Karl Marx Plays Chess
Author | : Andy Soltis |
Publisher | : Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andy Soltis |
Publisher | : Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
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Author | : Patrick Wolff |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2003-02-05 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0786548282 |
Confused by esoteric chess terms like castling, forking, and making Luft? Can't tell whether you've got your opponent in check or checkmate? This book will tell you everything you need to know to become a budding Kasparov, from the names of pieces and their movements to tactics and strategies, from advanced maneuvers to setting up chess tournaments and clubs where you can test your skills. Also covered: a history of chess, from its beginnings in ancient India to how it became the world's most played game; all the basics of the board and the pieces; elementary rules and object of the game; famous openings and well-know tactics; sneak attacks and other tricky plays; exercises that explain strategies and chess-move annotations (often found in newspapers); and advice for using the Internet and computer programs to better your game and tips on starting a chess club or tournament.
Author | : Benjamin Hale |
Publisher | : Open Court |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812698185 |
Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question of whether Garry Kasparov is, in fact, a cyborg. Putting forth a remarkable array of different views on chess from philosophers with varied chess-proficiency, Philosophy Looks at Chess is an engaging read for chess adherents and the philosophically inclined alike.
Author | : Patrick Wolff |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2005-05-03 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1615643826 |
Written by a U.S. Chess Champion, International Chess Grandmaster, and longtime instructor, this book includes information for both novice and expert, including over 400 illustrated chessboards and photos; over 20 pages of detailed answer key notes; a completely new chapter on new evidence about chess and its impact on brain power; a guide to the art of chess collectibles; and more. - Foreword by Larry Evans, former International Grandmaster and author of 20 highly acclaimed chess books and a popular monthly advice column in Chess Life - For the beginner or the champ, and for young and old
Author | : Francis Wheen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393049237 |
Looks at the life of the father of Communism focusing primarily on the human side of the man rather than his works.
Author | : Achilleas Zographos |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-11-03 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1941270735 |
A Most Fascinating Journey! It has long been recognized that there are only three major areas of human endeavor which produce prodigies: music, chess and mathematics. This does not occur by happenstance. There are links on many levels. Now, for the first time, Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa examines the yet unexplored relation of chess to music. Mathematics is a main common denominator, a fact that is highlighted accordingly. The thesis of this extraordinarily researched book is that chess is art in itself. It can create art and is strongly related to mathematics and music. As becomes clear, this relationship has already been introduced by some legendary players such as Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Kramnik . Great artists such as John Cage, Marcel Duchamp and Arnold Schönberg, to name but a few, have also been fascinated by the very same idea. Surprisingly, this has not been explored in detail so far – only some sporadic articles exist, by authors specializing in either music or chess. There are chapters that address issues which are specialized in chess and music, while others cover related issues of general, social and artistic nature. Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa can be appreciated by readers who have a good, general, though non-specific background, in both fields. That is, no technical knowledge of music is required, with the only prerequisite to fully appreciate the text being the understanding of standard chess rules. The text could be equally enlightening to students of music or mathematics, as an added intellectual insight into these two disciplines. The text is supplemented by many chess diagrams, charts, and over 50 full-color images. So, turn on the music, set up chessboard, get out the calculator and let the author take you on a most fascinating journey that is Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa.
Author | : J. C. Hallman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1466852232 |
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history. In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible allegations of his involvement in drug running, embezzlement, and murder, the impoverished Kalmykian people have rallied around their leader's obsession---chess is played on Kalmykian prime-time television and is compulsory in Kalmykian schools. In addition, Kalmyk women have been known to alter their traditional costumes of pillbox hats and satin gowns to include chessboard-patterned sashes. The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities, writer and chess enthusiast J. C. Hallman explores the obsessive hold chess exerts on its followers by examining the history and evolution of the game and the people who dedicate their lives to it. Together with his friend Glenn Umstead, an African-American chessmaster who is arguably as chess obsessed as Ilyumzhinov, Hallman tours New York City's legendary chess district, crashes a Princeton Math Department game party, challenges a convicted murderer to a chess match in prison, and travels to Kalmykia, where they are confronted with members of the Russian intelligence service, beautiful translators who may be spies, seven-year-old chess prodigies, and the sad blight of a land struggling toward capitalism.
Author | : Daniel Johnson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780547133379 |
Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.
Author | : Garry Kasparov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781781945179 |
This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's history of the World Chess Championship. This volume features the play of champions Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) and Boris Spassky (1969-1972).
Author | : Wilhelm Liebknecht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |