooks)

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Tournament Chess

Tournament Chess

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Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World

This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. Born into Russian nobility, Alekhine lost his family and nearly his life to the Bolsheviks before becoming the world's most powerful chess player. The coming of World War II placed the chess master in a difficult position, forcing him to collaborate with the Nazis and to produce anti-Semitic materials. Desperate to win back his credibility after the war, Alekhine was preparing for the redemptive title match at the time of his sudden death. Alekhine's life was marked by alcoholism, fits of depression, scandalous affairs, marriages of convenience, painful compromises, and his battle to become "the Greatest."

The novel is told as fiction but is based on the actual people and events that were part of his triumphant career and troubled life.

Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World

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King's Indian Defence (Chess)

King's Indian Defence (Chess)

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Chess Results, 1936-1940: A Comprehensive Record with 990 Tournament Crosstables and 125 Match Scores

This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. From the famous to the lesser known, both individual and team matches from 1936 through 1940 are remembered here. Entries record location and, when available, the group that sponsored the event. Both first and last names of players are included whenever possible and are standardized for easy reference. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, this work contains 990 tournament crosstables and 125 match scores. It is indexed by events and players.

Chess Results, 1936-1940: A Comprehensive Record with 990 Tournament Crosstables and 125 Match Scores

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The World Chess Championship Updated to Include the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match

The official Chess Championship of the World was inaugurated with the 1948 tournament. Between then and the 1972 victory of Bobby Fischer, there have been ten matches between champion and challenger, involving only seven players - Botvinnik, Bronstein, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Fischer. Of these, all but Bronstein have won the championship. Svetozar Gligoric, the world-famous Yugoslav international grandmaster, has known all these champions for many years, and it is from firsthand experience that he reveals the clash of their contrasting temperaments and techniques in each encounter. From his shrewd observation and analysis, Bovinnik emerges as the technical perfectionist whereas Bronstein is seen as a master of psychology, and Smyslov as the most assured player. Tal displayed youthful brilliance and imagination while Petrosian triumphed through his positional masterpieces until he was overcome by Boris Spassky, who in turn yielded to the newest champion, Bobby Fischer. For the first time, the full match scores of every series have been collected into this single volume. Clearly presented in descriptive notation with diagrams of the critical match positions and with succinct annotations, organized and edited by the international master R. G. Wade, complete with indexes of players and variations, this record of the postwar world championship matches is an invaluable work of reference as well as a brilliant and intimate portrait of the champions. The World Chess Championship contains the full match scores of every series, diagrams of the critical match positions, annotations, indexes of players and variations, as well as brilliant and intimate portraits of the champions.

The World Chess Championship Updated to Include the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match

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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

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Visual Chess

Visual Chess Christopher Hartzer



Visual Chess

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The Pirc for the Tournament Player

The Pirc defence is one of Black's most aggressive systems, leading to a sharp strategic and tactical struggle in which both players have chances to win. The author surveys the current state of theory in all lines and explains the strategic ideas, concentrating on variations likely to be met. John Nunn is a Grandmaster and the author of other books on chess, including "The Benoni for the Tournament Player".

The Pirc for the Tournament Player

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Lessons In Chess

A illustrated introduction to the fundamental principles of chess, which explains the important concepts of the game, with details of ninety exercises to test key chess skills.

Lessons In Chess

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The March of Chess Ideas: How the Century's Greatest Players Have Waged the War Over Chess Strategy

A lucid and lively discussion of the development of chess strategy by an international master and former U.S. Open and Canadian Open Champion and former member of the U.S. Olympic team. Saidy includes commentary on Bobby Fischer's recent rematch with Boris Spassky.

The March of Chess Ideas: How the Century's Greatest Players Have Waged the War Over Chess Strategy

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Pawn Masses (Chess is Fun)

Here are useful and simple rules of thumb: Two connected passed pawns on the 5th rank are generally worth a knight or bishop; Two connected passers on the 6th rank are generally worth a rook; And two connected passers on the 7th are generally worth a queen.

But what’s the value of having more than two advanced connected passers? There’s nothing in chess as intimidating as a pawn storm, a cluster of connected pawns rolling down the board as part of a coordinated attack. That’s what this e-book explores in an assortment of interesting games, all of which involve remarkable pawn masses.

Unlike many other inexpensive chess e-books, these are fully annotated in understandable, simple language. The profuse use of diagrams make these among the first chess books that you can read WITHOUT A BOARD at your side.

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999.

Pawn Masses (Chess is Fun)

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The March of Chess Ideas

The March of Chess Ideas

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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game.

The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.

Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge

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