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Chessboard Magic!

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871875721
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Chessboard Magic! written by Irving Chernev and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the chessplayer, composed endings are an inexhaustible source of entertainment-and this book contains 160 of the most beautiful, most brilliant endings ever composed. These compositions are remarkable enough to justify the title of the volume - Cbessboard Magic! The positions are not arranged by theme, or composers, or alphabetically. The arrangement is haphazard - and purposely so, for your enjoyment. Each ending is meant to give you a fresh surprise. Difficult positions with countless variations have not been included, as this book is meant for pure enjoyment! Not drudgery. Only those endings which display rich originality have been selected. You may want to solve the endings (it is easy enough to cover up the solutions which are right underneath each ending, on the same page) but it is just as much fun to playing the solutions, as the ideas will prove startling enough. This book not only has a happy ending - it has 160 of them!

The Grand Chatrang Game

Author : Kuanysh-Beck Sazanov
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496997190
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Chatrang Game written by Kuanysh-Beck Sazanov and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a completely new look at the fundamentals of global geopolitical architecture and the sources of international conflicts. This research extends the scope of geopolitical analysis to encompass the entire globe through a comparative historical analysis of major religious, cultural, and civilizational aspects of development of different regions of the world, which are responsible for development of a system of political legacies peculiar to each of them. The book attempts to find the deep-rooted sources of the long-lasting international conflicts, where each of them has the potential to grow into full-fledged global war. In addition, it proposes a multipolar structure of the new global geopolitical order, which is more coherent with the true nature of different and very versatile societies of the world.

Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers

Author : Jan Gullberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393040029
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers by : Jan Gullberg

Download or read book Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers written by Jan Gullberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-01-07 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of mathematics and its history, beginning with a study of numbers and their symbols, and continuing with a broad survey that includes consideration of algebra, geometry, hyperbolic functions, fractals, and many other mathematical functions.

200 Brilliant Endgames

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486147983
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book 200 Brilliant Endgames written by Irving Chernev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an instruction book and an engaging meditation on the joys of chess, this is the final work by one of the most successful chess writers of all time. Irving Chernev blends anecdotes with his observations on inspiring moves and combinations by well- and lesser-known players, including Troitzky, Réti, Kasparyan, Benko, Kubbel, Rinck, Grigoriev, and many others. Each example is introduced with a cue ("White to play and win") and includes the composer's name, the date of its original publication if available, a clear diagram with an algebraic grid, and the winning variation presented in algebraic notion. Chernev's sparkling text is complemented by introductions by national Master Bruce Pandolfini and Adam Hart-Davis, an editor who worked with Chernev and who helped assemble this posthumous publication. Appropriate for players at every level, 200 Brilliant Endgames promises to assist chess enthusiasts in sharpening their endgame skills and to enhance their pleasure and satisfaction in the game.

The King's Chessboard

Author : David Birch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140548807
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The King's Chessboard written by David Birch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterfully told.”—School Library Journal A great story for children learning mathematical concepts, The King’s Chessboard tells the story of a wise man who refuses the king’s reward for completing a favor. When the king insists the man accept a reward, the man proposes a deal: He will take a payment of rice equal to each square on the king’s chessboard—doubling the amount he receives with each day. This quickly empties out the royal coffers. . . . A Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children

The Magic of Chess Tactics

Author : Karsten Muller
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1941270859
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Chess Tactics written by Karsten Muller and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess is 99% tactics. So to be a good chess player, you have to spend a lot of your training time on tactics. Although basic tactics are explained in a number good books, complicated tactics the kind that separate tournament winners from the pack require intuition, imagination and precision. The Magic of Chess Tactics helps you develop these qualities. Aimed primarily at aspiring chess players from club to master level who seriously want to improve their chess understanding, The Magic of Chess Tactics provides examples selected for both their entertainment and instructional value as well as detailed explanations and exercises. Claus Dieter Meyer, chess author and FIDE Master, is a well-known analyst and professional chess trainer. Karsten Muller is an International Grandmaster and co-author, along with Frank Lamprecht, of the highly acclaimed Secrets of Pawn Endings and œFundamental Chess Endings. "I have come to realise that there are basically two types of chess tactics. First, simple kinds of combinations you need to know when you start to play chess. I still believe they are the basis of everything. Things that computers see in a half-second. But the book is not about them. For those simple tactics, old Koblentz books are more than enough. This book is about *complicated* chess tactics, the kind you sometimes need hours of analysis just to discover the truth of the position. It's hard to see and calculate perfectly on the board; one needs intuition, imagination and precision. "It's not easy to develop these qualities but I believe that the present book, full of examples and high quality analyses, will help you achieve that objective. Welcome to the magical world of tactics!" From the Foreword by Alexei Shirov

Mathematics and Chess

Author : Miodrag Petkovi?
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486294322
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Chess written by Miodrag Petkovi? and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 99 puzzles built around the chessboard. Arithmetical and probability problems, chessboard recreations, geometrical puzzles, mathematical amusements and games, more. Solutions.

King of the Celts

Author : Jean Markale
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892814527
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book King of the Celts written by Jean Markale and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Celtic historian re-creates the life and times of the real King Arthur and explains how even today Arthurian ideals of knightly virtue remain at the heart of Western thought.

White King and Red Queen

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547133379
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book White King and Red Queen written by Daniel Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.

Across the Board

Author : John J. Watkins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154988
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Across the Board written by John J. Watkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the mathematics of the chessboard and its problems, focusing on its history, the knight's tour problem, magic squares, domination, other variations, and independence.

Capablanca's Best Chess Endings

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138445
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Capablanca's Best Chess Endings written by Irving Chernev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV60 complete games, annotated throughout but emphasizing endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art. /div

Combinations

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157865
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Combinations written by Irving Chernev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Chernev's outstanding chess books earn him a high rank among the world's top chess authors. In this well-annotated text, Mr. Chernev guides his readers to an understanding of the subtleties of combinative play. Step-by-step from the simplest combinations to the most complex, the book explains the intricacies of pins and counter-pins, Knight forks, smothered mates, and other elements of combination play. There is a discussion in chapter five of combinations lurking in roads not taken — alternate lines of play show up in Chernev's notes to the game, while the sixth chapter, "Convincing the Kibitzers," shows the second-guessers what would have happened had the masters done the obvious. (Some disastrous combinations show up here.) A host of boomerangs follow — cases where the player didn't look far enough ahead and his combination, instead of bringing about the opponent's ruin, paved the way to his defeat. Chapters eight through twenty one take up combinations used by such great players as Tarrasch, Botvinnik, Nimzovich, Steinitz, Rubinstein, and Pillsbury; the sacrificial combinations of Anderssen and Spielmann; the dazzling brilliancies of Morphy, Keres, and Alekhine; the deadly attacks of Marshall; the almost unfathomable ideas of Lasker; and the matchless creations of Capablanca. Mr. Chernev's thoughtful annotations unravel the secrets of each of these plans. A diagram accompanies each combination; an index, by player, leads the reader to the combination he is looking for.

Handbook of Arthurian Romance

Author : Leah Tether
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311043248X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Arthurian Romance written by Leah Tether and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.

Practical Chess Endings

Author : Irving Chernev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486222080
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Practical Chess Endings written by Irving Chernev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1969-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 300 practical endgame situations, ranging from very simple to masterpieces by Capablanca, Reti, Tarrasch, Lasker, more.

Studies in Arthurian Illustration Vol II

Author : Alison Stones
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837103
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Arthurian Illustration Vol II written by Alison Stones and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Paris. She is a specialist in illuminated manuscripts, co-authoring Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes (1993), The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, A Critical Edition (1998), and writing Le Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 16251) (1997), and Gautier de Coinci, Miracles, Music and Manuscripts (2006). Her four-volume study, Manuscripts Illuminated in France, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320 was published in 2013 and 2014. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Correspondant etranger honoraire of the Societe nationale des Antiquaires de France and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. These two volumes collect and update Professor Stones's papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, one of her continuing passions. These essays explore aspects of the iconography of the romances of Chretien de Troyes in French verse, the lengthy Lancelot-Grail romance in French prose, and other versions of the chivalrous exploits of King Arthur's knights - the best-sellers of the Middle Ages. Illustrated copies of these romances survive in huge numbers from the early thirteenth century through the beginnings of print, and were read for their text and their pictures throughout the French-speaking world. Of special interest is the cultural context in which these popular works were made and disseminated, by scribes and artists whose work encompassed all kinds of books, for patrons whose collecting was wide-ranging, including secular books alongside works of liturgical and devotional interest.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1945 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-12 (1944)

Deep Thinking

Author : Garry Kasparov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397878
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Deep Thinking written by Garry Kasparov and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.