Play Like A Grandmaster

Author : A.A. Kotov
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781849941709

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Play Like a Grandmaster by A.A. Kotov Pdf

Alexander Kotov's trilogy, of which this is the second volume and now available in digital format for the first time, marks a landmark in chess literature. For the first time, a leading player managed to tackle the important elements of chess mastery in a methodical way which all chess players could understand, spiced with insight and colourful observation. Furthermore, his ideas and approach are as relevant to players today as they were when the books were first published. Alexander Kotov was one of the strongest players of the immediate post-war period, twice reaching the Candidates stage of the World Championship. He was also one of the leading Soviet trainers but is primarily remembered for his trilogy of classic works on chess coaching, of which Think Like a Grandmaster, one of the best-selling chess books of all time, was the first volume, and Play Like a Grandmaster the second.

Author : A.A. Kotov
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781849940535

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Think Like a Grandmaster by A.A. Kotov Pdf

This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.

Author : Alexander Kotov
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Chess
ISBN : 0713431601

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Think Like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov Pdf

Author : Patrick Wolff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781465492234

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Learn to Play Chess Like a Boss by Patrick Wolff Pdf

Stop playing like a pawn and start playing like the king You already know just how enjoyable--and and challenging--the game of chess can be. For those who play, chess leads to a lifetime of fun. But how do you make the first move to learn the rules and transform from a pawn to a king? The path to a perfect checkmate is in your hands! In the pages of this book, you'll find an introduction to all the chess pieces including their strengths and weaknesses, tips on how to protect your pieces and prevent their capture, and guidance on when to attack and defend like a boss. You'll also find a bonus tear-out card to take your new tactics on the go!

Author : Jennifer Shahade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936277034

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Play Like a Girl! by Jennifer Shahade Pdf

A collection of tactical positions from the world's best women chessplayers. Chess lovers of all levels can enjoy the puzzles, as the difficulty goes all the way from one-move killer blows to deep, complex combinations.

Author : Aleksandr Kotov
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 0713436093

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Train Like a Grandmaster by Aleksandr Kotov Pdf

A look at the way in which grandmasters prepare for different aspects of the game and how Soviet training methods can help club or tournament players whatever their standard. Kotov, a Grandmaster, is also the author of Think Like a Grandmaster and Play Like a Grandmaster.

Author : Daniel Naroditsky
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056915605

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Mastering Positional Chess by Daniel Naroditsky Pdf

Mastering Positional Chess is a serious, but entertaining chess instruction book. Daniel started writing it when he realized that his lack of positional understanding was causing him to lose many games.

Author : Brin-Jonathan Butler
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781501172618

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The Grandmaster by Brin-Jonathan Butler Pdf

“A bravura performance…An entertaining book” (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport. The first week of November 2016, hundreds of people descended on New York City’s South Street Seaport to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin. By the time it was over would be front-page news and thought by many the greatest finish in chess history. With both Carlsen and Karjakin just twenty-five years old, it was the first time the championship had been waged among those who grew up playing chess against computers. Originally from Crimea, Karjakin had recently repatriated to Russia under the direct assistance of Putin. Carlsen, meanwhile, had expressed admiration for Donald Trump, and the first move of the tournament he played was called a Trompowsky Attack. Then there was the Russian leader of the World Chess Federation being barred from attending due to US sanctions, and chess fanatic and Trump adviser Peter Thiel being called on to make the honorary first move in sudden death. That the tournament even required sudden death was a shock. Oddsmakers had given Carlsen, the defending champion, an eighty percent chance of winning. It would take everything he had to retain his title. Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament and watched every move. The Grandmaster “is not the usual chronicle of a world-championship chess match….Butler offers insight into what it takes to become the best chess player on the planet...A vibrant and provocative look at chess and its metaphorical battle for territory and power” (Booklist).

Author : Daniel Gormally
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781849940962

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Calculate Like a Grandmaster by Daniel Gormally Pdf

• Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players • First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars • Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games This first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that are renowned as 'attacking' players, from Mikhail Tal, pioneering hero of the ultra-modern attacking style, to Magnus Carlsen, teenage leader of the 'new wave' of deadly attackers, via the immortal Bobby Fischer, 'boa constrictor' Anatoly Karpov and 'King Garry' Kasparov. The author has tried to get into the heads of these stellar players, revealing the secrets of how they choose their decisive moves and succeed in delivering such awesome attacks. This inspiring book encourages you to play more imaginatively and copy the grandmasters' thought processes in your own game.

Author : Aleksandr Kotov
Publisher : B T Batsford Limited
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0713418079

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Play Like a Grandmaster by Aleksandr Kotov Pdf

This book follows on from Kotov's previous work Think Like a Grandmaster. It is a guide to chess-playing for the amateur player. The book covers positional judgement, planning, combinational vision and calculation and practical play - each with many examples.

Author : Jacob Aagaard
Publisher : Grandmaster Preparation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1907982264

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Positional Play by Jacob Aagaard Pdf

Have there been times during a game when you have tried to calculate like mad, but can find no rhyme or reason to your lines? Have you ever felt that the computer's suggestions in your post-mortem analysis make no sense to you? Ever felt like the man with a hammer, suspecting that the world may not be made up entirely of nails after all?In Positional Play Jacob Aagaard shares his simple three-step tool of positional analysis that he has used with club players and famous grandmasters to improve their positional decision-making. Working from the starting point that all players who aspire to play at international level have a certain amount of positional understanding, Aagaard lays out an easy-to-follow training plan that will improve everyone's intuition and positional decision-making.

Author : Valeri Bronznik
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Games
ISBN : 9789056914738

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Techniques of Positional Play by Valeri Bronznik Pdf

Opening preparation is useful, but understanding the middlegame is much more important. This book, an improved edition of a Russian classic, teaches amateur chess players 45 extremely effective skills in a crystal-clear manner. Quite a few of the ideas presented here will surprise the reader, because they offer solutions for problems the club player is only subconsciously aware. How do you activate your rook pawn? How do you prevent your opponent from opening a file? How do you restrict the efficacy of your opponents pieces? Which rook belongs on the c-, d- or e-file? What is the best way to exchange a piece? How do you castle artificially? In most cases the techniques are easy to understand and memorize. Bronznik and Terekhin do not burden the reader with deep analysis and only present those variations that are really necessary to get the point. There is a special training section at the end of the book where you can test your skills.

Author : Jurgen Kaufeld,Guido Kern
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : Games
ISBN : 9789056915322

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Grandmaster Chess Strategy by Jurgen Kaufeld,Guido Kern Pdf

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings. Kaufeld and Kern have selected 80 of Andersson’s games and grouped them into 15 thematic strategy lessons, pinpointing exactly how the Swede made the difference in each case. Their instructive verbal explanations will improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling. Every chess player knows how difficult it can be to convert an advantage into a win. Positional technique is what you need and Grandmaster Chess Strategy teaches you exactly that. Throughout the book the authors have selected dozens of test positions at particularly instructive stages of the games.

Author : Vincent Moret
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056916343

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My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Vincent Moret Pdf

Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play. But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Trying to win in 20 moves, copying what's in fashion among top-GM's or memorizing variations are a waste of time. Most likely you will never play your ‘preparation' or end up by jumping from one opening to the other. Experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for White with a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginning players and other amateurs. In this complete and user-friendly guide, Moret has selected relatively aggressive variations that will enhance your tactical vision. To show the typical plans and demonstrate underlying ideas and key motifs, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. For instructional purposes, he also uses games of young players to highlight the errors they tend to make.

Author : Susan Polgar,Douglas Goldstein
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781630470982

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Rich as a King by Susan Polgar,Douglas Goldstein Pdf

A chess grandmaster and a certified financial planner show readers how to approach investing like a chess player, and how to gain financial freedom. Discover how you can apply the strategies of chess to manage your money better. World Chess Champion Grandmaster Susan Polgar and international investment advisor Douglas Goldstein, CFP, share practical examples and never-before-heard stories from the chess, and show you: · What is holding you back from financial freedom · How to apply the strategies that Susan Polgar used to win 10 Olympic medals to managing your money · The 64 strategies that can make you as “Rich as a King!” Praise for Rich As a King “An entertaining, informative, and very interesting treatment of investment strategy, tactics, and wisdom.”—Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Laureate, Economics, 2001 “Goldstein and Polgar integrate chess and investment strategies in a remarkably entertaining and educational fashion. Chess players who know little about investing and investors who know little about chess will gain fresh insights into both.”—Ken Rogoff, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund; professor, Economics Department, Harvard University; chess grandmaster “A treasure trove of financial tips, brilliantly weaving together the strategic thinking of a chess master with the practical advice of an experienced financial analyst.”—Doug Shadel, PhD; AARP financial fraud expert and author of Outsmarting the Scam Artists “This fast-moving, enjoyable book shows you how to think better, make better decisions, and achieve your long-term goals of “financial victory” with great certainty.”—Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Million Dollar Habits