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Chess with My Grandfather

Author : Ariel Magnus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857427953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Chess with My Grandfather written by Ariel Magnus and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new life for himself. But with the storm clouds of war gathering over Europe, the Politeama Theatre in Buenos Aires is chosen as the venue for the Chess Tournament of Nations. The world's eyes are suddenly fixed on Heinz's newly adopted city. Heinz and a colorful cast of characters--drawn from real life, the author's imagination, and stolen from the pages of Stefan Zweig--find themselves caught up in a web of political intrigue, romantic entanglements, and sporting competition that seems to hold the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Ariel Magnus leaves no stone unturned in his efforts to learn more about his grandfather and the country to which he emigrated in the 1930s. Chess with My Grandfather is a playful, genre-shifting novel combining tales of international espionage, documentary evidence, and family lore. In this extraordinary book, Magnus blends fact and fiction in a delirious exploration of a dark period of history, family, identity, the power of art and literature and, of course, the fascinating world of chess.

Sultan Khan

Author : Daniel King
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056918761
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Sultan Khan written by Daniel King and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little formal education and barely spoke English. He had learned the rules of Western chess only three years earlier, yet within a few months he created a sensation by becoming the British Empire champion. Sultan Khan was taken to England by Sir Umar Hayat Khan, an Indian nobleman and politician who used his servant’s successes to promote his own interests in the turbulent years before India gained independence. Sultan Khan remained in Europe for the best part of five years, competing with the leading chess players of the era, including World Champion Alexander Alekhine and former World Champion Jose Raoul Capablanca. His unorthodox style often stunned his opponents, as Daniel King explains in his examination of the key games and tournaments in Khan’s career. Daniel King has uncovered a wealth of new facts about Khan, as well as dozens of previously unknown games. For the first time he tells the full story of how Khan, a Muslim outsider, was received in Europe, of his successes in the chess world and his return to obscurity after his departure for India in 1933.

Seven Games: A Human History

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

The Immortal Game

Author : David Shenk
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307387666
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain. Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. Here, bestselling author David Shenk chronicles its intriguing saga, from ancient Persia to medieval Europe to the dens of Benjamin Franklin and Norman Schwarzkopf. Along the way, he examines a single legendary game that took place in London in 1851 between two masters of the time, and relays his own attempts to become as skilled as his Polish ancestor Samuel Rosenthal, a nineteenth-century champion. With its blend of cultural history and Shenk’s lively personal narrative, The Immortal Game is a compelling guide for novices and aficionados alike.

The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles

Author : Graham Burgess
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781906454289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles written by Graham Burgess and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving tactical puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your chess. This convenient book provides 300 exercises, with instructive points highlighted in the solutions. There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances - there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack. Later chapters help readers develop a vital skill: the ability to make tough chessboard decisions. Attack, sacrifice, grab material, defend or simplify - it's for you to decide! Principles and guidelines are emphasized, together with common sources of error. The final section of puzzles will prove a stern challenge even for the best players, with the reader exposed to the full complexity of modern chess - with a few helpful hints along the way.

Duchamp's Pipe

Author : Celia Rabinovitch
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623173574
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Duchamp's Pipe written by Celia Rabinovitch and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2021 Vine Awards Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp's Pipe explores the remarkable friendship between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man's rise to prominence, the chess matches that sparked their relationship, and the recently discovered pipe that Duchamp gave to Koltanowski. This tale of genius and resilience offers fresh insights into the essence of the gift in the bohemian underground. Rabinovitch invites us to discover the chess wizard and a Duchamp slightly off pedestal--and ultimately more human.

Physical Chess

Author : Jake Shannon
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770902155
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Physical Chess written by Jake Shannon and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most legendary men in mixed-martial arts.

The Grandmaster

Author : Brin-Jonathan Butler
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501172611
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmaster written by Brin-Jonathan Butler and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bravura performance…An entertaining book” (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport. The first week of November 2016, hundreds of people descended on New York City’s South Street Seaport to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin. By the time it was over would be front-page news and thought by many the greatest finish in chess history. With both Carlsen and Karjakin just twenty-five years old, it was the first time the championship had been waged among those who grew up playing chess against computers. Originally from Crimea, Karjakin had recently repatriated to Russia under the direct assistance of Putin. Carlsen, meanwhile, had expressed admiration for Donald Trump, and the first move of the tournament he played was called a Trompowsky Attack. Then there was the Russian leader of the World Chess Federation being barred from attending due to US sanctions, and chess fanatic and Trump adviser Peter Thiel being called on to make the honorary first move in sudden death. That the tournament even required sudden death was a shock. Oddsmakers had given Carlsen, the defending champion, an eighty percent chance of winning. It would take everything he had to retain his title. Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament and watched every move. The Grandmaster “is not the usual chronicle of a world-championship chess match….Butler offers insight into what it takes to become the best chess player on the planet...A vibrant and provocative look at chess and its metaphorical battle for territory and power” (Booklist).

Back to Basics: Tactics

Author : Dan Heisman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936490145
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Back to Basics: Tactics written by Dan Heisman and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!

The Immortal Game

Author : David Shenk
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673787
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy.In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed, as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may be for individuals what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter.

Study Chess with Matthew Sadler

Author : Matthew Sadler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857449907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Study Chess with Matthew Sadler written by Matthew Sadler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Sadler is one of the UK's strongest ever players. He became a grandmaster at 19, won the British Championship twice and, amongst other amazing achievements, made a gold medal winning score of 101⁄2/13 on board four for England in the 1996 chess Olympiad. In 2000 Matthew quite full-time chess. However, he re-emerged ten years later in 2010 to play a rapidplay tournament in Wageningen, Holland which he promptly won with 7/7. In 2011 he played in strong international events at Barcelona and Oslo and won them with the Fischer-like scores of 81⁄2/10 and 8/9 respectively. After a decade away from the game, these results are simply astounding. Matthew's extraordinary ability at chess stems not simply from natural talent but is based on a brilliant aptitude for preparing the game. He understands exactly what needs to be studied and how to go about it. In this book he recounts how he organised the preparation for his 'comeback' and from his results the success of this method is self-evident. In this book Matthew shares his secrets and reveals how to: * Incorporate unorthodox openings into your repertoire* Study middlegame situations* Understand what is important in the endgame

The Psychology of Chess

Author : William Roland Hartston
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780871962263
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Chess written by William Roland Hartston and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the psychological motivation of chess players and discusses the role of subjective and irrational considerations in influencing a chess player's decisions

Chess Gladiator

Author : Asa Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chess Gladiator written by Asa Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen

Author : Adrian Mikhalchishin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783283010201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen written by Adrian Mikhalchishin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents detailed annotations to sixty-four of the best games of Magnus Carlsen, an elite and well-known chess player.

Bedtime Chess a Knight Story

Author : Daniel Hallback
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955364089
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Bedtime Chess a Knight Story written by Daniel Hallback and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Bedtime Chess Series. Each book provides an overview of how the piece moves. This series will teach your little ones the basics of chess while giving them life lessons. They will learn to think ahead and strategies of chess such as pins, forks, and skewers.This book focuses on the Knight . It teaches how the knights move and team building strategies.

Chess

Author : Henry Ingram
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530776979
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Chess written by Henry Ingram and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete A-Z Guide For Every Aspiring Chess Player How can 'Chess: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Playing Chess: Chess Openings, Endgame and Important Strategies' take you from complete beginner to consistent winner? Get a full understanding of the rules of the game.Learn about the individual rule set of each piece, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.A full breakdown of competition chess rules, including; the 50 move rule, the touch-move rule, notation and game recording, overtime and penalties.Become aware of the irregularities and illegal moves of the game.A detailed guide to three of the most essential opening strategies - Ruy Lopez, Sicilian Defense and the Italian Game. Full coverage of nine defensive opening strategies.Full coverage of nine offensive opening strategies.How to create a victory from your opening moves. It's time to take chess skills to new heights. It's time to beat your friends and family. Get educated and dominate your games from now on wards! Grab "Chess: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Playing Chess: Chess Openings, Endgame and Important Strategies" now and learn how to take your game to the next level.

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays

Author : Harvard Crimson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312206475
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays written by Harvard Crimson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful collection of successful samples completed by Harvard students, compiled by the student-run newspaper, "The Harvard Crimson, " analyses each essay to point out effective and diverse ways to write an essay and the common pitfalls to avoid.