Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces

Author : Igor Stohl
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Chess
ISBN : LCCN:b66020037

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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Modern Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev Pdf

Author : Igor Stohl
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015069377086

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Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games by Igor Stohl Pdf

Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected the best and most instructive games from Kasparov's later years, and annotated them in great detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves. Stohl provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points. This makes the book outstanding study material for all chess enthusiasts. Garry Kasparov was born in 1963, and burst onto the scene in the late 1970s with a series of astonishing results in Soviet and international events. In 1985 he became the youngest world champion in history by defeating Anatoly Karpov in an epic struggle. When he announced his retirement from professional chess twenty years later, he was still world number 1. Kasparov is an internationally renowned figure, famous even among the non-chess-playing public.

Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Chess
ISBN : PSU:000049782196

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Colle's Chess Masterpieces by Fred Reinfeld Pdf

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486273024

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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev Pdf

Over 60 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning, featuring games by the greatest chess masters — Capablanca, Tarrasch, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, others. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagramed in the clearest possible manner for players of every level of skill. 146 illustrations.

Author : Nick de Firmian
Publisher : Random House Puzzles & Games
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780812936827

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Modern Chess Openings, 15th Edition by Nick de Firmian Pdf

Modern Chess Openings is the best and most trusted tool for serious chess players on the market. First published over a half-century ago, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the book that has been the standard English language reference on chess openings. An invaluable resource for club and tournament players, it now includes information on recent matches and the most up-to-date theory on chess openings. Modern Chess Openings is ideal for intermediate players ready to elevate their game to the next level or International Grandmasters who want to stay on top of recent chess innovations.

Author : Ludek Pachman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486135700

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Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman Pdf

The use of the queen, the active king, exchanges, pawn play, the center, weak squares, more. Often considered the most important book on strategy. 298 diagrams.

Author : Israel Gelfer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486316796

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Positional Chess Handbook by Israel Gelfer Pdf

Learn to develop a more powerful strategic game. Key squares, bad bishops, pawn structures, other examples appear in ascending difficulty, with cross-references. For players at every level. 495 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Alexander Alekhine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486249414

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My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine Pdf

The best games of one of the best players in chess history. 220 games with Alekhine's own accounts. Spans 30 years of tournament play.

Author : Mihai Suba
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056914592

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Dynamic Chess Strategy by Mihai Suba Pdf

In this enlarged edition of a modern classic (first published in 1991) on the battle of chess ideas, grandmaster Mihai Suba developed the concept of ?dynamic potential? in modern chess strategy. In improving your position on the board the old strategy principles often lead to conflicting conclusions. Suba takes another view on the meaning of, for example, ?bad positions? and ?quiet moves?, and uses a light touch to explain his ideas. With many entertaining and instructive examples the author explores ?the accumulation of potential? as the modern way to get the advantage. A thought-provoking and yet very practical guide.

Author : Edmar Mednis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chess
ISBN : 0812934741

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How to Play Good Opening Moves by Edmar Mednis Pdf

How to choose opening moves based on their quality,and logic.,.

Author : Joshua Doknjas
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781945421

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Opening Repertoire: The Ruy Lopez by Joshua Doknjas Pdf

The Ruy Lopez is perhaps the most classical of all chess openings. It dates back to the 16th century and has featured in the opening repertoire of every modern world champion. It is a highly flexible variation: Bobby Fischer used it to create numerous powerful strategic masterpieces. In the hands of Anatoly Karpov it led to many of his trademark positional squeezes, whereas Garry Kasparov often used it as a springboard for his typically powerful attacks. Opening Repertoire: The Ruy Lopez is a modern examination of this perennial favourite. Joshua Doknjas has put together a repertoire for White based firmly around contemporary trends in the Lopez. He examines all aspects of this highly complex opening and provides the reader with well-researched, fresh, and innovative analysis. Each annotated game has valuable lessons on how to play the opening and contains instructive commentary on typical middlegame plans. * A complete repertoire for White in the Ruy Lopez. * A question and answer approach provides an excellent study method.

Author : Garry Kasparov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781596918276

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How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov Pdf

Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history. With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.

Author : Frisco Del Rosario
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781412039062

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A First Book of Morphy by Frisco Del Rosario Pdf

A First Book of Morphy aims to illustrate the teachings of three great chessplayers with games played by the first American chess champion, Paul Morphy. The book presents more than 60 of Morphy's brilliant and instructive games in demonstration of basic chess principles written by grandmasters Reuben Fine and Cecil Purdy.

Author : David LeMoir
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1904600034

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Essential Chess Sacrifices by David LeMoir Pdf

Sacrifices are an essential part of chess. Those who never consider sacrificing will miss countless opportunities and find that promising positions repeatedly slip away. Players who do not appreciate their opponents' sacrificial possibilities will be unable to see danger signs, and find themselves on the wrong end of too many king-hunts. Rather than merely cataloguing the various possibilities and providing examples, LeMoir discusses the possible follow-ups to the sacrifices, the defensive options against them, and the positional factors that might suggest whether the sacrifice will be sound or unsound. There are many important types of chess positions that can only be played well by those who understand the thematic sacrifices that are possible.