Chess Masterpieces

Chess Masterpieces

Author: George Dean

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810949232

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Origins of chess - Islam's influence - Medieval Europe - Materials - War as a theme - France - Germany - The British Isles - Mediterranean countries - Central Europe - Russia - The Far East - Western hemispere - Twentieth century - Twenty-first century.


Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces

Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces

Author: Igor Stohl

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906454081

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62 brilliant games involving the best players in the world, with notes by one of the top annotators. Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique. Following each game there is a discussion of the most important lessons to be learned. The expanded and revised new edition of this award-winning work features 12 new top-level games from the period 2000-2007 annotated in great depth - about 40% new material. There are also corrections to the existing notes and a revised Introduction.


Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

Author: Akiba Rubinstein

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1960-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780486206172

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Here are 100 of Rubenstein's best games against such opponents as Euwe, Janowski, Kashdan, Marshall, Tarrasch, and many others. His highly original contributions to chess theory cannot be overlooked by any serious player.


Grandmaster Chess Strategy

Grandmaster Chess Strategy

Author: Jurgen Kaufeld

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2015-01-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9056915320

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What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example. By collecting his games, studying his choices and examining his style, you will understand what made him rise to the very top. This is what Guido Kern and Jurgen Kaufeld have done with Swedish chess legend Ulf Andersson, a positional genius with a crystal-clear style, who rose to the number 4 spot of the FIDE world rankings. Kaufeld and Kern have selected 80 of Andersson’s games and grouped them into 15 thematic strategy lessons, pinpointing exactly how the Swede made the difference in each case. Their instructive verbal explanations will improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling. Every chess player knows how difficult it can be to convert an advantage into a win. Positional technique is what you need and Grandmaster Chess Strategy teaches you exactly that. Throughout the book the authors have selected dozens of test positions at particularly instructive stages of the games.


Alekhine's Greatest Games of Chess

Alekhine's Greatest Games of Chess

Author: Alexander Alekhine

Publisher: B T Batsford Limited

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 9780713462692

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Alexander Alekhine held the World Champion title from 1927-1935 and again from 1937 until his death in 1946. His style of play was sharp and aggressive, in direct contrast to the ultra-positional style of his predecessor, Capablanca.


50 Golden Chess Games

50 Golden Chess Games

Author: Tim Harding

Publisher:

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780953853670

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Following his acclaimed '64 Great Chess Games', Senior International Master Tim Harding presents another 50 exciting and varied games played by post in the 19th and 20th centuries, or in recent years on the Internet. innovations in the majority of games as well as sacrificial combinations and instructive endgames. wins by Alekhine and Euwe, together with CC world champions Baumbach, Estrin, Hamarat, O'Kelly, Sanakoev, Timmerman and Umansky, plus games by other leading players and amateur chess players. players and the circumstances in which the games were played. correspondence chess has contributed many new ideas to the theory and practice of the game of chess.


Modern Chess Strategy

Modern Chess Strategy

Author: Ludek Pachman

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0486135705

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The use of the queen, the active king, exchanges, pawn play, the center, weak squares, more. Often considered the most important book on strategy. 298 diagrams.