The Chess Players
Author | : Frances Parkinson Keyes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Chess players |
ISBN | : 9780855946548 |
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Based on the life of Paul Morphy.
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Author | : Frances Parkinson Keyes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Chess players |
ISBN | : 9780855946548 |
Based on the life of Paul Morphy.
Author | : James Eade |
Publisher | : B.E.S. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781438089423 |
Author | : Herman Grooten |
Publisher | : New In Chess |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9056916947 |
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? With this new edition of his award winning book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions and how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan. His teachings are based on the famous “Elements” of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding: pawn structure, piece placement, lead in development, open files, weaknesses, space advantage and king safety. You will master the art of converting a temporary plus into other, more permanent advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises. This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’ with new exercises.
Author | : Irving Chernev |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Chess |
ISBN | : 9780486286747 |
Noted authority selects 12 greatest players Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Fischer, 8 more and presents 115 of their most brilliant games, including "greatest game ever played." 12 photos. Bibliography. "
Author | : Reuben Fine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9784871878159 |
Dr. Fine, both a pyschoanalyst and a great chess player of the 20th century, analyzes what sets chess champions apart.
Author | : Yuri Felshtinsky |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1936490013 |
The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB, on the one hand, and several brave individuals, on the other. Their names are famous in the chess world: Viktor Kortschnoi, Boris Spasski, Boris Gulko and Garry Kasparov became subjects of constant pressure, blackmail and persecution in the USSR. Their victories at the chess board were achieved despite this victimization. Unlike in other books, this story has two perspectives. The victim and the persecutor, the hunted and the hunter, all describe in their own words the very same events. One side is represented by the famous Russian chess players Viktor Kortschnoi and Boris Gulko. For many years they fought against a powerful system, and at the end they were triumphant. The Soviet Union collapsed and they got what they were fighting for: their freedom. Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov, who left Russia in 1996 and now lives in Canada, was one of those who had worked all his life for the KGB and was responsible for the sport sector of the USSR. It is only now for the first time that he has decided to tell the reader his story of the KGB�s involvement in Soviet Sports. This is his first book, and it is not only full of sensations, but it also dares to name names of secret KGB agents previously known only as famous chess masters, sportsmen or sport officials. Just a few short years ago a book like this would have been unimaginable. Read this book. It is not only about chess. It is about glorious victory of the great chess masters over the forces of darkness.
Author | : Arpad E. Elo |
Publisher | : Ishi Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780923891275 |
One of the most extraordinary books ever written about chess and chessplayers, this authoritative study goes well beyond a lucid explanation of how todays chessmasters and tournament players are rated. Twenty years' research and practice produce a wealth of thought-provoking and hitherto unpublished material on the nature and development of high-level talent: Just what constitutes an "exceptional performance" at the chessboard? Can you really profit from chess lessons? What is the lifetime pattern of Grandmaster development? Where are the masters born? Does your child have master potential? The step-by-step rating system exposition should enable any reader to become an expert on it. For some it may suggest fresh approaches to performance measurement and handicapping in bowling, bridge, golf and elsewhere. 43 charts, diagrams and maps supplement the text. How and why are chessmasters statistically remarkable? How much will your rating rise if you work with the devotion of a Steinitz? At what age should study begin? What toll does age take, and when does it begin? Development of the performance data, covering hundreds of years and thousands of players, has revealed a fresh and exciting version of chess history. One of the many tables identifies 500 all-time chess greatpersonal data and top lifetime performance ratings. Just what does government assistance do for chess? What is the Soviet secret? What can we learn from the Icelanders? Why did the small city of Plovdiv produce three Grandmasters in only ten years? Who are the untitled dead? Did Euwe take the championship from Alekhine on a fluke? How would Fischer fare against Morphy in a ten-wins match? 1t was inevitable that this fascinating story be written, ' asserts FIDE President Max Euwe, who introduces the book and recognizes the major part played by ratings in today's burgeoning international activity. Although this is the definitive ratings work, with statistics alone sufficient to place it in every reference library, it was written by a gentle scientist for pleasurable reading -for the enjoyment of the truths, the questions, and the opportunities it reveals.
Author | : Jennifer Shahade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781936277032 |
A collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. Chess lovers of all levels can enjoy the puzzles, as the difficulty goes all the way from one-move killer blows to deep, complex combinations.
Author | : 阿城 |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789629962371 |
The protagonist of The Chess Master, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from "chess fool" to "chess master"--from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitter of the Chinese tradition. A Cheng has created in The Chess Master a radically new fiction that is both thoroughly modern and deeply imbued with the Chinese tradition.
Author | : Francis M. Naumann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Chess |
ISBN | : 9780980055627 |
Edited by Francis M. Naumann. Text by Francis M. Naumann, Bradley Bailey, Jennifer Shahade.