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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. The way to this happiness I have tried to show in this book." — Author's Preface
While there are many chess instruction books available, few have achieved the lofty stature of the present volume. Fewer still have been written by a legendary...
While there are many chess instruction books available, few have achieved the lofty stature of the present volume. Fewer still have been written by a legendary...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginners and even fairly advanced players agree on one thing: analyzing the strength or weakness of a position (material being equal) is the hardest part of chess to learn. It is also one of the hardest elements to teach, and there are some who claim it is unteachable. But this wonderfully lucid book, written by one of the outstanding chess expositors of the twentieth century, presents the basis of analysis in such a disarmingly simple way that even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
How many chess players really know what to do in the end game? More is demanded in this stage of the game than in any other, and the knowledge and imagination that saw you through the opening and middle game are just not enough to carry you through the end game also. You need a thorough knowledge of the principles of chess endings, and this book is an excellent introduction to those principles.
World-famous chess teacher Eugene Znosko-Borovsky...
World-famous chess teacher Eugene Znosko-Borovsky...
24) Queen of Katwe
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
Author
Series
Cedar Cove series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Teri Polgar is settling into her new house on Puget Sound with her new husband, chess champion Bobby Polgar, when a bizarre series of events begins to worry Teri, and cause her husband to risk everything to save her.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As the Great War rages, an independent young woman struggles to sustain love-and life-through the power of words. It's 1917 and America is on the brink of World War I. After Hensley Dench's father is forced to resign from the New York Times for his anti-war writings, she finds herself expelled from the life she loves and the future she thought she would have. Instead, Hensley is transplanted to New Mexico, where her father has taken a job overseeing...
27) The tournament
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Temple and The Great Zoo of China comes a gripping historical thriller featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I thrust into a web of treachery, power, and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire. The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the powerful and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess...
28) Not an easy win
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn and master the fascinating game of Japanese Chess or "Shogi" with this expert guide and Chess set.
Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi is the ultimate strategy guidebook for players of any skill level to improve their game and winning strategies. Played by millions around the world, Shogi is the uniquely Japanese variant of chess. It is the only version in which an opponent's captured piece can be dropped back onto the board...
Japanese Chess: The Game of Shogi is the ultimate strategy guidebook for players of any skill level to improve their game and winning strategies. Played by millions around the world, Shogi is the uniquely Japanese variant of chess. It is the only version in which an opponent's captured piece can be dropped back onto the board...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of important historical notoriety, this Go guide is a must-have for enthusiasts of this ancient Asian strategy game
Oscar Korschelt's treatise on the game of Go was the first published at the end of the nineteenth century, but fell into obscurity until the editors Samuel King and George Leckie rescued it, translated it from the German and added numerous illustrative diagrams.
The result is a systematic analysis of the game, famous...
Oscar Korschelt's treatise on the game of Go was the first published at the end of the nineteenth century, but fell into obscurity until the editors Samuel King and George Leckie rescued it, translated it from the German and added numerous illustrative diagrams.
The result is a systematic analysis of the game, famous...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn the ancient and fascinating game of Chinese Chess with this expert guide.
Chinese chess, or "elephant chess," has intrigued the powerful and the quizzical for centuries. Although its rules are similar to the well-known Western game, subtle and fascinating variations must be mastered in order to understand the strategies it requires. A great way to learn Chinese Chess, this book is simple enough for Chess beginners but contains a wealth...
Chinese chess, or "elephant chess," has intrigued the powerful and the quizzical for centuries. Although its rules are similar to the well-known Western game, subtle and fascinating variations must be mastered in order to understand the strategies it requires. A great way to learn Chinese Chess, this book is simple enough for Chess beginners but contains a wealth...
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of Tani Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee who garnered international news coverage after winning the New York State Chess Championship at the age of eight. Tani's story of finding a new life in America reminds children that perseverance and hope make a difference--and small acts of kindness can make the world a better place"--
33) Brooklyn castle
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
I.S.318 is an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. The film follows the challenges these kids face in their personal lives as well as on the chessboard.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning students of the game as well as veterans of the board will find this chess guide offers a wealth of inspiration, enjoyment, and practical chess advice. In providing valuable instruction for players at all levels, noted chess writer and teacher Peter Tamburro initially presents elementary ideas that can be used immediately by beginners.
The attack section features the tactics of such great masters of the assault as Fischer, Keres, Alekhine,...
The attack section features the tactics of such great masters of the assault as Fischer, Keres, Alekhine,...
Author
Publisher
Author's Republic
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The people, places and stories behind the chess openings and their names
When we play chess, the first few moves define the game . You probably know the names already: the Sicilian Defense, the Ruy Lopez, the French Defense, the Caro-Kann, the Benoni, the London System, the Scandinavian Defense and so on.
But most chess players don't know WHY the openings are called what they are.
In this entertaining book, bestselling author Nathan Rose lays out...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
These 25 chess games played between master and amateur were chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs improve their games. What better way could the amateur have of learning to exploit the weak play of fellow amateurs than to study how a master would handle such situations? Selected by former World Chess Champion Max Euwe and Walter Meiden, a typical amateur player, the games point out graphically how the chess master takes advantage of
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Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Designed for the typical amateur player who wants to improve his or her chess skills, this clear, straightforward guide provides the extra knowledge and technique that turns a losing player into a winner.
The author, a well-known chess teacher and author of a dozen books on openings, coaches the reader through all the fundamentals of attacking, sacrifices, defense, positional play and choosing a move, as well as how to approach the endgame.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here are 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess, compiled and annotated by one of the game's most admired and respected writers. Each game offers a classic example of a fundamental problem and its best resolution, described and diagrammed in the clearest possible manner for players of every level of skill.
As Irving Chernev observes in the Introduction, "Who will doubt the tremendous power exerted by a Rook posted
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