แสดงบทความที่มีป้ายกำกับ Chess: แสดงบทความทั้งหมด
แสดงบทความที่มีป้ายกำกับ Chess: แสดงบทความทั้งหมด

วันจันทร์ที่ 26 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2557

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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วันพุธที่ 30 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Chinese Chess: An Introduction To The Openings

C. K. Lai is a well known Xiangqi player and enthusiast who has written and translated a dozen books on the subject, and is still writing, though less frequently nowadays. There was a time when he produced two books a year, among them his first book Chinese Chess, An Introduction To The Openings, Checkmate In Two, and Chess Of The Wuzhi Mountain (in collaboration with Mr. Shu Ming Li of San Francisco). Translations include Chinese Chess, The Endgame Technique, Victories All The Way, and Fifty Games Of GM Li Laiqun. With a few Xiangqi friends he promoted the game in Britain some two decades ago, helping to create the UK Chinese Chess Association. He is certainly at the forefront of promotion of the game in Britain. One of C. K. Lai's high achievements in Xiangqi competitions was in 1994 when he won the 11th European Xiangqi Championship held in Amsterdam. He also won on several occasions the UK Xiangqi Championship. He is Editor of Chinese Chess Cyber Newsletter, a simple web site based in London which attracts many Xiangqi followers.

Chinese Chess: An Introduction To The Openings

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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 3 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Elements of Chess: An Essential Guide to the Game

Improve your game, your understanding, and your appreciation of chess with this complete, concise guide, specifically designed for beginning to intermediate players. Elements of Chess is an ideal first chess book and a great reference for more serious students of the game. Chapters cover topics such as tactics, strategy, pieces, and pawns, as well as openings, endgames, and checkmates. Sections on the use of clocks, notation, and commonly misunderstood rules are also included. Every major component of the game is explained clearly and illustrated with carefully chosen diagrams.

Elements of Chess: An Essential Guide to the Game

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 4 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Chinese Chess: An Introduction to China's Ancient Game of Strategy

Chinese chess, or ôelephant chess,ö has intrigued the powerful and the quizzical for centuries. Although its rules are similar to the well-known Western game, subtle and fascinating variations must be mastered in order to understand the strategies it requires.

H. T. Lau breaks the silence of decades of publishing on this game and introduces Chinese chess to Westerners, discussing with the aid of 170 diagrams the board, the movement and values of the pieces, and basic rules for capturing and defeating an opponent.

This book includes eighty mid- and end-game excercises designed to sharpen playing skills, and concludes with two appendixes devoted to the elegantly constructed games found in The Secret Inside the Orange and The Plum-Blossom Meter, two classic seventeenth-century works on Chinese chess.


Chinese Chess: An Introduction to China's Ancient Game of Strategy

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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 21 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2556

Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points

Purdy fills you in on the details, explains the whys, and makes it easier for you to improve—to be a very good player without large amounts of memorization. Even the elementary principles which begin this book have points not seen in other works of this type. His language is a bit unusual, making it easier to remember such things as "biffing the Bishop." He covers all three phases of a game: the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. Lastly, a complete game is dissected for the purpose of showing how Purdy's Rules are used effectively. The best beginner's book on chess you will ever read.

Guide to Good Chess: First Steps to Fine Points

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วันจันทร์ที่ 18 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2556

Let's Play Chess: A Step by Step Guide for New Players (The Pandolfini Chess Library)

From the author's Introduction of the first edition: Chess is by far the most popular board game in the world. There are millions of players of all ages and the number keeps growing. Maybe it's because you become a general who directs an army against your opponent in an exciting battle of wits. Whatever the reason, chess is challenging and fascinating. This is my attempt to lure you to the royal game. It's based on the very same lessons I have given to thousands of beginners. Their questions and problems have shaped it. Moreover, some of the best ideas in the book were actually suggested by new players! I have tried to be as direct as possible. To make your journey a smooth one, the fundamentals have been broken down into short, logical statements. Each idea is numbered, ordered, and clearly stated. For the most part, statements are linked in graded sequence with the easier ones preceding the harder. The format is unique and easy to follow. You should feel yourself learning step by step. You will see how chess players think about their moves. Where desirable, explanation has replaced calculation. The stress is on understanding, not memory. There are plenty of diagrams for almost every idea.

Let's Play Chess: A Step by Step Guide for New Players (The Pandolfini Chess Library)

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 10 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2556

Learn Chess: A Complete Course

Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining the rules and basic strategies, whilst the second develops a thorough understanding of the various winning methods, and includes a systematic study of openings, an introduction to attacking techniques, and a guide to fundamental endgame themes.

Learn Chess: A Complete Course

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วันเสาร์ที่ 26 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556

วันศุกร์ที่ 25 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course, Expanded 3rd Edition

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วันพุธที่ 23 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556

Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi

The ancient game of chess has its roots in India, where the legendary emperor Ravana used it to exercise his generals in strategy and tactics. Played by millions around the world, shogi is the uniquely Japanese variant of chess.

Japanese Chess is the ultimate book on shogi for beginners and experienced players alike. Its step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams lead the reader through the strategies and intricacies of one of Japan's most popular board games. Shogi is the only variation of chess in which an opponent's captured piece can be dropped back onto the board as one's own. This makes for extremely exciting, dynamic game play in which momentum can quickly shift back and forth between players.

This essential resource includes a shogi board bound right into it, folding out for use with the included shogi pieces.

Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi

Trevor Leggett rose to the rank of fourth dan in shogi. For many years he was the head of Japanese-language broadcasts for the BBC, and was the compiler and translator of A First Zen Reader, A Second Zen Reader, and the author of Zen and the Ways...

วันพุธที่ 16 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556

True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board

Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your chess. This book is awash with invaluable advice on all stages of the game. Taylor emphasizes the practical aspects of chess: how to really make the most of your ability; how to win at all costs; and how to absorb the lessons of defeat to come back stronger.

Grab every advantage over your opponents and be in the best possible shape for battle. True Combat Chess will show you the way.

True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556

Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

A new, more logical method of evaluating your game position in chess.

Building Up Your Chess makes use of colorful graphs and a new, more logical method of expressing the evaluation of a chess position to teach the critical skill of assessing how you stand. Lev Alburt's unique experience as both a top-level champion and a world-renowned teacher allow him to explain in a clear, logical way how to master chess. He maximizes the results of your reading time. More than 400 chess diagrams make reading easy.

Building Up Your Chess: The Art of Accurate Evaluation and Other Winning Techniques

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วันอังคารที่ 18 ธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Point Count Chess: An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess

Perhaps more than any other chess book ever, this book was greeted with calumny and ridicule when it first came out. However, there has been a re-appraisal. Chess coaches have found this book to be great for teaching chess to their students. It is now highly recommended by a large number of chess coaches and trainers. Computer chess programs have also adopted the concepts introduced in this book. Chess Review magazine called this book “a completely original concept in chess instruction.” This book, via the Point Count, shows the reader how to evaluate these differences and exploit them. What is more, the reader also acquires a working knowledge of more than a score of plans, their mechanisms and physical contours, and the influence they exert in actual play. This book is based on the following premise: Every move on the chessboard is an exchange, a give and take. The very first move, if it is a pawn move, for example, gives away control of the squares that the pawn had previously commanded and takes control of new squares. Similarly at any stage of the game, there is implicit in every move a plus and minus quality. To be sure, these differences of themselves are usually minute and carry little weight. When combined in series of inter-related moves – plans – their effect is to sway the course of the game. Pawn skeletons, chains, salients and other basic features of this valuable unit are compared structurally as to strengths and weaknesses.

Point Count Chess: An Accurate Guide to Winning Chess

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