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

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New World Chess Champion: All the Championship Games With Annotations (Russian 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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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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The Chess Master Mind - The Book of Chess Trivia, World Records, Puzzles and Facts

A dream for the chess fanatic, this book contains a huge number of facts and interesting anecdotes from the world of chess!

From 12 year old Grandmasters to World Champions that died in the same hospital as each other, Grandmaster games that were settled in one move, to complex variations of the game with pieces that could checkmate the King on their own, it's all here!

Find out who the most dominant World Champion ever was and the arguments for the greatest player ever. Follow the progress of chess computers from elaborate hoaxes and discover which world champion was told as a child that he had no future in the game!

Twelve sections with diagrams and photographs plus some of the most interesting and tricky chess puzzles known - all brought together with a linked (html) table of contents for the most pleasurable reading experience!

Try a free sample!

The Chess Master Mind - The Book of Chess Trivia, World Records, Puzzles and Facts

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This Crazy World of Chess

This Crazy World of Chess

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Bobby Fischer Vs the Rest of the World

In 1972, an epic chess match took place in Iceland between representatives of the two great super-powers of the world: Bobby vs. Boris. Boris was backed by the Mighty Soviet Union, with late night phone calls coming from his handlers in Moscow, telling him what his next move should be. Meanwhile, Bobby stood alone against the might of the opposing nation. But, Bobby was not exactly alone. The Americans did not need to tell him what moves to make on the chessboard. Bobby already knew how to do that. Rather, what the Americans needed to do was somehow to get him to sit down at the board and play the game. Here is the story of that titanic struggle: One half of the world trying to get Bobby to play, while the other half was trying to defeat him assuming that he did play. Hence the Title: Bobby Fischer vs. The Rest of the World. In the end, Bobby won. Émigrés from the Soviet Union often state that, more than any other single event, this defeat led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Bobby Fischer Vs the Rest of the World

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Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions

Four-time US Champion Yasser Seirawan provides a fascinating and highly entertaining account of his games and encounters with the world champions of chess including:

Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Max Euwe.

Having been involved in frequent battles against world champions over a 25-year period, Seirawan is in an ideal position to reveal how it really feels to be facing the legends of the game.

He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters – both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chessplayers of the last 50 years.

During this time Seirawan has also been highly active in off-the-board chess activities. This has brought him into close personal contact with many of these champions. In,"Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions,"Seirawan recounts many stories involving these giants of the game - giving an intriguing insight into their personalities away from the board.

Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions

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The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

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The world's chess championship, 1937;: Official account of the games,

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Miniatures from the World Champions

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Miniatures from the World Champions

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From Baguio to Merano: The World Championship Matches of 1978 and 1981

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From Baguio to Merano: The World Championship Matches of 1978 and 1981

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Searching for Bobby Fischer: World of Chess Observed by the Father of a Child Prodigy

Along with millions of other Americans, Fred Waitzkin was smitten by chess during the historic Fisher-Spassky championship match in 1972. Inspired by Bobby Fischer's charisma, he began to study the game, but quickly gave it up when he discovered he had little talent for it. His interest was revived a decade later when his young son began coaxing him to play and, to the author's astonishment, was beating him. This is the story of three years in the lives of father and son, from the moment when Josh first sits at a board at the age of six until he wins the national primary championship three years later.

Searching for Bobby Fischer: World of Chess Observed by the Father of a Child Prodigy

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Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov: The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion

With his fine endgame technique Anatoly Karpov managed to win positions which nearly everybody else assessed as a draw. This book takes, for the first time, a closer look at his endgame skills, which have always remained something of an enigma, explaining the finer points better than Karpov himself has ever cared to do. A highly instructive and entertaining book.

Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov: The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion

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Chess World Championships: All the Games, All With Diagrams, 1834-1998

This brand new edition contains every move (standard international algebraic notation) of every game played in world championship competition, including all "official" such titles since 1886 and all decisive matches by the world’s leading players for the 50 years prior to that date. A diagram of the critical or most interesting moment accompanies every game. All games are dated, with playing locations noted. All source material discrepancies have been researched and resolved. Charts or crosstables showing overall results precede each match or tournament. A lengthy bibliography and a detailed openings index complete the work.

Chess World Championships: All the Games, All With Diagrams, 1834-1998

"A complete record of the game’s most important competitions...a welcome addition" -- Inside Chess"Impressive volume...this is an exciting reference book...

Chess for Children: How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game

With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by his pet alligator Kirsty, self-proclaimed Grand Alligator of chess.
Chess is recognized in many countries as a useful tool for developing creative thinking in children. Although chess can be regarded as a rather complex and mysterious game, the rules themselves are straightforward. It doesn't take long to learn how the pieces move, and even children as young as five can enjoy exciting games.

Chess for Children: How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game

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