Predator At The Chessboard

Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781430308003

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Predator at the Chessboard by Ward Farnsworth Pdf

Chess tactics explained in English: the website www.chesstactics.org in book form. This volume is the first in a two-part set. The two books together contain over a thousand examples organized in unprecedented detail. Every position is accompanied by a commentary describing a train of thought that leads to the solution; these books thus are the ideal learning tool for those who prefer explanations in words to long strings of notation. This first volume provides an introduction to tactics and explains forks and discovered attacks. (Book II covers pins and skewers, removal of the guard, and mating patterns.) A hardcover version is also available.

Author : Jakov Neishstadt
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Games
ISBN : 9789056914806

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Improve Your Chess Tactics by Jakov Neishstadt Pdf

The best advice for chess players who want to improve quickly is: get better at tactics! Simply because the vast majority of amateur games is decided through tactics you will immediately start beating more opponents when you improve your tactical skills. Experienced Russian Grandmaster Jakov Neishtadt has selected those examples from the games of masters that have the biggest instructional value for club players. In the first part of the book Neishstadt teaches a systematic course on the most important tactical themes. The second part consist of an exam with hundreds of tests from real-life chess, in random order so as not to give unwelcome hints on how to solve them. The solutions are not just lists of moves, but include instructive prose.

Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781567923858

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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth Pdf

Ward Farnsworth details the timeless principles of rhetoric that have held good from Ancient Greece to the present day, drawing on examples in the English language of consummate masters of prose, such as Lincoln, Churchill, Dickens, Melville, Burke & Pain.

Author : Samuel R. Watkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443429047

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Company Aytch by Samuel R. Watkins Pdf

Company Aytch; Or, a Side Show of the Big Show is the personal memoir of American Civil War veteran Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins. Often heralded as one of the most reliable and informative primary sources on the Civil War, Watkins describes his experiences during his service as an infantryman in the Confederate Army. In the early days of the war, Watkins enlisted in the Tennessee Infantry and served through the duration of the conflict, participating in many battles, including ones in Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Nashville. Profoundly, Watkins was one of only sixty-five men from the First Tennessee infantry, which recruited over three thousand men, to survive the war. Widely studied by Civil War historians, Company Aytch is valued for its portrayal of the experience of the common soldier. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Dan Heisman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781936490141

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Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman Pdf

Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499861235

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Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith Pdf

The second Hector Cross thriller The second Hector Cross thriller 'The stench of death follows you, Hector Cross. You are as loathsome as the black hyena. I curse you to your grave, and I shall spit upon it when at last they lay you in it" It's like a nightmare but he's wide awake... When Hector Cross' pregnant wife is shot, he believes the terrorists who nearly destroyed his life have returned to finish the job when he now has so much more to lose. But as he follows the trail across the globe and right back home to London, a new more terrifying battle begins. For there are worse things in Cross' world than terrorist kidnappers, and those evils are set on obliterating everything Cross holds most dear. Can he save those he loves -- or will he pay the ultimate price for someone else's mistakes?

Author : Dan Heisman
Publisher : Gloucester Publishers Plc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1857446496

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A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman Pdf

This book features the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess column Novice Nook and is full of valuable instruction, insight and practical advice on a wide range of key chess subjects.

Author : Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780671795023

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Chess Thinking by Bruce Pandolfini Pdf

A first-of-its-kind encyclopedia for chess players, this volume features detailed explanations and invaluable illustrations for new chess players, those intent on improving their games, and anyone who needs to brush up on both the basics and more advanced play. 140 detailed illustrations.

Author : Dima Novak
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798494351074

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Pushing Pawns by Dima Novak Pdf

Urban high school kid Moses Middleton hoped that organizing a chess club could be a ticket out of mediocrity, but everything goes pear-shaped after a disastrous tournament. That's when he meets Viktor, a mad Russian grandmaster who agrees to coach the team by revealing the secrets of Soviet chess. Together with his crew -- charismatic psychopath P.D. Morales, gifted violinist and expert fencer Esther Toussaint, shy anime fan Maggie Wang, and the new boy, Albanian chess wizard Zamir Hoxha -- Moses vows to take the world of New York City scholastic chess by storm. But trouble's on the way, in the form of neighborhood bullies, a vengeful vice principal, racist gentrifiers, the snooty rich kids from Galton Prep, and, worst of all, a sexual predator who could destroy a young woman's life and the team's newfound solidarity.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593310854

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781849941556

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100 Chess Master Trade Secrets by Andrew Soltis Pdf

If you want to become a chess master, there are certain things you need to know – essential tips and techniques that the masters know, and you need to learn. This incredibly useful book collects all these techniques together in one volume, so you can try them out, tick them off, and start on your path towards chess greatness. Arranged in chapters covering every aspect of chess, from openings to endgames, renowned chess author Andrew Soltis provides top 20 rundowns of these specific positions and techniques: chapters include Top 20 Sacrifices, Top 20 Crucial Middlegame Decisions, Top 20 Endgame Techniques and Top 20 Exact Endgames. Written in Andrew Soltis's eternally engaging and accessible style, this book will prove invaluable to any player who wants to become a chess master.

Author : Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470519462

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An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems by Michael Wooldridge Pdf

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as software programs or robots. Their interactions can either be cooperative (for example as in an ant colony) or selfish (as in a free market economy). This book assumes only basic knowledge of algorithms and discrete maths, both of which are taught as standard in the first or second year of computer science degree programmes. A basic knowledge of artificial intelligence would useful to help understand some of the issues, but is not essential. The book’s main aims are: To introduce the student to the concept of agents and multi-agent systems, and the main applications for which they are appropriate To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of intelligent agents To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of a multi-agent society To introduce a number of typical applications for agent technology After reading the book the student should understand: The notion of an agent, how agents are distinct from other software paradigms (e.g. objects) and the characteristics of applications that lend themselves to agent-oriented software The key issues associated with constructing agents capable of intelligent autonomous action and the main approaches taken to developing such agents The key issues in designing societies of agents that can effectively cooperate in order to solve problems, including an understanding of the key types of multi-agent interactions possible in such systems The main application areas of agent-based systems

Author : Vernon Rylands Parton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716190452

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The Chess World of V.R.Parton by Vernon Rylands Parton Pdf

Author : Lisa O'Donnell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446492840

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The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell Pdf

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013 Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved. Marnie and her little sister Nelly have always been different. Marnie leads a life of smoking, drinking and drugs; Nelly enjoys playing the violin, eating cornflakes with Coke and reading Harry Potter. But on Christmas Eve, the sisters have to join forces and put their differences aside. And when Lennie, the old guy next door, starts to get suspicious, it’s only a matter of time before their terrible secret is discovered.

Author : RuNyx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087945429

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The Emperor by RuNyx Pdf

Dante Maroni, the heir to an underworld empire, and Amara, his housekeeper's daughter, find themselves entangled in a story that begins with unrequited childhood infatuation and grows into a tale of forbidden love, trauma, and power.