Author : Jon Speelman
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1849942331
Mind-bending analysis and instructive comment from a man who has participated in world chess at the very highest levels. World championship candidate and three-times British Champion Jon Speelman annotates the best of his games. He is renowned as a great fighter and analyst, and a highly original player. This book provides entertainment and instruction in abudance.
Author : Jon Speelman
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Chess problems
ISBN : 9781904600961
Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels. Themed sections include: * Finger Exercises * Stalemate * The Skewer * The Pin * Pawn Promotion * Line Opening and Closing * Loose Pieces * Mating Attacks * The Back Rank * Knight Forks
Author : Jon Speelman
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780713460643
Original insights into the endgame by Britain's leading expert.
Author : Jürgen Brustkern
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9493257010
No other chess tournament has such a long and rich history as the annual gathering 'in between the years' at the English seaside resort of Hastings. Countless chess players, professionals, and amateurs alike have celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year in Hastings while battling it out on the chessboard. German FM Jürgen Brustkern has been making the annual pilgrimage to Hasting ever since 1977. Together with his compatriot Norbert Wallet, he describes the tournament's fascinating history and portrays forty of the most colourful participants. The stories begin in 1895 when the young American Harry Pillsbury shocked the European chess elite with his victory, and they span 125 years. In this book, you will meet the strongest female players of all time, Vera Menchik, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Judit Polgar. You will get to know the mysterious Sultan Khan and the unorthodox Michael Basman and enjoy anecdotes about Mikhail Tal, Viktor Kortchnoi, and his rival Anatoly Karpov. How many World Champions came to Hastings? How expensive was the Golden Knight trophy that Lajos Portisch won? What was the effect of the British Chess Explosion? This collection of games and stories is enjoyed best in the dark days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, after a stroll on the beach, immersed in the spirit of Hastings. 'Should I trade my Romantic style for the modern way and only hunt for points?', Nicolas Rossolimo is quoted as asking himself. 'No, I won't. I will fight for chess as an art form.'
Author : Steve Giddins
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9493257460
Twenty years ago New in Chess magazine introduced a back page column in which a chess personality is asked to name their favourite items in many areas: food, drink, films, art, music, etc. One of the questions has always been: What is the most exciting game of chess you ever saw? After dozens of such questionnaires, a large body of games was nominated by chess greats such as Anand, Shirov, Short, and Ivanchuk and chess aficionados such as Jeremy Silman, Jennifer Shahade, and Tania Sachdev. This anthology presents the 45 most exciting of these most exciting games. Naturally, excitement, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The reader will find some well-known games. Included are the classic tactical slugfest Kasparov-Topalov (Wijk aan Zee 1999) and the immortal game Anderssen - Kieseritzky (London 1851), but also a decisive last-round battles between Karpov and Kasparov (Match/24 1985) and a strategic masterpiece by Botvinnik versus Capablanca. Even more inspirational are the lesser-known gems. Ding Liren revels in an all-out attack. Ivan Saric juggles a knight and five pawns versus two rooks. And Sergei Radchenko chases the White king all over the board. Every game is a showcase of the richness and resourcefulness of chess. Steve Giddins edited this book, a job he greatly enjoyed: ‘I hope that every reader will find games here which bring a smile to their face and a lift to their heart’.
Author : Viswanathan Anand
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781901983548
Crystal-clear explanations of grandmaster tactics and strategies from which players of all abilities can learn.
Author : Stuart Rachels
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9056918826
At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne. Instead, Rachels pulled off a gigantic upset and became the youngest U.S. Champion since Bobby Fischer. Three years later he retired from competitive chess, but he never stopped following the game. In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories. There are chapters on tactics, endings, blunders, middlegames, cheating incidents, and even on how to combat that rotten opening, the Réti. Rachels offers a complete and entertaining course in chess strategy. At the back are listed 110 principles of play—bits of wisdom that arise naturally in the book’s 24 chapters. Every chess player will find it difficult to put this sparkling book down. As a bonus, it will make you a better player.
Author : August Livshitz
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
Author : Jon Speelman
Publisher : B.T. Batsford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9780713440003
An advanced analysis of important areas of the chess endgame in which complex positions are re-evaluated by the author who makes a number of significant improvements on previous assessments.
Author : W. Rubinstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1941 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0230304664
This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.
