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Book Chess Players Journal and Scrapbook

Download or read book Chess Players Journal and Scrapbook written by Michael Serovey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a journal and scrapbook for chess players to use to document their chess games and tournament experiences.

Book How Not to Play Chess

Download or read book How Not to Play Chess written by Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing plans of action based on positional analysis: weak and strong squares, control of open lines, pawn structure, more. 20 problems.

Book Chess Player s Scrap Book

Download or read book Chess Player s Scrap Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The KGB Plays Chess

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yuri Felshtinsky
  • Publisher : SCB Distributors
  • Release : 2010-09-15
  • ISBN : 1936490013
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The KGB Plays Chess written by Yuri Felshtinsky and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Cultural History of Chess players

Download or read book A Cultural History of Chess players written by John Sharples and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

Book How to Reassess Your Chess

Download or read book How to Reassess Your Chess written by Jeremy Silman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.

Book The Art of Learning

Download or read book The Art of Learning written by Josh Waitzkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Book Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot  Large Print 16pt

Download or read book Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot Large Print 16pt written by Nicole Markotic and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In boomtown Western Canada, a quirky young woman grows up amid a family dynamic that leaves her feeling misunderstood and left out. She's a child of immigrants from war-torn Germany and Croatia, parents who cling to vestiges of a traumatic past th...

Book Counterplay

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  • Author : Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-03-22
  • ISBN : 0520948203
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Counterplay written by Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess’s intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.

Book Special collections

Download or read book Special collections written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Basic Chess Endings

Download or read book Basic Chess Endings written by Reuben Fine and published by Random House Puzzles & Games. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most authoritative reference work on the,endgame, serious students of chess will find this,book unmatched in its depth and range. Updated,with the latest innovations in the endgame and,adapted to algebraic notation by Grandmaster Pal,Benko, the result is what chess aficionados have,been waiting for - a thoroughly modern bible on,chess endings. Packed with diagrams that make,examples easy to follow, this is an indispensable,point of reference for the Grandmaster in the,making.

Book Ignaz Kolisch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fabrizio Zavatarelli
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-11-12
  • ISBN : 0786496908
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Ignaz Kolisch written by Fabrizio Zavatarelli and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthusiastic verve--"brio" some could say--marked both Ignaz Kolisch's personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presented--by far the largest collection ever--complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. Several widespread and long-standing errors are corrected. A work deeply researched among sources in many languages, the book serves also as a record of European chess in the late 1850s through the 1880s.

Book The Chess Player s Chronicle

Download or read book The Chess Player s Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book Subject catalog written by Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chess Periodicals

Download or read book Chess Periodicals written by Gino Di Felice and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference work presents detailed bibliographical information about worldwide chess periodicals past to present. It contains 3,163 entries and many cross-references. Information for each entry includes year and country of publication, frequency, sponsors, publisher, editors, subject, language, alternate titles, mergers, continuations, and holdings in chess libraries. Includes an index of periodicals by country and a general index of periodical titles.

Book Quarterly Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brooklyn Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: