Checkmate!

Checkmate!

Author: Garry Kasparov

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781857443585

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In Checkmate! readers are invited to learn chess with Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as their teacher. In this book chess players can discover all the various pieces and how they move, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.


The Checkmate Formula

The Checkmate Formula

Author: Alan Sellers

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1478757108

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This extraordinary book presents the powerful results of thirty years of observing and evaluating real-world success patterns of billionaires & visionaries. It unravels the intriguing mystery of how grandmasters in business achieve success, and presents a novel and compelling way to perceive the world of business. After reading it you may never view or approach business quite the same way again. THE CHECKMATE FORMULA answers two questions: what are the essential factors in business that dictate success or failure, and how do serial winners win consistently? Revealing a pragmatic roadmap used by the greatest business minds, it shows how to perceive reality differently through techniques like The Great Awareness, think differently through approaches like The Great Enabler, and act differently using the greatest force multiplier of all -- The Decryption Key. It simplifies & deconstructs business into understandable truths, and reassembles them into practical guidelines for creative thinking and result-generation. You’ll learn how to address major issues like capital raises, strategy and the customer acceptance riddle, and what it really means to understand the big picture -- with a generous dose of examples and insights from the business elite (including colorful analogies to chess and art). It’s an engaging read that will benefit entrepreneurs & executives wanting to “up” their game, and founders wanting to beat the odds.


1000 Best Short Games of Chess

1000 Best Short Games of Chess

Author: Irving Chernev

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9784871875745

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Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game. It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment. Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?


How to Force Checkmate

How to Force Checkmate

Author: Fred Reinfeld

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1958-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780486204390

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300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or travel (you need no board), this book will help end your games with a brilliant touch.


Chess in Action

Chess in Action

Author: Paul Mantell

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781402760464

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In fun and fresh language, this guide helps young chess players imagine themselves as generals of their own armies, warriors geared for the fight. At the same time, it conveys all the basic rules and strategies of the chess game in a clear, straightforward way.


1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate

1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate

Author: Fred Reinfeld

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1936490838

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A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the “baby boomer” generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate is available in modern algebraic notation. This may be the all-time great checkmate collection, with forced checkmate positions culled mainly from actual play. And Reinfeld's selection is simply marvelous, touching on all the important tactical themes. In short, this is an outstanding book to hone your tactical abilities. It will help you recognize mating patterns, develop visualization skills, enhance imagination, and improve tactical sharpness. And now, with a modern 21st-century edition of this great checkmate collection finally available, there is no excuse for not only improving your tactical skills, but also enjoying yourself along the way.


Checkmate

Checkmate

Author: Jerry L. Smith

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2018-08-27

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1480862665

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Insurance sales can be a rewarding and lucrative career, but you have to know how to cross sell. Jerry L. Smith, who has been selling insurance since age nineteen, says that vital skill is what separates the top producers from the rest of the pack. Learning to sell multiple insurance products simultaneously can seem challenging, but if you use a strategy similar to playing a game of chess, you’ll win every time. In this guidebook to selling insurance, you’ll learn how to: embrace Scenario selling; begin and end sales presentations; overcome self-imposed limitations; and separate the Sales Myths from the Sales Facts. Just like in chess, in sales, you have opening moves—and the first few moves you make with a prospect lay the foundation for the rest of your presentation, including the all-important close. Whether you’re just starting out in insurance sales or are already a hardened veteran, you’ll generate success for yourself, your company, and your customers by learning the strategies in Checkmate.


The Last Checkmate

The Last Checkmate

Author: Gabriella Saab

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0063141949

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A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice. Maria Florkowska is many things: daughter, avid chess player, and, as a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a young woman brave beyond her years. Captured by the Gestapo, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz, but while her family is sent to their deaths, she is spared. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Karl Fritzsch, decides to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. However, once he tires of exploiting her skills, he has every intention of killing her. Befriended by a Catholic priest, Maria attempts to overcome her grief, vows to avenge the murder of her family, and plays for her life. For four grueling years, her strategy is simple: Live. Fight. Survive. By cleverly provoking Fritzsch’s volatile nature in front of his superiors, Maria intends to orchestrate his downfall. Only then will she have a chance to evade the fate awaiting her and see him punished for his wickedness. As she carries out her plan and the war nears its end, she challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. If Maria can bear to face Fritzsch—and her past—one last time.


LOGICAL CHESS

LOGICAL CHESS

Author: Irving Chernev

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1971-06-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780671211356

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From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.