Author: Raymond Keene
Even Kasparov is human. This book analyses all of his major lost games up to 1990 and tries to draw common conclusions about how to defeat the very greatest. Gary Kasparov won the World Championship in 1985 and successfu ... |
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Author: Raymond Keene
The Nimsowitsch/Larsen attack ( 1 b3) is one of the most interesting and most flexible opening systems in which the theory has not yet fully crystallised. It is, therefore, an ideal choice for the player wishing to avoid ... |
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Author: Terence Tiller
Before television took a hold BBC Radio produced a superb series of programmes on chess. The experts enlisted for this venture constituted a veritable Who's Who of British and World chess of the time: Abrahams, Alexander ... |
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Author: Raymond Keene
The Nimzo-Indian Defence is one of Black's most dynamic ways of countering 1 d4. From the outset of the game Black seeks to create pawn weaknesses in his opponent's position to be exploited in the middlegame. Usually thi ... |
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Best Games of a World Title Challenger
Author: Raymond Keene
In 1993 Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short broke away from FIDE. This book gives Nigel Short's best games, with meticulously researched comments, against top players, and shows how he qualified to meet the great Kasparov in ... |
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The Soviet Empire Strikes Back
Author: Raymond Keene, David Goodman & David Spanier
This book recounts the fourth and penultimate chapter in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes of many this conflict symbolised the clash between the Brezhnev-i ... |
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A Selection of Best Games from 1900 to 1940
Author: Harry Golombek
A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players from the beginnning of the 20th century up to 1940. This volume is arranged chronologically an ... |
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A History of Britain's Most Successful Chess Club
Author: Richard G. Eales
The Cambridge University Chess Club contributed a vast amount to what later became known as the English Chess Explosion. The club attracted players such as Ray Keene, Michael Stean and Jonathan Mestel, all of whom went o ... |
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Alekhine Triumphs in the Capital of the British Empire
Author: Alexander Alekhine
London 1932 is one of the lesser known books from the pen of the prolific Russian genius, Alekhine. In 1932 Alekhine was still revelling in the blinding nimbus of invincibility which had surrounded him ever since his mat ... |
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Author: Alexander Alekhine
It seems almost unbelievable that the organisers of Nottingham 1936 succeeded in attracting such an illustrious field. This included world champions Euwe, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine and Botvinnik, as well as prospectiv ... |
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Spassky's Greatest Tournament Triumph
Author: Isaac Kashdan
If anything, the Second Piatigorsky Cup excelled the First in tension and excellence of play. Once again the competing grandmasters - including Fischer, Larsen, Petrosian and Spassky - contributed their comments to creat ... |
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The Chess Elite in Hollywood
Author: Isaac Kashdan
Having just defeated Botvinnik for the World Crown the new champion Tigran Petrosian travelled to Hollywood to compete in this glamorous top level competition organised and financed by millionaire cellist and chess devot ... |
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Botvinnik Withstands Bronstein's Onslaught
Author: William Winter & R. G. Wade
This mighty clash between the top two Soviet Grandmasters was Botvinnik's first title defence after becoming World Champion in 1948. Amazingly, the man who had dominated Soviet and World chess was only able to defend his ... |
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My Rise to Become World Champion
Author: Max Euwe
Originally published as From My Games, 1920-1937, the fifth World Champion comments on his rise to the top.Euwe was a hero in his native country of the Netherlands, and his book explains why - Euwe was one of the very fe ... |
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Master of Counter Attack
Author: Bent Larsen
Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victories spanning five decades. His outstanding fighting qualities have made him a great favourite with the chess public and eve ... |
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Author: Jason Bulmahn
Go beyond a single sheet with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Player Character Folio, a 16-page deluxe character record that covers absolutely everything you need to know about your Pathfinder hero! Features include expa ... |
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Author: Arnold Denker & Larry Parr
This Damon Runyan-like work will be around well into the Twenty-first Century to inform future chess generations about such greats as Bobby Fischer and world champion Gary Kasparov as well as the "guys and dolls" of the ... |
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The Shooting Star of Chess
Author: Harry Golombek
Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer...the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars who burn briefly across the chess firmament, only to vanish without trace. The parabolic career of the Latvian genius Mikhail ... |
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The World Championships 1966 and 1969
Author: Harry Golombek & Peter Clarke
In 1966 and 1969 Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky contested two epic battles for the world crown. In the first of these Petrosian became the only world champion to actually win a title defence for 32 years when his ins ... |
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Author: Harry Golombek
All too often chess openings books consist of reams of variations and sub-variations and bracketed sub-sub-variations, with no apparent explanation for why a move is chosen or why one path deserves precedence over anothe ... |
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