Author: Howard Staunton
Howard Staunton, the organiser of London 1851 and writer of the book, was the epitome of mid-Victorian versatility and self confidence. By defeating the leading French and German masters such as St Amant, Horwitz and Har ... |
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Author: Howard Staunton
"He achieved fame by winning a celebrated match against the French champion St Amant, gave his name to a set of chessmen that has become standard, edited the first English chess magazine and by his originality and enthus ... |
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A Key Introduction to a Major Defence
Author: Raymond Keene & Shaun Taulbut
A companion volume to Winning with the Nimzo, this book is the first part of a full explanation of one of the most important defences to the Queen's pawn in contemporary chess. It has been a favourite of Fischer, Kasparo ... |
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Keeping Control with the White Pieces
Author: Raymond Keene
An ideal book for any chess player with a strategic frame of mind who wishes to carve out an openings repertoire based on 1d4! The author gives a number of illustrative games in all key lines which show how White can mai ... |
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How to Build a Championship Team Every Season
Author: David Dorey
Between 20 and 30 million people play fantasy football each year. Now, "Fantasy Football: The Next Level" goes beyond stats and projections to teach readers a proven approach to drafting and managing a team that succeeds ... |
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Aggressive Plans for White
Author: Raymond Keene & Byron Jacobs
A companion volume to Two Opening Repertoires for White: Volume 1, this book details some more aggressive strategies in the opening for White again based on the key move 1d4! Together the two volumes give ambitious White ... |
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My Rise to the World Championship
Author: V.V. Smyslov
Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second to Botvinnik. Eventually, after two victories in Candidates contests and a drawn match with Botvinnik, Smyslov overcame hi ... |
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Before Fide - the Freelance World Champions
Author: Pablo Moran
The World Chess Championship was officially founded by the Steinitz - Zukertort match of 1886. This thrilling account - Part One of the Hardinge Simpole complete history of the world chess championship- tells the stories ... |
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Soviet Domination and the Rise of Fischer
Author: R. G. Wade, A. J. Whiteley & Raymond Keene
The history of the World Chess Championship continues in this volume with the epic struggles between Botvinnik, Bronstein, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian, via the brief but spectacular advent of Bobby Fischer, and on to the ... |
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Masterpieces by the Latvian Genius, 1961-1973
Author: Bernard Cafferty
The essential sequel to Peter Clarke's companion book on Tal, Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess. Cafferty takes us further on Tal's career path, covering his loss to Botvinnik in the revenge match, but also the triumphs ... |
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The Masters Relax
Author: Raymond Edwards & Raymond Keene
An anthology of wit and wisdom from the masters and grandmasters of the game. Do you know which was the worst game ever played in a World Championship? Or that Botvinnik once failed to win having been given an extra rook ... |
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The Favourite Defence of Kasparov, Tal and Fischer
Author: Raymond Keene & Byron Jacobs
The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book describes the key strategies for both sides in the main lines such as the Fianchetto variation, the Petrosian system, the Samisc ... |
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Master the Art of Flank Attacks
Author: Raymond Keene & Eric Schiller
In the 1920's the hypermodern school - primarily Nimzowitsch, Reti, Tartakower, Breyer and Grunfeld - introduced strategies which relied for their impact on fianchettoed bishops and a delayed assault on the centre. Perha ... |
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The System in Action
Author: Aron Nimzowitsch
In Chess Praxis Nimzowitsch elaborates on the strategies first adumbrated in My System with a series of deeply annotated games, demonstrating how his principles operated in practice. This was very much a manifesto for th ... |
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The Chess Player's Strategic Battle
Author: Aron Nimzowitsch
No book has exerted a greater impact on chess thought over the past 80 years. Variations may come and go, but Nimzowitsch was a seeker after eternal truths and the precepts outlined in this strategic manual have withstoo ... |
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A Selection of Best Games from the 1940s and 1950s
Author: S G Tartakower & J. Du Mont
A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this book, presented according to opening variation, takes the story of the best games of the top players chosen from the previous two decades. The games by ... |
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Author: Raymond Keene
Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of chess: defending champion Anatoly Karpov, the most deadly tournament player in the history of the game, and Gary Kasparov, ... |
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Author: Raymond Keene & Bernard Levin
New York and Lyons: the two arenas of the last contest for the World Chess Championship between the two greatest names in chess today. The Champion: charismatic Garry Kasparov, the youngest ever holder of the title and p ... |
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Chess Anecdotes and Anthology Pieces
Author: Assiac
Delights of Chess is Assiac's enduring monument. Wit, erudition, grandmaster gossip and profiles of the greats are the staple fare, rather then gruelling analysis or reams of variations. This is the elegant fireside of c ... |
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An Indian Mystic Challenges the West
Author: R.N. Coles
At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the imperial capital as part of the feudal retinue of Sir Umar, his high caste master. While Sir Umar deliberated in the raref ... |
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