Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849942331
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Mind-bending analysis and instructive comment from a man who has participated in world chess at the very highest levels. World championship candidate and three-times British Champion Jon Speelman annotates the best of his games. He is renowned as a great fighter and analyst, and a highly original player. This book provides entertainment and instruction in abudance.
Jon Speelman's Best Games
Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849942331
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Mind-bending analysis and instructive comment from a man who has participated in world chess at the very highest levels. World championship candidate and three-times British Champion Jon Speelman annotates the best of his games. He is renowned as a great fighter and analyst, and a highly original player. This book provides entertainment and instruction in abudance.
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849942331
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Mind-bending analysis and instructive comment from a man who has participated in world chess at the very highest levels. World championship candidate and three-times British Champion Jon Speelman annotates the best of his games. He is renowned as a great fighter and analyst, and a highly original player. This book provides entertainment and instruction in abudance.
Jon Speelman's Chess Puzzle Book
Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781904600961
Category : Chess problems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels. Themed sections include: * Finger Exercises * Stalemate * The Skewer * The Pin * Pawn Promotion * Line Opening and Closing * Loose Pieces * Mating Attacks * The Back Rank * Knight Forks
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781904600961
Category : Chess problems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jon Speelman is one of the most successful British chess-players of all time, and is renowned for the creativity of his play and his remarkable calculating ability. He is also an extremely experienced writer and chess coach. His personal selection of chess puzzles will infuriate, entertain, test and instruct chess-players of all levels. Themed sections include: * Finger Exercises * Stalemate * The Skewer * The Pin * Pawn Promotion * Line Opening and Closing * Loose Pieces * Mating Attacks * The Back Rank * Knight Forks
Vishy Anand - My Best Games of Chess
Author: Viswanathan Anand
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781901983548
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crystal-clear explanations of grandmaster tactics and strategies from which players of all abilities can learn.
Publisher: Gambit Publications
ISBN: 9781901983548
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crystal-clear explanations of grandmaster tactics and strategies from which players of all abilities can learn.
Analysing the Endgame
Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713460643
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Original insights into the endgame by Britain's leading expert.
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713460643
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Original insights into the endgame by Britain's leading expert.
Fire on Board
Author: Alexei Shirov
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 9781857441505
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In this book, the young Latvian star Alexei Shirov explains his best games and reveals the style of play that has made him one of the most feared attacking players in the world.
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 9781857441505
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In this book, the young Latvian star Alexei Shirov explains his best games and reveals the style of play that has made him one of the most feared attacking players in the world.
Essential Chess Openings
Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 9780805024302
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Owl Books
ISBN: 9780805024302
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Best I Saw in Chess
Author: Stuart Rachels
Publisher: New In Chess
ISBN: 9056918826
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne. Instead, Rachels pulled off a gigantic upset and became the youngest U.S. Champion since Bobby Fischer. Three years later he retired from competitive chess, but he never stopped following the game. In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories. There are chapters on tactics, endings, blunders, middlegames, cheating incidents, and even on how to combat that rotten opening, the Réti. Rachels offers a complete and entertaining course in chess strategy. At the back are listed 110 principles of play—bits of wisdom that arise naturally in the book’s 24 chapters. Every chess player will find it difficult to put this sparkling book down. As a bonus, it will make you a better player.
Publisher: New In Chess
ISBN: 9056918826
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
At the U.S. Championship in 1989, Stuart Rachels seemed bound for the cellar. Ranked last and holding no IM norms, the 20-year-old amateur from Alabama was expected to get waxed by the American top GMs of the day that included Seirawan, Gulko, Dzindzichashvili, deFirmian, Benjamin and Browne. Instead, Rachels pulled off a gigantic upset and became the youngest U.S. Champion since Bobby Fischer. Three years later he retired from competitive chess, but he never stopped following the game. In this wide-ranging, elegantly written, and highly personal memoir, Stuart Rachels passes on his knowledge of chess. Included are his duels against legends such as Kasparov, Anand, Spassky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Miles, but the heart of the book is the explanation of chess ideas interwoven with his captivating stories. There are chapters on tactics, endings, blunders, middlegames, cheating incidents, and even on how to combat that rotten opening, the Réti. Rachels offers a complete and entertaining course in chess strategy. At the back are listed 110 principles of play—bits of wisdom that arise naturally in the book’s 24 chapters. Every chess player will find it difficult to put this sparkling book down. As a bonus, it will make you a better player.
Test Your Endgame Ability
Author: August Livshitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Winning Chess Combinations
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 1781945144
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow. Winning Chess Combinations is a unique work that doesn't merely repeat the wonderfully rich and vast numbers of combinations, asking readers to solve a particular diagrammed position; it is a work that is far more realistic. A combination involves a sacrifice upsetting the balance of forces, but will it work or tragically boomerang? The reader is invited to solve this critical question by identifying the advantages that a specific position holds which might make the combination successful.
Publisher: Everyman Chess
ISBN: 1781945144
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn brings a smile of joy to all chess lovers. Virtually all chess games possess a combination, either one hidden in the shadows of analysis carefully avoided or one that provides a decisive blow. Winning Chess Combinations is a unique work that doesn't merely repeat the wonderfully rich and vast numbers of combinations, asking readers to solve a particular diagrammed position; it is a work that is far more realistic. A combination involves a sacrifice upsetting the balance of forces, but will it work or tragically boomerang? The reader is invited to solve this critical question by identifying the advantages that a specific position holds which might make the combination successful.
Batsford Chess Endings
Author: Jon Speelman
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713444209
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The endgame is the final phase of a game of chess, in which very little material is left on the board and the weaknesses forced earlier in the game can be exploited. Theory, while not changing as rapidly as in the openings, is no less important, and many games are won or lost because one player knew the winning plan and the other didn't.
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN: 9780713444209
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The endgame is the final phase of a game of chess, in which very little material is left on the board and the weaknesses forced earlier in the game can be exploited. Theory, while not changing as rapidly as in the openings, is no less important, and many games are won or lost because one player knew the winning plan and the other didn't.