Billy Colias - Midwest Master

Revised in 2013 by Eric Schiller With Additional Games and New Chess Analysis

Billy Colias - Midwest Master
img
Our Price: $25.95

Catalog Product Code: B0214IS

*Eligible for Media Mail Shipping Details
In Stock Ready To Ship

Be the first to review this product

Share product with a friends & opponents!
img img img img
Stock Qty: 4
Weight: 1.1000
Author: M.L. Rantala & Eric Schiller & Alan Watson
Publication Date: January 5, 2013
Notation Type: AN - Algebraic
Page Count: 224 Pages

Billy Colias was one of the most remarkable players to come out of the Midwest. He overcame many obstacles to become one of the area's top players, and earned the title of FIDE Master before his untimely death in 1993. This book details his life and games, including thrilling victories against both amateur and professional opposition in the Midwest, throughout the United States, and in Europe.

This volume contains 101 games played by Billv Colias. including 15 he annotated himself. Most of the games have never been published elsewhere and the reader will find them not only enjoyable, but also instructive and tilled with original opening ideas. You will become acquainted with a true Midwest Master, and become a better player in the process.

This volume includes contributions and chess games analysis by GM Joel Benjamin, NM Peter Bereolos, GM Arthur Bisguier, FM Ron Burnett, FM Al Chow, FM Billy Colias, FM Greg DeFotis, GM Arnold Denker, GM John Fedorowicz, IM Mark Ginsburg, Fred Gruenberg, GM Dmitry Gurevich, Tim Hernly, Curtis lkeuchi, GM Alexander lvanov, FM Eugene Martinovsky, John Tomas, Helen Warren This volume is revised in 2013 by Eric Schiller with additional games and new chess analysis.

Related Products

  • My Daily Exercises
    365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
    "My Daily Exercises" is a superb collection of 365 exercises designed to help players of all levels recognize patterns, visualize tactics, and identify weak points in their opponent's position.
    img

    My Daily Exercises
    365 Tactical Tests to Improve Your Chess
    Catalog Code: B0101NIC

    Regular Price: $17.95

    Special Price: $7.18


  • Secrets of Chess Training
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
    The world's top trainer, Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov, present a five-volume series based on courses given to talented young players throughout the world. The books contain contributions by other leading trainers and grandmasters, as well as games by pupils who have attended the courses.
    img

    Secrets of Chess Training
    Dvoretsky School of Future Chess Champions - VOLUME 1
    Catalog Code: B0006OE
    Our Price: $34.95

  • Masters of the Chessboard
    21st Century Edition
    Ask most chessplayers about the works by Richard Reti, and most will quickly reply Modern Ideas in Chess. His Masters of the Chessboard will be a distant second and that is unfortunate, because in many ways Masters is more comprehensive and instructive than its better-known predecessor.
    img

    Masters of the Chessboard
    21st Century Edition
    Catalog Code: B0056RE
    Our Price: $19.95

  • The Art of the Checkmate
    Learn from 127 games by Tartakower, Janowski, Rubinstein, Blackburne, others, illustrating positional maneuvers leading to these mates. Review quizzes test progress.
    img

    The Art of the Checkmate
    Catalog Code: B0052DV
    Our Price: $9.95

  • Understanding Your Chess
    Learning from Your Games and Improve Your Results
    Rizzitano presents lessons from his own experiences that will be most relevant to club and tournament players. He shows how by analyzing their own games, players can gain a greater understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, and he explains they can shape their approach to chess to make the most of their abilities. Major topics include: Developing a reliable and coherent opening repertoire; The importance of understanding opening theory rather than simply memorizing it.
    img

    Understanding Your Chess
    Learning from Your Games and Improve Your Results
    Catalog Code: B0110GB
    Our Price: $14.95

  • EBOOK - Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
    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.
    img

    EBOOK - Study Chess with Matthew Sadler
    Catalog Code: E-B0357EM
    Our Price: $19.95

  • The System
    A World Champion's Approach to Chess
    Hans Berliner is one of the most successful correspondence chess players of all time, and was utterly dominant in the 5th World Championship. Here, for the first time, he explains the set of principles - The System - that he used to guide him to the right moves. Readers will be astonished by the simplicity and power of Berliner's methods as he takes several major openings and subjects them to System principles, and finds radically new approaches to them.
    img

    The System
    A World Champion's Approach to Chess
    Catalog Code: B0098GB
    Our Price: $14.95

  • FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 31 - Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack
    1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4! has hit the headlines following its use by chess superstars Vladimir Kramnik and Alexei Shirov. The critical White response is 3.Nd5 leading to exciting, double-edged positions where home preparation is crucial. GM Conquest charts a path through the complications, suggesting independent plans for Black to adopt should White duck the issue and avoid 3.Nd5.
    img

    FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 31 - Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack
    Catalog Code: DVD0031FX
    Our Price: $24.95

  • New Ideas in Chess
    How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
    Finally One if the Most Influential Chess Books ever is back! Five- time U.S Champion Larry Evans shows you the most important concepts that comprise a winning chess game: Space, Time, Force & Pawn Structure.In a book that has been called the "bible" for novice to intermediate player," this newly revised classic use actual game examples to illustrate dozens of chess themes.
    img

    New Ideas in Chess
    How to use Space, Time, Force and Pawn Structure to Become a Winning Chess Player
    Catalog Code: B0051CZ
    Our Price: $14.95

  • The Basics of Winning Chess
    One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
    Nine information-packed chapters and twenty-two diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. You'll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation.
    img

    The Basics of Winning Chess
    One Quick Reading Shows You How to Be a Winner!
    Catalog Code: B0020CZ
    Our Price: $4.95

Tell us what you think about this item!
lb