Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9780786428564
This thoroughly updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed 1986 reference work provides a definitive history of all championship events in the United States through 1995. Both the games and the occasions are covered in depth, including biographical details, descriptive settings, anecdotes, tournament drama, unusual games, and grandmaster analysis. Filled with quotations from the winners, losers and many others, this is an authoritative and indispensable volume.
Author : United States Chess Federation
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Games
ISBN : 0812935594
Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.
Author : Andy Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786475018
Frank Marshall (1877–1944) reigned as America’s chess champion from 1907 through 1936—the longest stint of anyone in history. A colorful character almost always decked out in an ascot and chewing a cigar, his career coincided with many evolutionary changes in competitive chess. Marshall was a master gamesman. He took up the game of salta, akin to Chinese checkers, and was soon world champion. But more than anything, he loved chess, claiming that after he learned the game at 10 he played every day for the next 57 years. Marshall’s life and playing style are fully examined here, including 220 of his games (some never before published) with 190 positional diagrams.
Author : Alexey W. Root
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1476646872
As late as 1950, many chess clubs in America excluded women. The Marshall Chess Club in New York City was an exception, organizing the U.S. Women's Chess Championship beginning in the late 1930s. Since the 1980s, the average rating of the players has increased. The Saint Louis Chess Club has organized the championship since 2009, with record-setting prizes. Drawing on archives and original interviews with the living U.S. Women's Chess Champions, this book examines their careers with biographies, photos, and 171 annotated games, most of which are from the 60 championships between 1937 and 2020.
Author : Joel Benjamin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781857445527
In American Grandmaster, Joel Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the 'Fischer boom' era thorough to an experienced Grandmaster with many titles, Benjamin is in a unique position to highlight the major changes that have occurred both in US and international chess throughout the last four decades.
Author : Miguel Najdorf
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 193649051X
The Stuff of Legend A great tournament deserves a great book. That's what grandmaster Miguel Najdorf produced in his account of one of the greatest and most important chess events of all time, the 1953 Zürich Candidates Tournament, in which 15 of the world's top players battled for the right to challenge the world champion, Mikhail Botvinnik. After two months and 210 games, many of which rank among the best ever played, Russian grandmaster Vassily Smyslov finally came out at the head of a star-studded field that included Sam Reshevsky, Paul Keres, David Bronstein, Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Alexander Kotov, Mark Taimanov, Yuri Averbakh, Isaac Boleslavsky, Laszló Szabó, Svetozar Gligoric, Max Euwe, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Najdorf himself. This is the first English edition of this classic work, until now available only in its original Spanish. It includes all 210 games with Najdorf's full and extensive notes, plus all the original introductory material, biographical sketches of the players, round-by-round accounts of the action, closing summary, and a survey of the tournament's impact on opening theory. Additionally this edition has many more diagrams and photos, an introduction by Yuri Averbakh (one of the last surviving participants) and a foreword by Andy Soltis.
Author : Pedro Méndez Castedo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1476636907
Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces the development of the International Chess Tournaments in Gijon from 1944 to 1965. The authors cover the decline of world champion Alekhine and the rise of the child prodigy Arturo Pomar, along with the great chess of Euwe, Rossolimo, Prins, Medina, Larsen and others. Drawing on primary sources and testimonies of former players and organizers, chapters feature the tournament tables, winner's biographies, historical commentaries and 213 games. Appendices with biographical notes and tables of participants for each year are included.
Author : Yasser Seirawan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781857445879
He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters-both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chess players of the last 50 years. --
Author : Robert M. Snyder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9780812936353
Introduces the pieces, rules, opening moves, and basic strategy of chess.
Author : Vishy Anand
Publisher : Gambit Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Chess
ISBN : 9781906454326
Anand has been one of the world's top players for more than two decades, and cemented his place in the all-time hall of fame by winning the unified World Championship in 2007, and successfully defending his title against Kramnik and Topalov. But it's not just his results that make Anand special. His style of play leads to highly spectacular games, and his speed of thought is the stuff of legends. He is also a great explainer of ideas, as his annotations for this book demonstrate. Anand is renowned as 'Mr Nice Guy', popular with both the public and his fellow supergrandmasters. John Nunn, who collaborated with Anand on the original book, has annotated 30 games selected by Anand himself from the period 2001-2011. This new edition also features biographical information and a career record.
