Chess in the Eighties
Author: David Bronstein
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Published: 2015-12-16
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9784871874991
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Author: David Bronstein
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Published: 2015-12-16
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9784871874991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Ionovich Bronshteĭn
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Eden Soltis
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Rogers
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Alan Fine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 022626503X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Within their community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity. Full of idiosyncratic characters and dramatic gameplay, Players and Pawns is a celebration of the fascinating world of serious chess.
Author: Andrew Soltis
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 147664053X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.
Author: Tibor Karolyi
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906552411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKárolyi has selected Karpov's most entertaining and instructive strategic wins from 1961-1985 as the Russian star proved he was a worthy successor to Bobby Fischer."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Boris Samoĭlovich Vaĭnshteĭn
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1983-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780080297231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hans Ree
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1936490684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ideal Chess Journalist During his active chess career, Hans Ree battled with almost all the great chessplayers, including eight world champions, from Max Euwe to Anatoly Karpov. My Chess is not only about them, but also about other players and writers from the past who are admired by Ree This book gives a personal view of Ree’s own world of chess, and therefore less prominent players also appear, such as a schoolmate with whom he played an endless series of matches, or the anonymous “A6648,” who played more than a half-million games on the Internet Chess Club. In addition, the question is finally answered why the great Dutch author W.F. Hermans designed a chess set made of cigarette lighters, but did not want to play chess. Though the game of chess and its practitioners are certainly not idealized, this book is in the first place, a loving description of a world brimming with striking personalities, and an inexhaustible source of stories. About the Author Grandmaster Hans Ree (1944) is a four-time Dutch champion, and represented his country from 1966 through 1994 in every chess Olympiad. From 2001-2007, he was the wearer of the “Euwe Ring,” an award for outstanding service to Dutch chess. He writes about chess in NRC Handelsblad, New in Chess magazine, and on the American website Russell-Enterprises.com. Internationally he is considered to be one of the best chess writers of his era. “A grandmaster, excellent writer and careful researcher who doesn't seek out controversy, but is equally unafraid to plumb the sometimes murky depths of chess politics, Ree is an ideal chess journalist.” – Jon Speelman, The Observer