Morphy Chess Masterpieces
Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780020297703
Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9780020297703
Author : Zenon Franco
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release :
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 178194363X
Paul Morphy is a chess legend and without doubt one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His understanding of the game was years ahead of his time and in his era he was easily the best player in the world. His chess career was brief but brilliant and he influenced all the great champions who came after him. His legacy includes a treasure trove of wonderful strategic and attacking games which are highly instructive for all aspiring chess players. In this book, Grandmaster Zenón Franco examines in detail Morphy’s chess style, selects and studies his favourite Morphy games, and demonstrates how we can all improve our chess by learning from Morphy’s masterpieces. Move by Move provides an ideal platform to study chess. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to improve your chess skills and knowledge. * Learn from the games of a chess legend Important ideas absorbed by continued practice *Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study
Author : Macon Shibut
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486149870
Analysis of the games and positions of the best chess player of the 19th century — his rare blunders, omissions, selected endgames, and openings.
Author : Chris Ward
Publisher : Cadogan Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781857441376
The brilliant American chess master Paul Morphy (1837-84) had a dazzling gift for attacking play that is admired to the present day. In this book, Chris Ward undertakes a fascinating examination of Morphy's games and style of play, providing a revealing insight into how Morphy was able to dominate his contemporaries. The recent return in popularity of the swashbuckling Evans Gambit, one of the daring opening variations associated with Morphy, shows there are many modern-day lessons to be learned from the chess visionaries of the past.
Author : Dr. S. Tartakower
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486138135
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
Author : Frisco Del Rosario
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1412039061
A First Book of Morphy aims to illustrate the teachings of three great chessplayers with games played by the first American chess champion, Paul Morphy. The book presents more than 60 of Morphy's brilliant and instructive games in demonstration of basic chess principles written by grandmasters Reuben Fine and Cecil Purdy.
Author : Averbach, Jurij Lʹvovič Averbach
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056913649
Yuri Averbakh (1922) is a distinguished Russian chess grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career. He has been a top player, a journalist, an editor, an arbiter, a trainer and a long-time member of the board of the Soviet chess federation. Averbakh won the USSR championship in 1954 ahead of players like Kortchnoi, Petrosian and Geller and was a leading Soviet grandmaster for two decades. In this personal memoir he looks back on his days as an active player on the centre stage of chess, but also on his experiences as a quintessential insider when chess was considered a vital ingredient of life in the Soviet Union. Averbakh observes the world of chess from the moment he walked into the Moscow Chess Club as a 13-year old boy and describes his personal successes, his secret training matches with world champion Botvinnik, the mechanisms and behind-the-scenes dealings in the Soviet Union, including his involvement in the famous matches between Karpov and Kasparov. A unique, revealing and well-told story, essential reading for everybody interested in the history of chess and the Soviet Union.
Author : Henry Edward Bird
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Chess
ISBN :
Author : Edward Lasker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486201467
Chess as art and recreation; checkmating combinations, endgame play, strategic principles, more. Full details and analysis of author's famous game with Emanuel Lasker. 94 diagrams; other illustrations. "Very enjoyable." — Cleveland Chess Bulletin.
Author : David Lawson
Publisher : University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781887366977
"Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pull of his domineering family led Morphy to set another precedent: chess madness. Morphy's mental descent after retiring from chess became a part of his lore, made all the more magnanimous by a spate of twentieth-century examples. "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" tells the full known story of the life of Paul Morphy, from his privileged upbrining in New Orleans to his dominance of the chess world, to the later tragedy of his demise. This new edition of David Lawson's seminal work, still the principal source for all Morphy biographical presentations, also includes new biographical material about the biographer himself, telling the story of the author, his opus, and the previously unknown life that brought him to the research.