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Best Lessons of a Chess Coach

Author : Sunil Weeramantry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936277902
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Best Lessons of a Chess Coach written by Sunil Weeramantry and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills. Questions such as: - "Who has the better position?"- "Should I resolve the tension in the center?"- "How can I improve the placement of my pieces?"In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, the reader is invited to take a seat in the classroom of a renowned chess teacher, and learn how to answer such questions while experiencing the beauty, logic, and artistry of great chess games. When Sunil Weeramantry lectures on the games of top grandmasters, one can imagine making decisions alongside them. When he lectures on his own games, one can also experience the personal excitement, disappointment, and satisfaction of a well-contested game of chess. The cumulative effect of studying these lessons is to give the aspiring player a wide range of tools with which to win.

Improve Your Chess at Any Age

Author : Andres D. Hortilosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857446180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Improve Your Chess at Any Age written by Andres D. Hortilosa and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.

Revolutionize Your Chess

Author : Viktor Moskalenko
Publisher : New In Chess,Csi
ISBN 13 : 9789056912956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Revolutionize Your Chess by : Viktor Moskalenko

Download or read book Revolutionize Your Chess written by Viktor Moskalenko and published by New In Chess,Csi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Ukrainian Champion Moskalenko, who coached Vasily Ivanchuk to stardom, presents a fundamentally new approach of getting better at chess. Covering all aspects of the game, Moskalenko develops new and easy-to-apply rules-of-thumb for amateur players who want to improve. With many examples, tests and exercises, this is the ultimate modern chess skills improvement manual. Easy to read and understand; even weaker players will benefit from Moskalenko's breakdown of the material, wrote Carsten Hansen at ChessCafe about Moskalenko's previous book 'The Flexible French'.

Modern Ideas in Chess

Author : Richard Reti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258823153
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Modern Ideas in Chess written by Richard Reti and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Ideas in Chess is a series of 45 essays dealing with the evolution of game, its leading players, their ideas and contributions to their respective periods. The chronology starts in the Romantic era of Anders-sen and Morphy, continues through the Classical School of Steinitz, Tarrasch, Lasker, and runs to the dawn of the Hypermodern Revolution; the 70 year stretch from 1852 to 1922. Working in small chunks Rti had to be selective in what he extracted from each player and period. Plus the individual elements all had to tie in with the larger canvass Rti was painting for his readers. You dont have to get too far into the book to realize that Rti was a creative artist using the tension of chess ideas to reflect the larger intellectual struggle of mankind. How does Rti do it? A solid chess foundation obviously helps, also keen observation of the human experience coupled with a powerful command of language. Together these serve up indelible images that stick in the mind of the reader and lift this work far above the ordinary. Modern Ideas in Chess is one of the rare books that transcends the time frame in which it was written. It stands on its own, timeless, one of the true classics in the literature of the game.

The KGB Plays Chess

Author : Yuri Felshtinsky
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936490013
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The KGB Plays Chess written by Yuri Felshtinsky and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB, on the one hand, and several brave individuals, on the other. Their names are famous in the chess world: Viktor Kortschnoi, Boris Spasski, Boris Gulko and Garry Kasparov became subjects of constant pressure, blackmail and persecution in the USSR. Their victories at the chess board were achieved despite this victimization. Unlike in other books, this story has two perspectives. The victim and the persecutor, the hunted and the hunter, all describe in their own words the very same events. One side is represented by the famous Russian chess players Viktor Kortschnoi and Boris Gulko. For many years they fought against a powerful system, and at the end they were triumphant. The Soviet Union collapsed and they got what they were fighting for: their freedom. Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov, who left Russia in 1996 and now lives in Canada, was one of those who had worked all his life for the KGB and was responsible for the sport sector of the USSR. It is only now for the first time that he has decided to tell the reader his story of the KGB�s involvement in Soviet Sports. This is his first book, and it is not only full of sensations, but it also dares to name names of secret KGB agents previously known only as famous chess masters, sportsmen or sport officials. Just a few short years ago a book like this would have been unimaginable. Read this book. It is not only about chess. It is about glorious victory of the great chess masters over the forces of darkness.

The Moves That Matter

Author : Jonathan Rowson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635573335
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Moves That Matter written by Jonathan Rowson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chess grandmaster reveals the powerful teachings this ancient game offers for staying present, thriving in a complex world, and crafting a fulfilling life. Refined and perfected through 1,500 years of human history, chess has long been a touchstone for shrewd tacticians and master strategists. But the game is much more than just warfare in miniature. Chess is also an ever-shifting puzzle to be solved, a narrative to be written, and a task that demands players create their own motivation from moment to moment. In other words, as Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson argues in this kaleidoscopic and inspiring book, there are ways to see all of life reflected in those 64 black and white squares. Taking us inside the psychologically charged world of chess's global elite, Rowson mines the game for its insights into sustaining focus, quieting our inner saboteur, making tough decisions, overcoming failure, and more. He peels back the beguiling logic of chess to reveal the timeless wisdom underneath. This exhilarating tour ranges from learning how to love our mistakes to considering why people are like trees; from the mysteries of parenting to the beauty of technical details, to the endgame of death. Throughout, chess emerges as a powerful and accessible metaphor for the thrills and setbacks that fill our daily lives with meaning and beauty.

The Complete Chess Swindler

Author : David Smerdon
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056919121
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Chess Swindler written by David Smerdon and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess is a cruel game. We all know that feeling when your position has gone awry and everything seems hopeless. You feel like resigning. But don’t give up! This is precisely the moment to switch to swindle mode. Master the art of provoking errors and you will be able to turn the tables and escape with a draw – or sometimes even steal the full point! Swindling is a skill that can be trained. In this book, David Smerdon shows how you can use tricks from psychology to marshal hidden resources and exploit your opponent’s biases. In a lost position, your best practical chance often lies not in the computer’s best moves, but in playing your opponent – however bad the evaluation! With an abundance of eye-popping examples and training exercises, Smerdon identifies the four best friends of every chess swindler: your opponent’s impatience, their hubris, their fear, and their need to stay in control. You’ll also learn about such cunning swindling motifs as the Trojan Horse, the decoy trap, the berserk attack, and ‘window-ledging’. So, come and join the Swindlers’ Club, become a great escape artist and dramatically improve your results. In this instructive and wildly entertaining guide, Smerdon shows you how.

All the Wrong Moves

Author : Sasha Chapin
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385545185
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book All the Wrong Moves written by Sasha Chapin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling journey into the world of chess--a story of heartbreak, obsession, failure, and the hunger for greatness Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot how to care about anything else. He played at all hours, for weeks at a time. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it. And so, he thought, if he can't defeat his obsession, he had to succumb to it. All the Wrong Moves traces Chapin's rollicking two-year journey around the globe in search of glory. Along the way, he chronicles the highs and lows of his fixation, driven on this quest by lust, terror, and the elusive possibility of victory. Stylish, inventive, and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Wrong Moves is a celebration of the purity, violence, and beauty of the game.

More Chess Openings

Author : Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067179499X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book More Chess Openings written by Bruce Pandolfini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-12-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandolfini, who will be the commentator for the 1993 World Chess Championships in Los Angeles this fall, illustrates 200 new and effective moves for the challenging first phase of the game, explaining strategies and principles in a clear and understandable way. 200 line drawings.

Reflections Beyond the Mirror

Author : Feltus Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465327193
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Reflections Beyond the Mirror written by Feltus Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-03-17 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted architect Jamal Jameson and award winning TV news reporter Tory Carter, friends since childhood, are faced with the challenge of controlling their appetite for the opposite sex. As former star collegiate athletes and now handsome single black professionals, meeting women has never been a problem. With a flair for artful conversation, they float like sexual butterflies from one leaf to another. Commitment has always been outside their flight pattern. Jamals romantic and compassionate personality captures hearts, yet unexpectedly, he begins to question his revolving door policy. Torys handsome, egotistical persona drives his need to cover as many women as he does news stories. For him, it is the only way to live. Philosophical differences push their lifelong friendship as Jamal realizes through a chance meeting with a stranger, that his way of relating to women is as shallow as his best friend and that his way of dealing with them has lacked the most important ingredient

Reflection

Author : Tim Bright
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543414125
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Reflection written by Tim Bright and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an attempt to review my life and develop meaning from it. I've had various experiences over a long life, good and bad, and many that don't fit any category. Within each I perceived some relevance to who I am today which I take forward and make it my own.

Free-to-Play

Author : Christopher A. Paul
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360527
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Free-to-Play written by Christopher A. Paul and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games. Free-to-play and mobile video games are an important and growing part of the video game industry, and yet they are often disparaged by journalists, designers, and players and pronounced inferior to to games with more traditional payment models. In this book, Christopher Paul shows that underlying the criticism is a bias against these games that stems more from who is making and playing them than how they are monetized. Free-to-play and mobile games appeal to a different kind of player, many of whom are women and many of whom prefer different genres of games than multi-level action-oriented killing fests. It's not a coincidence that some of the few free-to-play games that have been praised by games journalists are League of Legends and World of Tanks.

Music and Chess

Author : Achilleas Zographos
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1941270735
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Music and Chess written by Achilleas Zographos and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Most Fascinating Journey! It has long been recognized that there are only three major areas of human endeavor which produce prodigies: music, chess and mathematics. This does not occur by happenstance. There are links on many levels. Now, for the first time, Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa examines the yet unexplored relation of chess to music. Mathematics is a main common denominator, a fact that is highlighted accordingly. The thesis of this extraordinarily researched book is that chess is art in itself. It can create art and is strongly related to mathematics and music. As becomes clear, this relationship has already been introduced by some legendary players such as Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Kramnik . Great artists such as John Cage, Marcel Duchamp and Arnold Schönberg, to name but a few, have also been fascinated by the very same idea. Surprisingly, this has not been explored in detail so far – only some sporadic articles exist, by authors specializing in either music or chess. There are chapters that address issues which are specialized in chess and music, while others cover related issues of general, social and artistic nature. Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa can be appreciated by readers who have a good, general, though non-specific background, in both fields. That is, no technical knowledge of music is required, with the only prerequisite to fully appreciate the text being the understanding of standard chess rules. The text could be equally enlightening to students of music or mathematics, as an added intellectual insight into these two disciplines. The text is supplemented by many chess diagrams, charts, and over 50 full-color images. So, turn on the music, set up chessboard, get out the calculator and let the author take you on a most fascinating journey that is Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa.

The Chess Set in the Mirror

Author : Massimo Bontempelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589880313
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Chess Set in the Mirror written by Massimo Bontempelli and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who is being punished finds himself transported to the strange world on the other side of a mirror, where he encounters living chess pieces, as well as everything and everyone that was ever reflected in the mirror.

Chess in the Eighties

Author : David Bronstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871874991
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Chess in the Eighties written by David Bronstein and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection

Author : Angelika Zirker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110406845
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection written by Angelika Zirker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions – it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker’s character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in everyday communication and opens up the possibility to analyze literary texts from a linguistic perspective. The first two volumes of the series The Dynamics of Wordplay therefore aim at bringing together contributions from linguistics and literary studies, focusing on theoretical issues such as basic techniques of wordplay, and its relationship to genres and discourse traditions. These issues are complemented by a series of case studies on the use of wordplay in individual authors and specific historical contexts. The contributions offer a fresh look on the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay in different communicative settings.

Provability, Computability and Reflection

Author : Lev D. Beklemishev
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080957404
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Provability, Computability and Reflection written by Lev D. Beklemishev and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Logic publishes monographs and occasionally edited volumes in the area of mathematical logic and its applications.