The Great Chess Game

Author : Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093083

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The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski Pdf

Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world. In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the United States, he argues, is to become the sole political arbiter in Eurasian lands and to prevent the emergence of any rival power threatening our material and diplomatic interests. The Eurasian landmass, home to the greatest part of the globe's population, natural resources, and economic activity, is the "grand chessboard" on which America's supremacy will be ratified and challenged in the years to come. In this landmark work of public policy and political science, Brzezinski outlines a groundbreaking and powerful blueprint for America's vital interests in the modern world. In this revised edition, Brzezinski addresses recent global developments including the war in Ukraine, the re-emergence of Russia, and the rise of China.

Author : Wesley So,Michael Adams,Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472146212

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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games . by Wesley So,Michael Adams,Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms Pdf

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997 British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph. The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software. This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145 games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.

Author : Igor Stohl
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Graham Burgess
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472146199

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The Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess Pdf

'A terrific work that is particularly suited for those from beginner to club player' JOHN WATSON, The Week in Chess The fully revised and updated award-winning, bestselling, classic chess book by FIDE Master and chess world-record holder, Graham Burgess. Comprehensive and clear, this fully revised and updated fourth edition of Graham Burgess's bestselling chess classic is an invaluable guide to help any player progress to good club level and better. It provides a complete guide to the main chess openings along with hundreds of test positions for players at every level. This new edition includes: Expanded and updated sections on playing online chess and using computers. A complete and detailed guide to all the main chess openings. Hundreds of new training exercises for players of all standards. Courses in tactics, attacking strategy, combinations and endgames. Analysis of some of the greatest games ever played. Information and advice on club, national, and international tournaments. A comprehensive A-Z glossary of chess terminology. Practical advice and information for further study. New sections on endgame studies and problems, with all examples from 2020 or 2021.

Author : Alexander Alekhine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486271048

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107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945 by Alexander Alekhine Pdf

One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Keres, Reshevsky, others. Included are many of Alekhine's own games, plus candid commentary on fellow masters, rivals.

Author : Igor Stohl
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Reuben Fine
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Games
ISBN : 4871875326

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The World's Great Chess Games by Reuben Fine Pdf

Modern chess began in 1851 in the London Tournament of the Crystal Palace Exposition. Today, the principles of winning play have been explored and codified: a beginner can learn more about chess in one year, than a master learned a century ago during his entire career. This book is the first detailed presentation, by a Grand Master, of a complete analysis of the world's best games. For all who are interested in the fine points, the author has selected the most notable examples of brilliant play and strategy, the attack and the defense. Among the masters whose best games are to be found in the work are: Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Euwe, Lasker, Marshall. Morphy, Rubinstein, Steinitz. Tarrasch, Tartakower, and many, many others. Reuben Fine had not taken chess seriously until late high school days. Yet he became a Grand \faster at the age of twenty-one, and was dual winner of the great AVRO Tournament of 1938. Dr. Fine was officially ranked - on the basis of twenty years of tournament play - as the Number 1 player of the United States, and a Challenger for the World Championship. Dr. Fine taught psychology at the College of the City of New York and at Brooklyn College. He and his family lived in New York City, where he practiced psychoanalysis.

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1857445872

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Chess Duels by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters-both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chess players of the last 50 years. --

Author : Reuben Fine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Chess
ISBN : UCSC:32106000780061

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The World's Great Chess Games by Reuben Fine Pdf

Author : Winner Torborg
Publisher : Ross Jeffryes
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442173743

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The Great Chess Game by Winner Torborg Pdf

Revised. Since the creation of man the game of chess has been played in one form or another. There have always been two sides, the side of good (God's team) and the side of evil, not good (the devil's team). God and the devil have been "playing a chess tournament" ever since God created the first man and the Lucifer went sour. In this book you can see how to be a better chess piece for the Lord's team, whether you are a pawn or a queen.

Author : Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Games
ISBN : 0786714115

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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms Pdf

This new and expanded edition contains the 112 greatest chess games of all time--selected, analyzed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with more than 900 diagrams.

Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : PSU:000047060982

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The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked by Andy 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 : Johann Jacob Löwenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000054218

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Morphy's Games of Chess by Johann Jacob Löwenthal Pdf

Author : Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0762439955

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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games by Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms Pdf

Over 120 of the greatest chess games of all time, selected, analyzed, re-evaluated, and explained by a team of experts and illustrated with over 1,000 diagrams. Study the games to learn: how to attack; defense and counterattack; psychological warfare; how great players think; and much more.