Download or read book Masters of Attack written by Alexander Raetsky and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brilliant books from Everyman Chess brought together in one volume. The Masters: Alexander Alekhine, Master of Attack; The Masters: Boris Spassky, Master of Initiative; The Masters: Mikhail Tal, Tactical Genius By Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik. What separated Alexander Alekhine from the rest of his contemporaries? Why did he dominate the chess world for so long? The main reason was undoubtedly his brilliant attacking style of play. Alekhine had a combinative gift and thrilled the chess public and influenced every great chess player since. Garry Kasparov once said I fell in love with the rich complexity of his ideas at the chessboard. Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky. Boris Spassky is a true chess legend, a World Champion who, thanks to his monumental battles with Bobby Fischer, raised the popularity of the game to a level that had never been seen before. Although at the height of his powers many saw Spassky as a complete and universal player, adept at outplaying his opponents in any type of position, itis no secret that from an early age he thrived on sharp, attacking play. He was a superb practical player, and with the initiative at his hands he could conjure up wonderful combinations and deadly attacks. Mikhail Tal was simply a chess phenomenon. The magician from Riga stunned the chess world when he became the youngest ever World Champion (at that time) in 1960, and he won countless supporters for his scintillating tactical play and his infectious enthusiasm for the game. Tal's dazzling tactical style would often leave his hapless opponents in a state of shell shock. As former World Champion Vassily Smyslov once noted Tal's appearance in chess had the effect of an exploding bomb, since his style of play was distinguished by extraordinary combinative brilliance.

Download or read book Alexander Alekhine written by Alexander Raetsky and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What separated Alexander Alekhine from the rest of his contemporaries? Why did he dominate the chess world for so long? The main reason was undoubtedly his brilliant attacking style of play. Alekhine had a combinative gift and thrilled the chess public and influenced every great chess player since. Garry Kasparov once said, 'I fell in love with the rich complexity of his ideas at the chessboard. Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky.' In this book Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik take a look back at how Alekhine defeated his opponents in dazzling style. They carefully select and analyze some of Alekhine's most famous attacks and glorious combinations. A deep study of his games cannot fail to entertain and inspire any true chess fan. *Includes Alekhine's most celebrated games *Test yourself with his most difficult combinations *Perfect for sharpening your attacking play

Download or read book On The Attack written by Jan Timman and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world famous grandmaster explains the modern style of attacking chess to amateur chess players. Jan Timman teaches how to build up an advantage in the game and how to convert that advantage into an aggressive strategy and into great attacking moves. He has selected the most instructive attacking games of great players like Kasparov, Topalov, Karpov, Shirov, and Judit Polgar in order to explain to amateur chess players the basic ideas of modern attacks and their successful execution.

Download or read book Mikhail Tal written by Alexander Raetsky and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter discusses an aspect of Tal's combinational play, provides examples, and then gives the reader an opportunity to attempt to solve puzzles drawn from Tal's games. Tips and solutions are provided.

Download or read book The Masters written by Matthew Weldon and published by Royal Flush Studioz. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a thousand years ago, a group of people, who were deemed masters in combat of each element, were brought together to defend the continent of Adus. One day, an evil was created that almost destroyed the continent and the entire world. The Masters sacrificed themselves and their souls locked in orbs. the orbs were spread out over time. A special type of human, called a cast, was created to stop this evil when it returned. A major change has happened in the timeline and it's up to the Protector of Time, Spex, to figure out what happened. The first time period he investigates is the time of the fourth cast, Tana, and her journey around the continent. Spex watches, as Tana, and her companions, travels around Adus to collect the Master Orbs and stops the evil Dark Rebellion and the creatures called shadow dwellers.

Download or read book The Art of Attack in Chess written by Vladimir Vukovic and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest chess books ever written Vukovic expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add new power and brilliance to any player's game.

Download or read book Masters of Command written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the leadership and strategies of three forefront military leaders from the ancient world, offers insight into the purposes behind their conflicts, and shows what today's leaders can glean from their successes and failures.

Download or read book Think Like a Grandmaster written by A.A. Kotov and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.

Download or read book Attacking Chess written by Josh Waitzkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Waitzkin combines personal anecdotes with solid instruction in this unique introduction to the game of chess. Concentrating on teaching young or new players how to beef up their attacks, Waitzkin presents 40 different chess challenges. He introduces each problem with a brief description of the game from which it was drawn. 50 line drawings.

Download or read book Attack of the masters written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masters of Doom written by David Kushner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Download or read book Secrets of the Ages as Revealed by Spirit and the Masters written by Joshua Stone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the most fascinating of my 40 volume Ascension Book Series. Electrifying reading! This book will leave your absolutely riveted and glued to every chapter. You will not be able to put it down. Spirit and the Masters have systematically revealed the Secrets of the Ages that people have been asking about for the last 2000 years. These are the Secrets from the inner plane Ascended Masters revealed on subjects that have never been discussed before in written form on Earth!

Download or read book Lessons of War as Taught by the Great Masters and Others written by France James Soady and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Master of All Masters written by Khen F. Chu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martial arts and kung fu movies have been quite popular in the English-speaking world for many years since Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan came to prominence. In recent years, some authors have included kung fu elements in writing action novels. Still, fictional novels about the wuxia (the translation of which is “martial arts and chivalry”) genre are rarely seen written in English. As martial arts are about movements and actions, attempts to write books based on martial arts stories can be met with many difficulties. This book is written from the perspective of how the Chinese view the world of martial arts. The Central Kingdom is the first book of the Master of All Masters series.

Download or read book The Masters Manual Chuan Fa Kenpo Close Combat written by Edward Orem and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For instructors of non-sport martial training, this Master's Manual details 340 duan chuan fa or "Short Fist" extremely aggressive and terminal close range fighting techniques, maneuvers and strategies against specific aggressions. As this is oriented toward seasoned instructors, no photos are included, nor are they necessary with the detailed written directions. This is not "self defense" material: that is not its genesis and it is patently inappropriate for those who do not train seriously.The techniques present combinations of throws, locks, breaks, holds, chops, kicks, punches and other strikes arranged in 11 levels of belt ranks up to 5th Black, as presently used in the Chuan Fa Kenpo system. Each technique will easily suggest 10 optional and equally effective maneuvers, i.e. these are "seeds" for dynamic, adaptive responses. There has been a deliberate attempt in the Manual's layout to allow room for you to leave tracks as you modify these seminal maneuvers.

Download or read book Masters of Chaos written by Linda Robinson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda Robinson gained access to their closed world. She traveled with them on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and history. In Masters of Chaos she tells their story through a select group of senior sergeants and field-grade officers, a band of unforgettable characters like Rawhide, Killer, Michael T, and Alan -- led by the unflappable Lt. Col. Chris Conner and Col. Charlie Cleveland, a brilliant but self-effacing West Pointer who led the largest unconventional war campaign since Vietnam in northern Iraq. Robinson follows the Special Forces from their first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. She witnessed their secret sleuthing and unsung successes in southern Iraq, and recounts here for the first time the dramatic firefights of the western desert. Her blow-by-blow story of the attack on Ansar al-Islam's international terrorist training camp has never been told before. The most comprehensive account ever of the modern-day Special Forces in action, Masters of Chaos is filled with riveting, intimate detail in the words of a close-knit band of soldiers who have done it all.

Download or read book The Gemini Masters Vol II written by John Macurdy and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameron St. James is an American high-altitude reconnaissance pilot who was shot down over North Korea in 1972. Running for his life, he meets another American, a man who discovered an ancient book that shows the path to become the ultimate human. He returns to the U.S. in 1988, embarking on a mission to eradicate pedophiles, serial killers, and drug lords. This second installment of the Gemini Masters series takes place in 2016. After completing a mission on the outskirts of Albuquerque, St. James fortuitously meets Monica Ridge, the FBI special agent in charge of the Albuquerque FBI office. Their meeting unexpectedly turns into a romance that surprises them both. Unknown to them, Monica’s ex-husband is stalking her, intent on killing her. Seeing St. James in the picture only adds fuel to his plans. Meanwhile, Master Gin and Boswell, who work for Dr. Morris Thorpe at the HOPE SECT, learn that a computer genius from the 1960s, a man who designed the software that changes the nuclear codes, may have created a back door into the nuclear arsenal, deciding that civilization cannot be saved. Sooner or later, she was going to have to tell him that she had been chasing him for years, even though until yesterday she had no idea who he was. Over the years, her FBI crime statistics had shown an irregular spike in the violent deaths of drug lords, pedophiles and serial killers …