Author: Isaac KashdanPublisher:
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Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Second Piatigorsky Cup
Author: Isaac KashdanSecond Piatigorsky Cup International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Santa Monica, California August 1966
Author: Gregor PiatigorskyPublisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871878449
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Ten of the world's strongest chess players competed in the strongest chess tournament ever held in the US. All ten of the players have provided annotations to their games. Every one of the 90 games in the tournament is annotated. All the games have been converted to modern Algebraic Notation with diagrams. The games are annotated by Jan H. Donner, Robert Fischer, Borislav Ivkov, Bent Larsen, Miguel Najdorf, Tigran Petrosian, Lajos Portisch, Samuel Reshevsky, Boris Spassky, and Wolfgang Unzicker. Introduction by Gregor Piatigorsky. Edited by Isaac Kashdan with a new foreword by Sam Sloan.
Second Piatigorsky Cup
Author: First Piatigorsky Cup International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Los Angeles, California July 1963
Author: Samuel ReshevskyPublisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871878432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
To help bring to the United States chess of the highest quality in the world, Mrs. Gregor Piatigorsky and her husband, the world renowned cellist, created the Piatigorsky Cup as a symbol of excellence in chess. Along with the trophy went the finest playing conditions and the highest prizes ever offered for any chess event. For the first time since 1932, a world chess champion appeared in an American tournament when Tigran Petrosian, USSR, joined seven other of the greatest international grandmasters in a month of competition at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Players, in addition to Petrosian, included Paul Keres, also of the Soviet Union; Miguel Najdorf and Oscar Panno of Argentina; Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland; Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia; and Samuel Reshevsky and Pal Benko of the United States. This book contains the complete score of all 56 games played by these eight international grandmasters. All of the games have been converted into Algebraic Notation. Each of the players annotated the game he considered his best and Reshevsky annotated the rest. The book is edited by Isaac Kashdan. Many of these games are likely to become classics and every chess player, from novice to master, will be able to learn fine points of the game from this volume.
First Piatigorsky Cup ; International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Los Angeles, California July, 1963
Author: Isaac KashdanFirst Piatigorsky Cup
Author: Isaac KashdanPublisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486240664
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Second Piatigorsky Cup
Author: Isaac KashdanPublisher: Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Piatigorsky Cup, Santa Monica, California, July-August, 1966
Author: Isaac KashdanEndgame
Author: Frank BradyPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307463915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who was Bobby Fischer? In this “nuanced perspective of the chess genius” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, with an afterword containing newly discovered details about Fischer’s life. Possessing an IQ of 181 and remarkable powers of concentration, Bobby Fischer memorized hundreds of chess books in several languages, and he was only thirteen when he became the youngest chess master in U.S. history. But his strange behavior started early. In 1972, at the historic Cold War showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he faced Soviet champion Boris Spassky, Fischer made headlines with hundreds of petty demands that nearly ended the competition. It was merely a prelude to what was to come. Arriving back in the United States to a hero’s welcome, Bobby was mobbed wherever he went—a figure as exotic and improbable as any American pop culture had yet produced. Commercial sponsorship offers poured in, ultimately topping $10 million—but Bobby demurred. Instead, he began tithing his limited money to an apocalyptic religion and devouring anti-Semitic literature. Bobby reemerged in 1992 to play Spassky in a multi-million dollar rematch—but when the dust settled, he was a wanted man, transformed into an international fugitive because of his decision to play in Montenegro despite U.S. sanctions. Fearing for his life, traveling with bodyguards, Bobby lived the life of a celebrity fugitive—one drawn increasingly to the bizarre. Drawing from Fischer family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobby’s own emails, Endgame is unique in that it limns Bobby Fischer’s entire life—an odyssey that took the chess champion from an impoverished childhood to the covers of Time, Life and Newsweek to recognition as “the most famous man in the world” to notorious recluse.
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