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Publisher
Gloucester Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Chess champion Garry Kasparov presents an introductory overview of the game, covering the rules, the pieces and their moves, notation, piece values, winning and drawing, tactics, checkmate, and opening and endgame play, and includes more than fifty puzzles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beginning students of the game as well as veterans of the board will find this chess guide offers a wealth of inspiration, enjoyment, and practical chess advice. In providing valuable instruction for players at all levels, noted chess writer and teacher Peter Tamburro initially presents elementary ideas that can be used immediately by beginners. The attack section features the tactics of such great masters of the assault as Fischer, Keres, Alekhine,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
What, really, is a chess combination? It is a maneuver generally employing surprise and a sacrifice, in which pieces work together to bring about a sudden advantage. It is perhaps the most aesthetically satisfying and successful technique in the game. Some players believe that the combination is a spontaneous creation with no guiding laws; the possibility springs up in the mind like a flash of genius. In this classic work, however, Znosko-Borovsky...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The endgame study, like the chess problem, eliminates over-the-board competition to concentrate on an invented endgame position carefully plotted to fox, bewilder, challenge, and otherwise stimulate the solver. Unlike problems, studies do not stipulate the number of moves to the solution; they demand a greater knowledge of endgame theory, thus becoming useful tools for actual players while giving "studyists" self-contained epiphanies of compositional...
12) My System
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this landmark work of chess theory, the grandmaster illuminates many of the pioneering concepts that came to define modern chess.
A century after it first appeared in print, “My System’ remains one of the most important books in the history of chess. Here, grandmaster and Hypermodern theorist Aron Nimzowitsch provides a detailed and lucid explanation of his most influential ideas. Flying in the face of prevailing chess orthodoxy, Nimzowitsch...
13) Check & mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Last Gamesman is the story of Asa Hoffmann, legendary New York Chess player and master of Backgammon, Poker, Scrabble, Bridge, and Horse handicapping. Born into a privileged family of two attorneys, Asa was sent to the best schools including Horace Mann and Columbia University, but after a year at Columbia left school and his Park Avenue family home to make a living "hustling" chess and other games in the streets, parks and clubs of New York...
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Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Learn chess from an international master and renowned teacher in these intensively illustrated, easy-to-understand lessons for players at all levels. Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class chess teacher, writer, and player who has won the U.S. Open, The National Open, and the American Open.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An illuminating profile of the world champion chess player and political activist by the acclaimed author of Searching for Bobby Fischer. Over the course of his unprecedented career, Garry Kasparov dominated the chess world with astonishing creativity and explosive passion. In this unforgettable work of reportage, author Fred Waitzkin "captures better than anyone--including Kasparov himself in his own memoir--the various sides of this elusive genius"...
19) Computer chess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. 80 illustrations.
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