Chess
Chess

Author: László Polgár

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781579129507

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Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

100 Soviet Chess Miniatures
100 Soviet Chess Miniatures

Author: P. H. Clarke

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780486408446

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Tactics, audacity, and speed are the hallmarks of miniature chess ? games played in 25 moves or less. Learn from 100 games played by Soviet chess masters. 99 chess diagrams.

The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Raymond M. Smullyan

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0486482014

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Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.

Outrageous Chess Problems
Outrageous Chess Problems

Author: Burt Hochberg

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781402719097

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"[It's] enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity, but they will enjoy the ride....The author warns the reader from the start anything goes....Buy this book...and have fun!"--Games It's outrageous and amazing and irresistible: these brainbusting chess problems are the devilish inventions of the world's greatest puzzle creators. Chess mavens won't believe what they'll find, because in these games, the usual rules just don't apply. For example, there's Billiards Chess, where pieces can carom off the board at a right angle and return. In Checkless Chess, check is an illegal move...unless it's checkmate. Refusal Chess allows a player to refuse an opponent's move and demand an alternative. There's even a variation called Collaboration, in which both sides must cooperate to achieve checkmate. And, the coup de grace: the world's hardest chess problem ever posed.

101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures

Author: John Nunn

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901983166

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A collection of games of 25 moves or fewer by a grandmaster. The accent is on instruction, discussing both how the loser could have avoided disaster and how the winner was able to take advantage so effectively.