Les meilleures parties d'échecs de Garry Kasparov, tome 2
Les meilleures parties d'échecs de Garry Kasparov, tome 2

Author: Igor Stohl

Publisher: OLIBRIS

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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À partir du milieu des années 1990, les ordinateurs ont commencé à influencer la préparation des meilleurs joueurs de la planète. Numéro 1 mondial pendant toute la période couverte par ce livre (1994-2005), Garry Kasparov a été l’un des premiers à en faire un usage systématique, portant l’étude des ouvertures à un niveau inégalé. Avec une créativité intacte en milieu de partie et en finale, Kasparov pouvait affronter avec confiance les autres joueurs du gratin mondial, souvent plus jeunes que lui – on trouvera ici de beaux combats contre Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Morozevich, Ponomariov, Lautier, Bacrot et consorts. Entre autres chefs d’œuvre, ce volume permettra au lecteur de (re)découvrir comment Kasparov a renversé la tendance dans son match contre Anand en 1995 par un superbe sacrifice de Tour (partie 86), comment un autre sacrifice de Tour lui a permis de remporter contre Topalov ce qui est sans doute sa plus belle partie (partie 101), comment il a fini par s’imposer après une lutte épique sur Internet contre le « reste du monde » (partie 107) ou encore comment il a finalement réussi à battre la défense berlinoise de Kramnik (partie 120). Le grand maître Igor Štohl réussit ici la gageure de fournir des commentaires dignes des parties de Kasparov – c’est le fruit de l’immense travail nécessaire pour déchiffrer les parties de très haut niveau qui composent ce recueil et pour guider le lecteur dans les méandres de ces palpitantes aventures.

Crescendo of the Virtuoso
Crescendo of the Virtuoso

Author: Paul Metzner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-07-26

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0520377400

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During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Les meilleures parties d'échecs de Garry Kasparov, tome 1
Les meilleures parties d'échecs de Garry Kasparov, tome 1

Author: Igor Stohl

Publisher: OLIBRIS

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13:

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Avant son retrait de la compétition en 2005, Garry Kasparov est resté numéro un mondial pendant pas moins de 20 ans. Sa grande popularité ne s’explique pas seulement par son palmarès sans égal ou par son charisme : nombre de ses parties sont très spectaculaires, et, en approfondissant les possibilités de la stratégie dynamique tant dans le milieu de partie que dans les ouvertures, il a entraîné vers une ère nouvelle, dans son sillage, l’ensemble de la pratique de haut niveau. Ce premier volume contient 74 parties de Kasparov, couvrant la période 1973-1993. C’est l’époque où il se frotte à nombre de ses grands prédécesseurs, celle des matches de titans contre Karpov, avec la conquête du titre mondial en 1985, à l’âge de 22 ans. On y voit évoluer, et très vite parvenir à maturité, le style très entreprenant de Garry Kasparov, marqué par nombre de ces sacrifices positionnels qui font toujours le régal des amateurs. Forcément admiratif, Igor Štohl – le grand maître slovaque bien connu pour la profondeur et la précision de ses commentaires – ne tombe pas pour autant dans l’hagiographie et soumet les parties à un examen critique sans concession, améliorant à l’occasion les analyses de Kasparov lui-même. Et ce qu’il démontre, en guidant le lecteur vers la compréhension de ces chefs d’œuvre, c’est presque toujours que le jeu de Kasparov résiste avec brio à l’épreuve du temps ! Cette anthologie en deux volumes est la première à couvrir l’intégralité de la carrière de Garry Kasparov.

The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 1 1942-1965
The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 1 1942-1965

Author: Eduard Shekhtman

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9784871874236

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Prior his untimely death in Moscow on 13 August 1984.at the age of only 55, Former World Chess Champion Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian had been collecting his games and was preparing lectures and notes. He was planning to compile them all into a book. However, due to his premature death the book was never published. His widow Rona E. Petrosian went to work and with Eduard Shekhtman and with great difficulty was able to collect and compile the games which are published here. What is most surprising is that Petrosian is perhaps the only world champion other than Bobby Fischer to have a complete collection of his games published. There is no complete collection of the games of Tal, Smyslov or Botvinnik and there will probably never be one. Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969 and was one of the strongest players in the world throughout his lengthy career.

Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations
Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations

Author: Guy Ankerl

Publisher: INU PRESS

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9782881550041

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Some important questions are discussed in this book: Are there any civilisations other than the Western one living in our so-called Global-Age? 'Eastern civilisation'? Is the concept of East anything more than non-West? Or does there exist, in reality, a distinct Chinese, Indian, Arabo-Muslim, and Western civilisation? Is the construction of large civilisation-states such as China and India an unparalleled historical achievement? Do economic ties always eclipse other forms of affiliation such as those formed through kinship or between speech communities? What is the role of the 'Latin' and the Jewish Peoples in our Anglo-American-led Western world? Is English today the global language or merely an international one? Is the Chinese thought pattern closely related to its writing system? Is today's world one of (symmetrical) interdependence? Or rather one of hegemony? If the so-called North-South or East-West dialogue fails in constructing a universally accepted world civilisation, then what is the appropriate arrangement for reaching such a consensus within humankind?

Max Weber and Karl Marx
Max Weber and Karl Marx

Author: Karl Lowith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1134870000

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Interesting History of Income Tax
The Interesting History of Income Tax

Author: William J. Federer

Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780975345504

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The Interesting History of Income Tax William J. Federer "The only things certain are death and taxes" - Benjamin Franklin Yet few know America's interesting history of Income Tax, such as: *1787 - U.S. Constitution prohibited a "direct" Federal tax *1862 - "Revenue Tax" on incomes went into effect to finance the Union during the Civil War *1895 - Supreme Court made Income Tax unconstitutional *Woodrow Wilson thought tariffs on imports caused wars, so he worked to replace them with an Income Tax. *1913 - Income Tax was only a 1% tax on the top 1% richest people in America. *1943 - Paycheck Withholding began as an emergency effort to get funds to finance WWII. John F. Kennedy - "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased flow of revenues to the Federal Government." (Annual Budget Message, Jan. 17, 1963) Thomas Jefferson - "It is an encouragement to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation" (2nd Annual Message, 1802) (176 pages, includes pictures)

The Artificial and the Natural
The Artificial and the Natural

Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0262026201

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These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.