100 Awesome Chess Moves

Author : Eric Schiller
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781580425186

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100 Awesome Chess Moves by Eric Schiller Pdf

This collection of brilliant ideas from real tournaments is not just regular combinations or tactical swindles, but moves of stunning originality. Schiller has selected one hundred awesome moves, and through game positions, examples, and clearly explained concepts, shows players how to improve their grasp of deep positional understandings and swashbuckling tactics. You'll learn how to reinforce your gut instincts, to not just reach for the best move, but the inspired one. 288 pages.

Author : Ethan Moore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781440592140

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How To Beat Anyone At Chess by Ethan Moore Pdf

Offers a guide to important chess techniques and principles to help players develop the skills needed to beat opponents, from the basics of play to specific tactics and strategies, as well as a look at the world of competitive chess.

Author : Boroljub Zlatanovic
Publisher : Thinkers Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9492510685

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Fundamental Chess Strategy in 100 Games by Boroljub Zlatanovic Pdf

This book would bring something new into your chess library. In computer era focus is usually on openings. Watching broadcasts new generations rather choose games with favorite opening played seeking for some interesting idea or even brilliant novelty. I offer and recommend different concept, based on famous Soviet chess school. Focus should be on understanding strategy concepts, principles and inner logic. Fashionable opening lines will be forgotten (or re-evaluated) sooner or later, but understanding cannot be lost and can be only upgraded. It is sad to see some player well equipped with opening lines, unable to realize big positional advantage in deep endgame. So, our advice is to learn about Strategy and Logic. The book is highly recommended for club players, advanced players and masters, although even higher rated players can find a lot of useful things for themselves. There is no doubt lower rated players will learn a lot about thinking process and making decisions, while some logical principles can be good advice for strong players also.

Author : Igor Stohl
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1906454086

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Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces by Igor Stohl Pdf

62 brilliant games involving the best players in the world, with notes by one of the top annotators. Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique. Following each game there is a discussion of the most important lessons to be learned. The expanded and revised new edition of this award-winning work features 12 new top-level games from the period 2000-2007 annotated in great depth - about 40% new material. There are also corrections to the existing notes and a revised Introduction.

Author : Josh Waitzkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780684802503

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Attacking Chess by Josh Waitzkin Pdf

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.

Author : Vlastimil Hort,Vlastimil Jansa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Games
ISBN : 4871875903

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The Best Move by Vlastimil Hort,Vlastimil Jansa Pdf

The Best Move is a collection of very hard chess problems based on actual grandmaster games. The reader is asked who has the advantage and why. Points are awarded not only for getting the answer right but for seeing deeply into the position. These problems are based primarily on the games of grandmasters Hort and Jansa. This book was later translated into German with some changes in the diagrams and published in 1982-1984.

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0786427418

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The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked by Andrew Soltis Pdf

How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But "best"? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics (clever and relentless are insufficient qualities); the originality (e.g., not yet another white knight sacrifice in a Sicilian); the level of opposition (the loser played very well); the soundness (i.e., are the moves refutable with perfect play?), accuracy (few of the moves are second-best), and difficulty (the winner overcame major obstacles) of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth (one wants a series of sparkling ideas, with no dry patches). The 100 best games were taken from an initial field of about 7,000 played from 1900 through 1999 that had already gained some attention in magazines, books and periodicals. Three hundred games were then selected that appeared to have features consistent with the criteria. The 300 games were evaluated with scores--points given for each category of criteria. The games were then ranked, one to 100, by the score they received. No attempt was made to balance the selection according to period, nationality of players or opening. Also included is a chapter on the most overrated games of the twentieth century and one on games that would have made the list if... Includes 335 diagrams, an index of players and an index of openings by ECO codes.

Author : Israel Albert Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258461382

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How to Win in the Chess Endings by Israel Albert Horowitz Pdf

Author : Jacob Cantrell
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781580424059

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Basics of Winning Chess by Jacob Cantrell Pdf

Nine, information-packed chapters and twenty-two diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. You'll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation. Cantrell also introduces the basic concepts and strategies of middle and endgame play. Victor Boriskoff says, For a beginner, this is the best chess book on the market! Recommended. 64 pages

Author : Stuart Rachels
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918828

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The Best I Saw in Chess by Stuart Rachels Pdf

At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne. Instead, Rachels pulled off a gigantic upset and became the youngest U.S. Champion since Bobby Fischer. Three years later he retired from competitive chess, but he never stopped following the game. In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories. There are chapters on tactics, endings, blunders, middlegames, cheating incidents, and even on how to combat that rotten opening, the Réti. Rachels offers a complete and entertaining course in chess strategy. At the back are listed 110 principles of play—bits of wisdom that arise naturally in the book’s 24 chapters. Every chess player will find it difficult to put this sparkling book down. As a bonus, it will make you a better player.

Author : Charles Hertan
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918576

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Forcing Chess Moves by Charles Hertan Pdf

WINNER of the ChessCafe 2008 Book of the Year Award SHORTLISTED for The Guardian 2008 Chess Book of the Year Award Why is it that the human brain so often refuses to consider winning chess tactics? Every chess fan marvels at the wonderful combinations with which famous masters win their games. How do they find those fantastic moves? Do they have special vision? And why do computers outwit us tactically? Forcing Chess Moves proposes a revolutionary method for finding winning moves. Charles Hertan has made an astonishing discovery: the failure to consider key moves is often due to human bias. Your brain tends to disregard many winning moves because they are counter-intuitive or look unnatural. It’s a fact of life: computers outdo us humans when it comes to tactical vision and brute force calculation. So why not learn from them? Charles Hertan’s radically different approach is: use COMPUTER EYES and always look for the most forcing move first. By studying forcing sequences according to Hertan’s method you will: Develop analytical precision Improve your tactical vision Overcome human bias and staleness Enjoy the calculation of difficult positions Win more games by recognizing moves that matter. This New and Extended Fourth Edition of Hertan’s award-winning modern classic includes 50 extra pages with new and instructive combinations. There is a foreword by three-time US chess champion Joel Benjamin, and a special foreword to this new edition by Swedish Grandmaster Pontus Carlsson.

Author : Herman Grooten
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056916947

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Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten Pdf

This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’. In this 35-page chapter Grooten adds the final instructive brick to his formidable, yet very accessible, building: inspired by Tigran Petrosian’s playing style he explains amateurs how to exploit small advantages. With a new set of exercises. ---- Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? First find the right plan, then the good moves will follow! With this book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on: how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan His teachings are based on the famous "Elements" of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding: -- pawn structure -- piece placement -- lead in development -- open files -- weaknesses -- space advantage -- king safety -- exploiting small advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises.

Author : Eric Schiller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1580420885

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Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom, 2nd Edition by Eric Schiller Pdf

From opening, middlegame, and endgame strategy, to psychological warfare and tournament tactics, you are taken through the thinking behind each essential concept. Examples, discussions, and diagrams show the full impact on the game's direction. Tons of diagrams, examples, sidebars, and sample games illustrate the concepts, making this book easy-to-read and a joy for players looking to delve deeper into the mysteries of chess and become a better player. Called one of the ten best chess books ever written, readers will learn the thinking and concepts behind every aspect of a chess game. An absolute must for players who love the game of chess. 432 pages

Author : John Emms
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1901983293

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The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time by John Emms Pdf

In this text, John Emms has selected 200 of the best chess moves of all time. In each case, the reader is given the chance to try to find the move, and solutions are provided, with lessons to be learned from each move.

Author : Willy Hendriks
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918804

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On the Origin of Good Moves by Willy Hendriks Pdf

The way a beginner develops into a strong chess player closely resembles the progress of the game of chess itself. This popular idea is the reason why many renowned chess instructors such as former World Champions Garry Kasparov and Max Euwe, emphasize the importance of studying the history of chess. Willy Hendriks agrees that there is much to be learned from the pioneers of our game. He challenges, however, the conventional view on what the stages in the advancement of chess actually have been. Among the various articles of faith that Hendriks questions is Wilhelm Steinitz's reputation as the discoverer of the laws of positional chess. In The Origin of Good Moves Hendriks undertakes a groundbreaking investigative journey into the history of chess. He explains what actually happened, creates fresh perspectives, finds new heroes, and reveals the real driving force behind improvement in chess: evolution. This thought-provoking book is full of beautiful and instructive ‘new’ material from the old days. With plenty of exercises, the reader is invited to put themselves in the shoes of the old masters. Never before has the study of the history of chess been so entertaining and rewarding.