The Art of the Game of Chess
The Art of the Game of Chess

Author: Ruy López

Publisher: Catholic University of America Press

Published: 2020-07-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0813232813

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The Art of the Game of Chess is the first English translation of Fr. Ruy López’s 1561 book about chess, Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez. López was a priest who served as King Philip II’s confessor and royal advisor. As a connoisseur of chess, King Philip II promoted the game in his court, and it did not take long for López to become known as Spain’s and one of Europe’s greatest chess players. López is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential chess thinkers of all time whose theories of chess are an integral part of how chess is played today. Academics, including historians, linguists, sociologists, and Hispanists, as well as non-academics, especially chess enthusiasts, will appreciate this translation, which opens with a Foreword by Andrew Soltis, who is a Grandmaster and a United States Chess Hall of Fame Inductee, and includes a critical introduction and more than 275 footnotes.

How Not to Play Chess
How Not to Play Chess

Author: Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0486158373

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Developing plans of action based on positional analysis: weak and strong squares, control of open lines, pawn structure, more. 20 problems.

The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess

Author: David Hooper

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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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.