BOOKS ABOUT WORLD CHAMPIONS

    Meet the Masters
    The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
    Meet the Masters contains the biographies of the eight strongest players in the world at that time. It includes their histories, photographs, games and an analysis and critique of their playing styles. Each of these eight players had been invited to the historic tournament at AVRO 1938, regarded as the strongest chess tournament ever held prior to modern times. The eight players generally regarded as the strongest in the world were: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, future champion Mikhail Botvinnik and challengers Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr.
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    Meet the Masters
    The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
    Catalog Code: B0112IS
    Our Price: $25.95

    Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?
    This is a book in Descriptive Chess Notation of great importance not only because of the question it addresses, but because of who asks and then answers that question. Dr. Max Euwe, who was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937, compares and contrasts Bobby Fischer with the three greatest players before him, world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.
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    Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?
    Catalog Code: B0108IS
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    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 1
    Anderssen & Morphy Queen Sacrifices
    In World Champion Chess Tactics! Volume 1, International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley shows you how Q sacrifices played a role in crucial victories in his own career.
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    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 1
    Anderssen & Morphy Queen Sacrifices
    Catalog Code: B0064OB
    Our Price: $14.95

    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 2
    Steinitz, Chigorin & Blackburne Queen Sacrifices
    In World Champion Chess Tactics! Volume 2, International Grandmaster Ron W. Henley shows you how £ sacrifices played a role throughout the career of the First Official World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. We then examine Q sacrifice highlights of the careers of "The Father of Russian Chess" Mikhail Chigorin, "The Black Death" Joseph Blackburne and "Russia's Chess Teacher" Emanuel Schiffers.
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    World Champion Chess Tactics - VOLUME 2
    Steinitz, Chigorin & Blackburne Queen Sacrifices
    Catalog Code: B0065OB
    Our Price: $14.95

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