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Zdenek Marek. December 18 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
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Languages : en
Pages : 2486
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Gertrud Lomnitz. December 18 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Victor G. Lutfalla. December 18 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Aron Tejbus Birenbaum. December 18 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Aenny Blank. December 21 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: Dr. Fernand Van Den Branden. December 11 (legislative Day, November 27), 1950. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present
Author: Arpad E. EloPublisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9780923891275
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
One of the most extraordinary books ever written about chess and chessplayers, this authoritative study goes well beyond a lucid explanation of how todays chessmasters and tournament players are rated. Twenty years' research and practice produce a wealth of thought-provoking and hitherto unpublished material on the nature and development of high-level talent: Just what constitutes an "exceptional performance" at the chessboard? Can you really profit from chess lessons? What is the lifetime pattern of Grandmaster development? Where are the masters born? Does your child have master potential? The step-by-step rating system exposition should enable any reader to become an expert on it. For some it may suggest fresh approaches to performance measurement and handicapping in bowling, bridge, golf and elsewhere. 43 charts, diagrams and maps supplement the text. How and why are chessmasters statistically remarkable? How much will your rating rise if you work with the devotion of a Steinitz? At what age should study begin? What toll does age take, and when does it begin? Development of the performance data, covering hundreds of years and thousands of players, has revealed a fresh and exciting version of chess history. One of the many tables identifies 500 all-time chess greatpersonal data and top lifetime performance ratings. Just what does government assistance do for chess? What is the Soviet secret? What can we learn from the Icelanders? Why did the small city of Plovdiv produce three Grandmasters in only ten years? Who are the untitled dead? Did Euwe take the championship from Alekhine on a fluke? How would Fischer fare against Morphy in a ten-wins match? 1t was inevitable that this fascinating story be written, ' asserts FIDE President Max Euwe, who introduces the book and recognizes the major part played by ratings in today's burgeoning international activity. Although this is the definitive ratings work, with statistics alone sufficient to place it in every reference library, it was written by a gentle scientist for pleasurable reading -for the enjoyment of the truths, the questions, and the opportunities it reveals.
Post-Communist Democratization
Author: John S. DryzekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book examines the way democracy is thought about and lived by people in the post-communist world.
The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
Author: Georgi DimitrovPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133855
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin’s inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the Leipzig Trial and thereby became an international symbol of resistance to Nazism. Stalin appointed him head of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935, and he held this position until the Comintern’s dissolution in 1943. After the end of the Second World War, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became its first Communist premier. During the years between 1933 and his death in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary that described his tumultuous career and revealed much about the inner working of the international Communist organizations, the opinions and actions of the Soviet leadership, and the Soviet Union’s role in shaping the postwar Eastern Europe. This important document, edited and introduced by renowned historian Ivo Banac, is now available for the first time in English. It is an essential source for information about international Communism, Stalin and Soviet policy, and the origins of the Cold War.