2005

    Pal Benko
    My Life, Games and Compositions
    Grandmaster Pal Benko is a chess legend: A challenger for the World Championship, an innovator of many modern opening systems, a problem composer par excellence, and a father figure to his close friend Bobby Fischer, Benko has played and defeated most of the top players of the last fifty years. This biography is a celebration of a great man's creative legacy.
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    Pal Benko
    My Life, Games and Compositions
    Catalog Code: B0005SI
    Our Price: $44.95

    Ostende 1906
    International Chess Tournament
    Finally this complex and great tournament appears just about one hundred years after it occurred. Schlechter won by a slight margin in a very complicated series of qualifying sections. Gillam worked hard with a dedicated band of helpers to track down all the known games, graced in most cases with notes, of that era.
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    Ostende 1906
    International Chess Tournament
    Catalog Code: B0005CA
    Our Price: $48.95

    Chess Bitch
    Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
    Chess Bitch, written by the 2004 U.S. Woman's Chess Champion, is an eye-opening account of how today's young female chess players are successfully knocking down the doors to this traditionally male game, infiltrating the male-owned sporting subculture of international chess, and giving the phrase "play like a girl" a whole new meaning.
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    Chess Bitch
    Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Game
    Catalog Code: B0004SI
    Our Price: $23.95

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