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British Chess Literature to 1914

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668396
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book British Chess Literature to 1914 written by Tim Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to expert. The author combines new information about the early history of the game with advice for researchers into chess history and traces the further development of chess literature well into the 20th century. Topics include today's leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Special attention is given to the columns that appeared in newspapers (national and provincial) and magazines from 1813 onwards. These articles, usually weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere. The lengthy first appendix, an A to Z of almost 600 chess columns, constitutes a detailed research aid. Other appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess.

British Chess Literature to 1914

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631697
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book British Chess Literature to 1914 written by Tim Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to expert. The author combines new information about the early history of the game with advice for researchers into chess history and traces the further development of chess literature well into the 20th century. Topics include today’s leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Special attention is given to the columns that appeared in newspapers (national and provincial) and magazines from 1813 onwards. These articles, usually weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere. The lengthy first appendix, an A to Z of almost 600 chess columns, constitutes a detailed research aid. Other appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess.

The British Chess Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The British Chess Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Steinitz in London

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669538
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Steinitz in London written by Tim Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on new research, this biography of William Steinitz (1836-1900), the first World Chess Champion, covers his early life and career, with a fully-sourced collection of his known games until he left London in 1882. A portrait of mid-Victorian British chess is provided, including a history of the famous Simpson's Divan. Born to a poor Jewish family in Prague, Steinitz studied in Vienna, where his career really began, before moving to London in 1862, bent on conquering the chess world. During the next 20 years, he became its strongest and most innovative player, as well as an influential writer on the game. A foreigner with a quarrelsome nature, he suffered mockery and discrimination from British amateur players and journalists, which eventually drove him to immigrate to America. The final chapters cover his subsequent visits to England and the last three tournaments he played there.

Chess Story

Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175603
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chess Story written by Stefan Zweig and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig’s story. This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work’s unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.

The Grand International Masters' Chess Tournament at St. Petersburg, 1914

Author : Grand International Master's Chess Tournament, 1914 (Leningrad)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Grand International Masters' Chess Tournament at St. Petersburg, 1914 written by Grand International Master's Chess Tournament, 1914 (Leningrad) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chess Theory from Stamma to Steinitz, 1735-1894

Author : Frank Hoffmeister
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664456X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Chess Theory from Stamma to Steinitz, 1735-1894 written by Frank Hoffmeister and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most chess biographies present the games of famous players--but not their writings. Filling that gap, this book begins with Syrian master and author of chess studies Philip Stamma, and finishes with the first world champion William Steinitz. The main novelties in opening, middlegame and endgame theory in the 160 year period are examined and biographical sketches put the contributions of more than 30 masters into context. The author presents many new insights--for example, regarding the origins of the Ponziani Opening, the Dutch Defense and the Petroff Defense. French star La Bourdonnais used other sources for almost every part of his Nouveau Traite. Morphy's analysis of the Philidor Defense was faulty and Anderssen's play included many positional ideas. Harrwitz and Neumann published modern treatises long before Steinitz came out with his Modern Chess Instructor. Many ending themes belong to less well-known authors, such as Cozio, Chapais, van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Sarratt, Kling and Horwitz, Berger and Salvio.

Book Bulletin

Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Book Bulletin written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library

Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why You Lose at Chess

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486149501
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Why You Lose at Chess written by Tim Harding and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of a chess classic analyzes what went wrong in losing games. Focus includes Internet and email play, computer chess, and face-off between Kasparov and Deep Blue.

Monthly Bulletin

Author : St. Louis Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-

How to Beat the Open Games

Author : Sverre Johnsen
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781911465232
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book How to Beat the Open Games written by Sverre Johnsen and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to a set of chess openings that are popular at all levels of play. Open Games are commonly used in the vast majority of scholastic games, but have sufficient richness of ideas that they are also a key battleground at all levels of chess right up to world-championship matches. The author's previous books have been commerically successful.

Eminent Victorian Chess Players

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465689
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Eminent Victorian Chess Players written by Tim Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inventor of the famous gambit, to Isidor Gunsberg, England's first challenger for the world championship, personal narratives are blended with game annotations to reassess players' achievements and character. The author has combined deep reading in primary sources with genealogical research to reveal new facts and correct previous misunderstandings. Major chapters on Howard Staunton and William Steinitz, in particular, highlight the tensions between Englishmen and immigrants, amateurs and professionals. The contrasting long careers of Henry Bird and Joseph Blackburne provide a thread of continuity. The lives of several other important figures in Victorian chess are also presented. More than 160 games (with diagrams), several annotated in detail, and 50 photographs and line drawings are included. Appendices provide career records for all ten; there are extensive notes, a bibliography and indexes.

St. Petersburg 1914

Author : Siegbert Tarrasch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939433179
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book St. Petersburg 1914 written by Siegbert Tarrasch and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games .

Author : Wesley So
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472146212
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games . written by Wesley So and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997 British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph. The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software. This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145 games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.

The Steinitz Papers

Author : William Steinitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786411931
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Steinitz Papers written by William Steinitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz is recognized as the first world champion. More exactly (and thanks to the efforts of the author of this book) he has been officially acknowledged as the first American world chess champion. Luckily for chess scholars, many letters and postcards survive written by Steinitz and his associates, friends and foes. After years of research, numerous personal contacts with people on three continents, and unflagging efforts to acquire any and all known letters to and from Steinitz, the author here presents in their own words a remarkable account of Steinitz and his contemporaries in the chess world of over a century ago. Notable personalities that write or are written about include Lasker, Pillsbury, Zukertort, Bird, Blackburne, Janowski, Tschigorin and Winawer. Each original letter, postcard, scrapbook item, newspaper or chess magazine article or other writing (including three lengthily-negotiated match play agreements) is described along with details of location, ownership, and circumstances of discovery. It is then printed, nearly always in full, in English (many translated from their original German by Landsberger). The author provides a running commentary on the letters and documents, which are generally chronological in arrangement, putting them in context and remarking the significance of certain points made in them. A biographical dictionary at the back of the book offers information about all the many figures who received, sent, or were mentioned in the documents or letters. Some of the games accompanying some of the letters are annotated by modern grandmaster Andy Soltis (Steinitz’s annotations and insights also accompany some). Each game is illustrated. Facsimiles of some of the letters are provided.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Author : Per Skjoldager
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618321
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Aron Nimzowitsch written by Per Skjoldager and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest chess legends of all time, Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), is best known for founding the Hypermodernism school of chess, which emerged after World War I to challenge the chess ideologies of traditional central European masters. This first full-scale biography of Nimzowitsch chronicles his early life in Denmark, his family and education, and his fascination with the game that would become the focus of his life. Also included are explorations of his tournament games and records, his dispute with influential chess teacher Siegbert Tarrasch, and his role in the development of Hypermodern Chess. With detailed accounts of nearly 450 games and the only narrative of Nimzowitsch from 1914 to 1924, a period formerly cloaked in mystery, this volume offers the most thorough profile available of one of chess's greatest innovators.