Chess Lists 2d Ed

Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476618319

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Chess Lists, 2d ed. by Andy Soltis Pdf

The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest—of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts—this second edition of Soltis’s classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser’s delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded—or both.

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476640532

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Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh by Andrew Soltis Pdf

A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476611235

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Soviet Chess 1917äóñ1991 by Andrew Soltis Pdf

This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the devastations of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet–dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.

Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0786482877

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Los Voraces 2019 by Andy Soltis Pdf

The rules of “The Greatest Tournament in Chess History,” the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls—no outside contact of any kind—as the fourteen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money and fame. These geniuses of the game are strange characters—including two Russian world champions solely responsible for article 17.1 of FIDE’s Laws of Chess (the “anti-hair-pull rule”), the Rumanian who speaks a “kind of personal Esperanto, using odds and ends of other languages,” and a possible member of the Russian mafia—and when the tournament begins with the death of the ninth highest rated player in the world, everyone is under suspicion. This fabulous chess novel is full of game scores and diagrams—some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It’s all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect. By the time the tournament has only five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for 2700+ rated grandmasters? This edition is a revision, with illustrations, of a serialized electronic version run by Hanon Russell on ChessCafe from September 2001 to September 2002.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268104

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Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033598890

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Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Boston Public Library Pdf

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476634784

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Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi by Andrew Soltis Pdf

This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the world. More than 200 annotated games are included, along with personal details--many for the first time in English. Mikhail Tal, the roguish, doomed Latvian who changed the way chess players think about attack and sacrifice; Tigran Petrosian, the brilliant, henpecked Armenian whose wife drove him to become the world's best player; Boris Spassky, the prodigy who survived near-starvation and later bouts of melancholia to succeed Petrosian--but is best remembered for losing to Bobby Fischer; and "Evil" Viktor Korchnoi, whose mixture of genius and jealousy helped him eventually surpass his three rivals (but fate denied him the title they achieved: world champion).

Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476613581

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Mikhail Botvinnik by Andy Soltis Pdf

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Josef Stalin, his bitter rivalries, and his doomed effort to create the perfect chess-playing computer program. The book has more than 85 games, 127 diagrams, twelve photographs, a chronology of his life and career, a bibliography, an index of openings, an index of opponents, and a general index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : London, Eng.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10601593

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Index to Current Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : WISC:89098284573

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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Princeton University. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015077801861

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Alphabetical Finding List by Princeton University. Library Pdf

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786474738

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Joseph Henry Blackburne by Tim Harding Pdf

During a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world's top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously, and he continued to perform "blindfold" into his sixties. This first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of the 19th and early 20th centuries presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are fully explored.

Author : Sampson Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : English literature
ISBN : UGA:32108005385631

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An Index to Current Literature by Sampson Low Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Processing Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : PSU:000055584531

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East European Accessions List by Library of Congress. Processing Department Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Chess
ISBN : UVA:X030053069

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Chess Life by Anonim Pdf