Author : David Lonsdale
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781522007661
This is a chess monograph called "Indian Defence: Omega Gambit" which explores this chess opening: "1. d4 Nf6 2. e4". The author has played 62 completed chess games where he won 57 games, lost 4 games, and drew 1 game. All these games are recorded in Algebraic Chess Notation. And there are 52 chess diagrams, too.
Author : Eric Schiller
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
This inclusive guide to every unorthodox opening used by chess players contains more than 500 weird, contentious, controversial, unconventional, arrogant, and outright strange openings. A powerful part of any chess player's arsenal, these tricky tacky surprises fly in the face of tradition. 1,000+ illustrations and diagrams.
Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765394863
This engaging, collectible, miniature hardcover of the Orson Scott Card classic and worldwide bestselling novel, Ender's Game, makes an excellent gift for anyone's science fiction library. "Ender's Game is an affecting novel."--New York Times Book Review Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. He excels in simulated war games. But is the pressure and loneliness taking its toll on Ender? Simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battle School is just a game. Isn't it? THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow series Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts /First Meetings
Author : David Hooper
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
This newly revised edition, by former British Correspondence Chess Chanpion David Hooper, has been called one of the most readable and useful chess reference books available. More than 2,500 entries cover subjects from named openings and strategies to computers and theatre. Illustrated with over 500 chess diagrams, this book will appeal to chess players of all levels.
Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553904051
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 1863
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1858
Category :
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Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
A comprehensive guide of chess: history, famous games and players, rules, strategy, tactics, chess and the computer, documentation and literature, variants. Chess (the "Game of Kings") is a board game for two players, which requires 32 chesspieces (or chessmen) and a board demarcated by 64 squares. Gameplay does not involve random luck; consisting solely of strategy, (see also tactics, and theory). Chess is one of humanity's more popular games; it is has been described not only as a game, but also as both art and science. Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art".
Author : Eduard Gufeld
Publisher : B.T. Batsford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1996-01
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9780713478020
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