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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Modern Chess Strategy

Copyright 1945, 1950 by David McKay Company. Copyright renewed 1973, 1978 by Edward Lasker. Published in the US by David McKay Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Random House Inc., New York. Distribued by Random house, Inc., New York. Manufactured in the USA. Number line: "0 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1" and stated inside book "David McKay Company 1992 Edition." The back book cover indicated the book was printed in the USA with a copyright 1989 by Random House, Inc.

Modern Chess Strategy

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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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Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces

Ludek Pachman was both one of the world's strongest chess grandmasters and one of the world's greatest writers and teachers of the game. He led a remarkable and amazing but somewhat tragic life. Although one of the world's strongest players who won 15 international tournaments, he never quite made it to the top elite. He won four zonal tournaments and played in six Interzonal tournaments, possibly a record, but he missed qualifying to the World Champion Candidates Tournament by a half-point twice. He played in Interzonals at Saltsjöbaden 1948, Saltsjöbaden 1952, Gothemburg 1955, Portoroz 1958, Amsterdam 1964 and Manila 1976. Pachman was the first chess grandmaster to truly publicly endorse, investigate and recommend computer chess. Pachman played eight tournament games against Bobby Fischer, finishing with an even score. His most famous game is his win over Bobby Fischer in Chile in 1959.

Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces

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Chess Strategy #5 Powerful Pawnplay (Chess Strategy Series)

To become a very strong chess player you have to know how to play
your pawns. In this element of the Chess Strategy Series Study we watch as two of the greatest Grandmasters demonstrate the strategic thinking behind their pawn play and show how vital it is to place supporting pieces with precision.
We then examine a ‘cat and mouse’ game where the winner uses the strategy of switching the focus of the attack - and it’s a master class in exploiting the weakness of doubled pawns.
Bobby Fischer shows that losing the exchange to gain a strategic advantage can be enough to win the game and then there are two mighty, one hundred year old clashes between those legends of the game, Frank Marshall and Jose Capablanca.
Here’s a question for you:- As it’s unlikely that a Grandmaster will have beaten another Grandmaster because the loser fell for a simple tactical trick or suffered from a glaring weakness in his
endgame technique or some other aspect of his game, just what is it that separated them?
The answer is likely to be that one of them had a better grasp of the strategic requirements of the positions which arose.
It's the fine points which make the difference between winning and losing at the highest levels of the game.
Frank Marshall loses twice to Jose Capablanca; in the first game because he doesn’t move his pawns and in the second because he does!
In this series we're looking over the shoulders of the Masters as they play their games; it's the best way to improve your own game.

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Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players

Warning: This book could help you improve your chess game significantly.

"Imagine having a personal chess mentor, who teaches you thorough problem solving skills for playing chess that drastically improves your game..." Wouldn't that be fantastic? It would also be extremely expensive!

Learning the basic rules of playing chess is only the beginning. Although it is great to play games for entertainment, many chess players want to take their game to the next level. But that is not that easy. Just playing might improve your chess proficiency, but it does not improve your problem solving skills, as that requires different thinking processes. To develop those processes, you need strategies developed by chess experts.

Meet Tim and Anthea. They know what it takes to bring chess to the next level, as they have done that for themselves. How? Through the use of chess tactics. And NOW... it is your turn!

Let Tim and Anthea assist you in improving your chess game by using their specially developed Chess Tactics ebook. This is not just another tactics books, as Tim and Anthea have perfected their ebook by learning from the mistakes other chess authors made. The great part of Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players is that:

• it is error FREE and double checked!
• it contains original tactics 100% new;
• it consists of tactics from real chess players.

Many chess books have cool problems and patterns that really are rare and unrealistic, and not needed. Although these are fun to play, they are not really the best way to improve your chess game. That is why this book is different as Tim and Anthea want you to focus on getting good at playing patterns that happen all the time.

But that is not all. Tim and Anthea have chosen to make their ebook very easy to read, leaving out unnecessary information or page fillers. You will see one chess problem per page, with the solution presented to you on the next page. No more need to skip back and forth through the whole book to find that brain wrecking solution.

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Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players

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