Download or read book Golombek s Encyclopedia of Chess written by Harry Golombek and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1977 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical, historical, and practical information on chess.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom written by Eric Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important concepts, strategies, tactics, wisdom, and thinking that very chess player must know, plus the golden nuggets of knowledge behind every attack and defense, are collected in this one highly focused volume targeted to beginning and intermediate players.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chess Problems written by Milan Velimirović and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants written by David Pritchard and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single comprehensive guide to chess and all its extended family of boardgames.
Download or read book Middlegames written by László Polgár and published by Konemann-Ellipsis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games written by David N. L. Levy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Batsford Chess Encyclopedia written by N. J. Divinsky and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamental Chess Openings written by Paul van der Sterren and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The perfect survival guide to the chess openings * All openings covered * Detailed verbal explanations of plans for both sides * Up-to-date and featuring many tips and recommendations * Insights into the 'character' of each opening * Written by one of the world's foremost opening experts The first moves of a chess game define the nature of the whole struggle, as both players stake their claim to the critical squares and start to develop their plans. It is essential to play purposefully and to avoid falling into traps or reaching a position that you don't understand. This is not a book that provides masses of variations to memorize. Paul van der Sterren instead offers a wealth of ideas and explanation, together with the basic variations of each and every opening. This knowledge will equip players to succeed in the opening up to good club level, and provide a superb grounding in opening play on which to build a more sophisticated repertoire. The strategies he explains will, unlike ever-changing chess opening theory, remain valid as long as chess is played, and so the time spent studying this book will be rewarded many times over. Grandmaster Paul van der Sterren has won the Dutch Championship on two occasions, and in 1993 reached the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship. He is an internationally renowned chess writer and editor: he was one of the founding editors of New in Chess, for whose Yearbooks he has contributed more than 150 opening surveys.
Download or read book The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants written by David Brine Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pawn Endings written by Yuri Averbakh and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 97, Yuri Averkakh is the World's Oldest still living chess grandmaster and is still active in chess. In the ending, the advantage of a single "insignificant" pawn can frequently prove decisive, as that pawn inexorably pushes forward and is finally able to reach the last rank and is able to transform itself into a queen.
Download or read book Weapons of Chess An Omnibus of Chess Strategies written by Bruce Pandolfini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Bruce Pandolfini brings us the most accessible and easy-to-use chess strategy book ever. Written for beginning and intermediate players, Weapons of Chess is the first encyclopedia of chess strategies that doesn't rely on the usual baffling chess notation. There are no symbolic chess moves, no charts or sequences in chess notation: every move is explained in words. Arranged alphabetically for easy use and based mainly on pawn formation, the incredibly detailed and thorough entries in this book talk a player through dozens of common strategic dilemmas, such as "doubled pawn," "bishops vs. knights," and "hanging pawn pair." Diagrams illustrate the terms, first showing the basic position and then strategically moving to more complicated versions of it. Players will learn how to formulate plans once they have reached a middlegame, enabling them to make wiser strategic decisions after the first few moves of the game. Designed for use as a ready reference during actual practice games, and usable without a chess board, Weapons of Chess is a unique and invaluable resource for any developing chess player.
Download or read book Some Selected Post Offices written by J. B. Manandhar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Chess written by Harold James Ruthven Murray and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 121 Chess Problems written by Joseph William Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects many chess problems for personal study.
Download or read book 1000 Best Short Games of Chess written by Irving Chernev and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game. It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment. Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?
Download or read book Chess Opening Essentials The Ideas and Planning Behind All Chess Openings written by Stefan Djuric and published by Chess Opening Essentials. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow. Chess Opening Essentials has exactly the right balance and is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavor of how every opening works and points at the various middlegame plans that apply after the opening has ended.Chess Opening essentials helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste and is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning.The authors do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. They include the main alternative responses and give clear indications for further study.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chess Patterns Part 1 written by Rodolfo Pardi and published by Gatteria. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suggest you look inside: to check that you will understand to see 17 out of the 101 patterns to see figurines instead of piece initials to appreciate the neat diagrams to link to sample games This ebook is a combination of "Fundamental Chess Patterns 1-50 and 51-100", a directory of 101 patterns to be used as a reference, AND the complete analysis of the following patterns: Critical squares, Illusory Pin, Smothered Mate, Attack to the castled King. It presents on my web site one game for most of the patterns. With a small increase of price, the size increases to more than 500 pages, with a lot of diagrams (300 total) to help understanding the patterns It is not easy for beginners and intermediate players to learn how to play chess and improve their game. Instead of learning mainly through practice (which could take years) or the study of the games of Masters (difficult and easily forgotten, trying reverse engineering on things one does not understand), this book presents a toolkit of weapons: essential patterns that are necessary to know in order to play well! What you need to know before reading this book: * How to use algebraic chess notation * The ability to visualize at least 4 plies without a board * Standard tactical devices, such as Counting, Forks, Skewers, Pins What you will learn in this book: * Basic patterns that every player must know * How to improve your game * How to use Opposition and Critical Squares What you will NOT get, and why: * Capablanca: nobody can learn to play well merely from the study of a book, it can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be done by the teacher There is no limit to what is available to a chess student today: you can find gigabytes of books, software, and video - a jungle in which the student can go astray. It is well known that strong players see a position broken down into elementary groups (chunks), each having specific, known characteristics. This is due to the huge number of games they have played, analyzed and retained in memory. As a result, they immediately recognize winning patterns. This book includes NO puzzles, BUT a selection of 101 patterns chosen from among the essential patterns. They need to be engraved in your mind, so that you recognize them immediately (regardless of which side of the board you are on), without any doubt or hesitation. These are all patterns that are essential to know in order to be able to play well. They are not endless lists of moves, which would be impossible to remember, but rather positions that occur frequently, that you can learn to recognize without thinking, the way Masters do. Are all these patterns known? Sure they are, but this is not the point. A GM knows over ten thousand, a CM about 200, but what about you? Can you afford not to know these few key patterns? Novice and intermediate players are the target of this book, class B (1700 rating or less). Periodically going through these patterns will help you avoid losses, win more games, and reduce your thinking time. If only one of these patterns was unknown to you (or you were uncertain what to do when you saw it), your learning time will not be wasted. If already know them all, and have never fallen victim to any of them, then great, play tournaments and enjoy Evelyne Nicod's cat illustrations. New! You can see for free on scacchi.vecchilibri.eu/partite (copy the link to your browser) many related games, with English comments. Follow through and download PGN. Appearance is simple and neat, and diagrams start at the appropriate move. An Internet connection is needed.
