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Book The Golden Treasury of Chess

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Chess written by Francis J. Wellmuth and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Treasury of Chess is one of the most popular and most often reprinted and revised chess books ever created. It is filled with hundreds of the most thrilling, exciting and surprising chess games ever played. It also includes articles about chess history and stories about how these great games came to be played. It has also become one of the most controversial chess books ever written. The controversy arises over the question of who is the true author of the work. This controversy is explained by Chess Historian Edward Winter in his column "Chess Notes," in an article entitled "The Horowitz-Wellmuth Affair."

Book The Golden Treasury of Chess

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Chess written by Francis J. Wellmuth and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Treasury of Chess  Compiled by the Editors of  Chess Review

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Chess Compiled by the Editors of Chess Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF CHESS

Download or read book THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF CHESS written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse written by William Stanley Braithwaite and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The selections in this book are gathered from American magazines, during the period from 1905 to 1917, which embrace the editor's studies and summaries of contemporary poetry that have appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript"--Foreword.

Book The Golden Treasury of English Poetry

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of English Poetry written by Charles Hains Gunn and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Treasury of Chess Lore

Download or read book The Treasury of Chess Lore written by Fred Reinfeld and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1951-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell  1834

Download or read book De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell 1834 written by Cary Utterberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting of Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell at London's Westminster Chess Club in 1834 was notable for a number of reasons. Hard-earned reputations were zealously protected, and masters of equal standing had seldom faced each other on even terms. The chess world was watching closely, but it was the actions of spectator William Greenwood Walker, who recorded each move of the 85 games, that has had the greatest impact. This recording and publication of game scores from a series of matches between masters was a first in chess history: The event gave birth to modern chess theory. Once based upon composed exercises studied in isolation, theory now became concrete and measurable. Practice replaced contrivance, and tactics could be studied and honed in light of the avalanche of match records that followed. McDonnell and de la Bourdonnais played six matches in 1834. This book offers biographies of the two and illuminates their times--and then the 85 games are analyzed using modern theory; there are numerous diagrams and previously published commentary. The merits of the openings, middle- and endgame maneuvers of the two are weighed. Nine appendices present selected games against other opponents; excerpt a contemporary account of the games' ambience; provide other interesting documents; present several statistics; and provide a schematic of mistakes made by both contestants. Bibliography, notes, indexes.

Book The Golden Treasury of Poetry

Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Poetry written by Louis Untermeyer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ultimate Pirc

Download or read book The Ultimate Pirc written by John Nunn and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirc is a modern chess opening whose unbalanced nature usually leads to eventful play and a decisive outcome. A perfect complement to John Nunn's earlier work, The Complete Pirc, a guide to pawn structures and their importance in forming and executing plans. Expert

Book Cheryl Day s Treasury of Southern Baking

Download or read book Cheryl Day s Treasury of Southern Baking written by Cheryl Day and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and comprehensive Southern baking book from one of the South’s best and most respected bakers, Cheryl Day.

Book The Art of the Blues

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  • Author : Bill Dahl
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 022639669X
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Blues written by Bill Dahl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this unique sound has been just as varied and dynamic. There is no better guide to this fascinating graphical world than Bill Dahl—a longtime music journalist and historian who has written liner notes for countless reissues of classic blues, soul, R&B, and rock albums. With his deep knowledge and incisive commentary—complementing more than three hundred and fifty lavishly reproduced images—the history of the blues comes musically and visually to life. What will astonish readers who thumb through these pages is the amazing range of ways that the blues have been represented—whether via album covers, posters, flyers, 78 rpm labels, advertising, or other promotional materials. We see the blues as it was first visually captured in the highly colorful sheet music covers of the early twentieth century. We see striking and hard-to-find label designs from labels big (Columbia) and small (Rhumboogie). We see William Alexander’s humorous artwork on postwar Miltone Records; the cherished ephemera of concert and movie posters; and Chess Records’ iconic early albums designed by Don Bronstein, which would set a new standard for modern album cover design. What these images collectively portray is the evolution of a distinctively American art form. And they do so in the richest way imaginable. The result is a sumptuous book, a visual treasury as alive in spirit as the music it so vibrantly captures.

Book The Art of Chess

Download or read book The Art of Chess written by James Mason and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely unabridged reprinting of the last revised edition of the most famous general study of chess ever written. Prepared by an early twentieth-century master, it was designed to teach the beginner and the intermediate player just about everything he needed to know about openings, middle game, and end game. It has never been superseded as the most practical and easily followed book of its sort. It is unusual in presenting both ideas and actual moves (taken from master play) in the most easily assimilated form. Revised and brought up to date by Fred Reinfeld and Sidney Bernstein, this book explains and makes easy for you more than 90 different openings, ranging from the classical Ruy Lopez up to the work of Alekhine, Reti, Nimzovich, and others. Combinations are analyzed and presented so clearly (yet without sacrificing depth) that you will soon find yourself seeing moves ahead more clearly than you did before. You will learn how to plan your game with a purpose, how to attack, sacrifice, defend, exchange, and govern your general strategy. Endings are also thoroughly covered. All in all, there is not an aspect of practical chess that is not treated, and there is hardly a player living below the rank of grandmaster who could not profit form Mason's work. If you follow Mason's exposition thoroughly, you will probably obtain as much knowledge of chess as you could short of making chess a full-time study for years. Bound in with Mason's Art of Chess is an entirely new booklet by Fred Reinfeld, How Do You Play Chess? In this booklet, Mr. Reinfeld uses lively questions and answers to tell novices of the basic fundamentals of the game.

Book A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands

Download or read book A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sorghaghtani of Mongolia

Download or read book Sorghaghtani of Mongolia written by Shirin Yim Bridges and published by Goosebottom Books. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the wind-swept steppes of Mongolia in the thirteenth century, a princess was given the chance to rule. She took lands that had been ruined by war and made them wealthy again, brought mutual respect and cooperation to a downtrodden and distrustful people, and in a battle of wits that was like a giant chess game, won for her sons the imperial throne. This is the story of Sorghaghtani, a real and remarkable princess who handed her sons the largest empire in the world. Richly illustrated and narrated with humor, The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses brings to life the stories of real and remarkable princesses who managed to do what few thought possible.

Book Chess Openings Theory and Practice

Download or read book Chess Openings Theory and Practice written by I. A. Horowitz and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speaking for myself and for players of my strength, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice is the greatest aid I have ever seen for preparing for a tournament. Speaking for all other players, the book is a "must." Current thinking on all important lines is meticulously presented, offering myriad, clear-cut ideas a completely new and effective arsenal of weapons. "-Samuel Reshevsky, United States Open Champion." Chess Openings Theory and Practice is a remarkable book, unequaled by any book of that era or since. It is not a mere openings book with long columns of moves followed at the end by punctuation marks such as + -- or =. It presents opening ideas and games, often including the first game where each opening was played, plus the history of the opening, the names of famous players who played this opening and the ideas and plans on which the opening is based. It provides "idea variations." These are variations that may not actually occur in actual practice, but are what you would play if given the chance. No other book does that, at least not in English and not to this extent.