Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Chess

Everyone is fascinated by great games of chess: the spectacular sacrifices, profound strategic plans and brilliant endgame play produced in the heat of combat are powerful expressions of the creativity of the human mind. But which, of all the hundreds of candidates, are the very greatest games ever played? Here, in this book, is Grandmaster Raymond Keene's personal selection: twelve games, played by the giants of chess, each of them representing a peak in chess-playing genius. From the slashing attacks of Paul Morphy to the classical beauty of Jose Capablanca; from the python like constriction of Aron Nimzowitsch to the dynamic aggression of Gary Kasparov: all styles of chess are present, as are the great names of chess, including Steinitz, Lasker, Alekhine, Spassky and Fischer.

Duels of the Mind: The Twelve Best Games of Chess

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Marshall's Best Games of Chess

This Dover edition, first published in 1960, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1942 under the title My Fifty Years in Chess. In this book Grandmaster Frank J Marshall, United States Chess Champion for 27 years, tells the story of his career and presents a magnificent collection of 140 of his best games.

Marshall's Best Games of Chess

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Marshall's Best Games of Chess (formerly titled My Fifty Years of Chess)

Marshall's Best Games of Chess (formerly titled My Fifty Years of Chess)

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My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937

World Champion Garry Kasparov wrote, "Alexander Alekine is the first luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess." Bobby Fischer wrote, "He had great imagination. He could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. It was in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest concepts."

My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937

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Your Best Move

“I look one move ahead... the best!”, Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a wonderfully rich and complex game, but ultimately the goal can be simply defined as consistently finding the best move. If you are able to do this, you will win your games. However, the million dollar question is: how can we give ourselves the very best chance of doing so?

Per Ostman is convinced that there are three key elements: first and foremost, a structured move-by-move thinking process; second, the desired skills to execute this process; and finally, traditional chess knowledge we can build upon. Ostman examines these three vital building blocks which form the basis of what we need to master. He describes in detail a clear thinking process he has developed over several years as a chess teacher – a process to guide us in our ultimate search to find the best move.

Your Best Move

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Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess

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Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess

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My best games of chess, 1931-1954

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My best games of chess, 1931-1954

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