Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486292663
Noted authority recapitulates 80 brilliant short games featuring lightning-quick winning strategies by Keres, Hanauer, Maroczy and scores of other great players who artfully outmaneuvered their adversaries. Author’s commentary helps make each game a unique lesson in the fine points of championship chess.
Author : Alexander Alekhine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486249417
The best games of one of the best players in chess history. 220 games with Alekhine's own accounts. Spans 30 years of tournament play.
Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1849944717
Increase your chess knowledge within the year! In this book, Andrew Soltis analyzes 365 key chess games in an easy way for busy people. In this book, 365 of the most instructive short games of chess are analyzed, step by step, by well-respected author Andrew Soltis. Arranged as daily lessons, this book is perfect for chess players who would like to reach the next level of skill but can't devote hours and hours each day to study. Learn to feel confident with each tactic – each game features test-yourself quizzes (with answers at the back of the book) to help cement understanding, as well as chess diagrams for those who learn visually. Challenging tactics are revisited in later games to help you recognize when they occur and how chess masters use them to their full advantage. With this book, Andrew encourages you to learn to think like a chess master within the year. From Castling to Zugzwang, learn something new everyday!
Author : John Watson
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781901983692
Uses examples from such players as Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk, Shirov, and Morozecich to illustrate developments in chess strategy.
Author : Alex Yermolinsky
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781901983241
In this exciting new book, a US Champion provides solutions to the real-life problem of improving one's chess. Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, one of the strongest players in the US, passes on many of the insights he has gained over years of playing and teaching, steering the reader away from 'quick-fix' approaches, and focussing on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making. A large part of this book discusses a variety of important opening set-ups, including methods for opposing off-beat but dangerous lines, such as the Grand Prix Attack. This entertainingly written book breaks new ground in many areas of chess understanding.
Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1849941556
If you want to become a chess master, there are certain things you need to know – essential tips and techniques that the masters know, and you need to learn. This incredibly useful book collects all these techniques together in one volume, so you can try them out, tick them off, and start on your path towards chess greatness. Arranged in chapters covering every aspect of chess, from openings to endgames, renowned chess author Andrew Soltis provides top 20 rundowns of these specific positions and techniques: chapters include Top 20 Sacrifices, Top 20 Crucial Middlegame Decisions, Top 20 Endgame Techniques and Top 20 Exact Endgames. Written in Andrew Soltis's eternally engaging and accessible style, this book will prove invaluable to any player who wants to become a chess master.
Author : A.A. Kotov
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1849940533
This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.
Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781857443318
'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do
Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0990582914
The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1899-07
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN :
