Winning Chess Brilliancies

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Games
ISBN : 1857443470

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Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

This book by International Grand Master Yasser Seirawan provides a move-by-move account of the best chess games of the last 25 years, played by the world's foremost chess competitors. With an authoritative voice that is by turns poetic and analytical, Seirawan serves as host of a fascinating excursion of the most brilliant chess game, providing highlights into and explanations of each and every move. Seirawan begins each game with a description of the historical atmosphere of the chess world --and sometimes the world at large--at the time the game was played. When he delves into the game itself, he starts with the reasoning behind the opening moves. From there he provides both a play-by-play description of the game and an analytical commentary, all the while examining the moves in terms of place development and possible tactical and strategic opportunities. Along the way, a handful of the players are profiled in biographies. In Winning Chess Brilliancies readers will get a taste of the most dazzling chess combinations devious strategies, and downright cruel blows as world champions risk it all! This book is truly a celebration of the sport of chess.

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781945148

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Winning Chess Combinations by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow. Winning Chess Combinations is a unique work that doesn't merely repeat the wonderfully rich and vast numbers of combinations, asking readers to solve a particular diagrammed position; it is a work that is far more realistic. A combination involves a sacrifice upsetting the balance of forces, but will it work or tragically boomerang? The reader is invited to solve this critical question by identifying the advantages that a specific position holds which might make the combination successful.

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781857448917

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Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possiblychange the course of a game in a single move. Why play in a fog, only hoping that your opponent will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show you how to put the tactics of the worlds chess legends to work for you. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the cor, x-rays, windmills and many more time-tested tactics.Using classic board situations arranged in chapters by tactical themes, Seirawan teaches you how to: * Plan your entire game from the very first move.Think ahead, step-by-step, anticipating every obstacle your opponent can throw your way * Position yourself for the smashing combination and endgame you've always dreamed of Board positions from actual games played by historys great chess tacticians are provided throughout. Review tests for each topic let you track your improvement. In no time you'll be playing better, with more confidence than you ever thought possible. Errata List

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781857448245

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Winning Chess Openings by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play without having to memorise a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines. * Build a safe house for a King * Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer * Utilise the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure * Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles * Employ a defense for Black against any White Opening * Apply an opening for White used by World Champions Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781944318

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Winning Chess Endings by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

Approach every endgame with a winning strategy! Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. WINNING CHESS ENDINGS is a great one a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with confidence whenever a game goes the distance. You'll learn to prevail time and again in endgames with common and uncommon combinations and pieces. WINNING CHESS ENDINGS teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way: by putting you in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair and watch the world's most exciting chess endings. Then become an endgame master!

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781944325

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Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan Pdf

Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the worlds top chess players! Strategy is the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you'll enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently the way you need to play so you can win every time! Learn to: Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves * Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game * Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move * Position yourself for a winning endgame * Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you'll meet historys greatest chess strategieslearning from them move by move! Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading,WINNING CHESS STRATEGIES is an information packed resource you'll turn to again and again

Author : Yasser Seirawan,Jeremy Silman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Games
ISBN : 1857443314

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Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan,Jeremy Silman Pdf

'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do

Author : Larry Evans
Publisher : Hardinge Simpole Limited
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 0951375741

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Modern Chess Brilliancies by Larry Evans Pdf

Grandmaster Larry Evans is a renowned chess writer and columnist throughout the USA. In this selection of some of the most beautiful and effective chess clashes of the last half century, the emphasis is on tactical acuity.

Author : Carsten Hansen
Publisher : CarstenChess
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening - Selected Brilliancies from Volumes 1-9 by Carsten Hansen Pdf

WINNING FAST IS FUN! This book is a collection of games played by the best players in the world in which either White or Black wins in 15 moves or less either a result of brilliant chess tactics, an accumulation of mistakes or blunders. Through the study of the games in this volume, you will improve your opening play, opening repertoire, strategies and tactical ability. This volume features some of the best games and tactics from the previous nine volumes, one game for each chapter in the previous books. Therefore, this book will provide you with a firework of great games and excellent puzzles to be solved.

Author : Ian Mullen,Moe Moss
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Games
ISBN : 0080371361

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Blunders and Brilliancies by Ian Mullen,Moe Moss Pdf

Offers a selection of situations from actual games which demonstrate missed opportunities, mistakes, coincidences, the use of combinations, and unwarranted resignation

Author : Michael Stean
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486316963

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Simple Chess by Michael Stean Pdf

Written by a Grand Master, this guide isolates basic elements and illustrates them through Master and Grand Master games, breaking down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas.

Author : Joshua Doknjas
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781781945995

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The AI Revolution in Chess by Joshua Doknjas Pdf

In 2018 DeepMind published the shocking results of their chess-playing artificial intelligence software, AlphaZero. Chess players looked in disbelief and immediately wondered how AI would affect the future of chess. Less than a year later, a whole new wave of chess engines emerged that were based on using neural networks to evaluate positions in a completely new way. This book is about the extraordinary impact that AI has had on modern chess. The games of top chess players since the end of 2018 have reflected the use of these new engines in home analysis. They have significantly developed opening theory as well as the general understanding of middlegame concepts. By analysing these games with the help of neural network engines, FIDE Master Joshua Doknjas discusses numerous exciting ideas and examines areas of chess that had previously been overlooked. With thorough explanations, questions, and exercises, this book provides fascinating material for masters and less experienced players alike.

Author : Simon Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1857446313

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How to Win at Chess - Quickly! by Simon Williams Pdf

Grandmaster Simon Williams examines the typical mistakes players make in the opening and middlegame, and how you should look to exploit them with maximum efficiency.

Author : José Raúl Capablanca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Chess
ISBN : UCBK:C004082174

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My Chess Career by José Raúl Capablanca Pdf

Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 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. --