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Book The Game of Chess

Download or read book The Game of Chess written by Siegbert Tarrasch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic introduction offers superb coverage of all aspects, especially Middle Game, combination play. Hundreds of games analyzed. Over 340 diagrams.

Book The Immortal Game

Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain. Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. Here, bestselling author David Shenk chronicles its intriguing saga, from ancient Persia to medieval Europe to the dens of Benjamin Franklin and Norman Schwarzkopf. Along the way, he examines a single legendary game that took place in London in 1851 between two masters of the time, and relays his own attempts to become as skilled as his Polish ancestor Samuel Rosenthal, a nineteenth-century champion. With its blend of cultural history and Shenk’s lively personal narrative, The Immortal Game is a compelling guide for novices and aficionados alike.

Book The Immortal Game

Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy.In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed, as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may be for individuals what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter.

Book The Art of the Game of Chess

Download or read book The Art of the Game of Chess written by Ruy López and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Game of Chess is the first English translation of Fr. Ruy López’s 1561 book about chess, Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez. López was a priest who served as King Philip II’s confessor and royal advisor. As a connoisseur of chess, King Philip II promoted the game in his court, and it did not take long for López to become known as Spain’s and one of Europe’s greatest chess players. López is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential chess thinkers of all time whose theories of chess are an integral part of how chess is played today. Academics, including historians, linguists, sociologists, and Hispanists, as well as non-academics, especially chess enthusiasts, will appreciate this translation, which opens with a Foreword by Andrew Soltis, who is a Grandmaster and a United States Chess Hall of Fame Inductee, and includes a critical introduction and more than 275 footnotes.

Book LOGICAL CHESS

Download or read book LOGICAL CHESS written by Irving Chernev and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1971-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.

Book Chess 101

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  • Author : David P. Schloss
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780962923074
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Chess 101 written by David P. Schloss and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to play chess involves more than just knowing how to move the pieces. Chess 101 is a chess book for beginners that provides comprehensive chess training about everything a new player needs to know.This beginner chess book covers the following topics: Types of boards and piecesHow to set up the boardThe value of the piecesHow the pieces move, including castling and en passant How to write chess notationThe three phases of the game of chessHow to study chessWhat a chess rating is and how to get oneChess clock rulesAn overview of faster chess gamesThe mechanics of a tournamentRules and etiquetteTips to winning chess Chess 101 also contains over two dozen exhibits designed to help you learn to play chess with ease!

Book Game Changer

Download or read book Game Changer written by Matthew Sadler and published by New In Chess,Csi. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story behind the self-learning artificial intelligence system with its stunning chess skills

Book A Game at Chess

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  • Author : Thomas Middleton
  • Publisher : Hill & Wang
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book A Game at Chess written by Thomas Middleton and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1966 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Game of Chess

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  • Author : Marco Girolamo Vida
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book The Game of Chess written by Marco Girolamo Vida and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Game of Chess

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  • Author : Siegbert Tarrasch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book The Game of Chess written by Siegbert Tarrasch and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Learn to master the game of chess

Download or read book Learn to master the game of chess written by J.C. Grenon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginners to chess masters. Learn to master the chess game and win against the chess game software of top level. This chess game book contains all the chess game rules with the technical and tactical considerations and full of diagrams in order to illustrate the chess game rules; also guess 40 checkmate tests with diagrams (5 moves or less) + 40 quick winning chess + 46 winning chess in playing the sicilian defense and 160 winning chess with the black pieces. In order to win against the chess chess game software of top level, you must do many sacrifices; without that, it's almost impossible to win against. Look at these winning chess against the chess game software of top level and you will understand that reality ! The author, J.C. Grenon is the winner of 809 chess against the chess game software of top level; 428 with the white pieces and 381 with the black pieces. At the chess game, the russian empire is on the wane!

Book The Art of the Game of Chess

Download or read book The Art of the Game of Chess written by Ruy López de Segura and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chess Made Easy

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  • Author : Benjamin Franklin
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9781295726677
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Chess Made Easy written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Chess Made Easy: New And Comprehensive Rules For Playing The Game Of Chess; With Examples From Philidor, Cunningham, &c, &c. To Which Is Prefixed A Pleasing Account Of Its Origin; Some Interesting Anecdotes Of Several Exalted Personages, Who Have Been Admirers Of It; And The Morals Of Chess Benjamin Franklin Printed for J. Harris & son, 1820 Games; Chess; Games / Chess

Book A Treatise on the Game of Chess

Download or read book A Treatise on the Game of Chess written by J. H. Sarratt and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short History of the Game Of Chess

Download or read book A Short History of the Game Of Chess written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess has been a favored game for almost fifteen hundred years of human history. From its rise in India, the history of chess has been one of continual growth. A Short History of the Game Of Chess recounts a brief history of this much loved game. chess, history

Book The Personality of Chess

Download or read book The Personality of Chess written by I. a. Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the game of kings, chess now intrigues, fascinates, and experates millions of enthusiasts from all walks of life. What is it in the nature of this unique game that has appealed to so many people for so many centuries? What does this game mean for those who play in, and why does it interest even those who do not? Here are the answers in brilliant book that explains chess as a social, psychological, historical and dramatic phenomenon. Filled with unexpected humor and written in a language anyone can understand, The Personality of chess offers a vast amount of little known facts about the game, some in refutation of popular misconceptions, others boldly treading unexplored areas. Is there a correlation between skill in chess and general intelligence? Does skill in chess reflect proficiency in other fields? Are masters of the game like other men - or do they possess other special mental and emotional kinks? What accounts for the durability of the game? Chess players will find many hitherto unrelated areas fully explored, along with further information on aspects of the game that have received only cursory attention up until now. The general reading will find an entertaining, highly readable profile of one of the most extra ordinary games ever invented by man.

Book The Last Chess Game Or How to Be a Winner

Download or read book The Last Chess Game Or How to Be a Winner written by Ralph Hornberger and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Chess Game or How To Be A Winner is a fictional game of chess incorporating God's salvation plan. It reveals the way God enables us to be victorious in both life and death. The game is annotated. Also included are two fictional short stories written by students.