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Pal Benko
My Life, Games and Compositions
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.
Pal Benko
My Life, Games and Compositions
Catalog Code: B0005SI
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Paul Keres - The Quest for Perfection
Inspiration and Instruction for Chess Players of All Levels
Inspiration and Instruction for Chess Players of All Levels
Paul Keres was one of the greatest players in chess history and a leading contender for the world championship for over 30 years. His modest, honest and open-minded approach to chess made him popular with chess enthusiasts the world over. These qualities come over supremely well in his writing.
Paul Keres - The Quest for Perfection
Inspiration and Instruction for Chess Players of All Levels
Catalog Code: B0037BT
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Paul Keres - The Road to the Top
Paul Keres was one of the greatest players in chess history and a leading contender for the world championship for over 30 years. His modest, honest and open-minded approach to chess made him popular with chess enthusiasts the world over. These qualities come over supremely well in his writing.
Paul Keres - The Road to the Top
Catalog Code: B0036BT
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Paul Morphy
Translated by Robert Sherwood from the 1909 edition published in Germany. Maroczy was the strongest player who ever annotated all of Morphy's games and thus to non-German language readers, it should be of special interest, especially since the standards for analytical notes were far higher even in 1909 than were accepted when these games were played.
Paul Morphy
Catalog Code: B0023CA
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Paul Morphy - The Pride and Sorrow of Chess
Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time.
Paul Morphy - The Pride and Sorrow of Chess
Catalog Code: B0031OB
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Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory
This book, about the best chess player of the nineteenth century, analyzes Paul Morphy's games and positions in depth to reveal the essence of his style. The first collection in English of all 413 of Morphy's known games, the volume discusses other players of the period (Adolph Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz), Morphy's rare blunders and omissions, as well as selected endgames and openings.
Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory
Catalog Code: B0030DV
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Petrosian the Powerful
Short Description for Petrosian The Powerful - CB0055CD
Petrosian the Powerful
Catalog Code: CB0055CD
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Petrosian's Legacy
This book was originally published in Russian as Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian Chess Lectures. The publisher was Soviet Radio. Every chess enthusiast should have this important work in his chess library.
Petrosian's Legacy
Catalog Code: B0150IS
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Pillsbury the Extraordinary
Soltis's research has found material found no where else! He was a chess meteor brilliantly streaking across the sky in only two years after learning the moves. He came and went quickly, this Harry Nelson Pillsbury. But while he was here, he left something for you - his extraordinary life and games. You will learn from his style that mixed and combined that or Steinitz and Morphy. Between 1896-1902, he may have been the best player in the world, superior even to World Champion Lasker. You are going to be a part of history and beautiful games with this book on Pillsbury the Extraordinary! There's a diagram every 3 moves, like a movie, to help you exercise your powers of visualization.
Pillsbury the Extraordinary
Catalog Code: CB0033CD
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Profession - Chessplayer
Grandmaster at Work
Grandmaster at Work
You are now invited to join the author in a very personal autobiographical journey, as he traces his development from one of many gifted chessplaying children to a powerful international grandmaster, a member of the world's chess elite.
Profession - Chessplayer
Grandmaster at Work
Catalog Code: B0057RE
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REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film.
REMAINDER - Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
Catalog Code: B0009RM
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Reshevsky on Chess
Revealing the winning technique for the first time, the United States Chess Champion presents 110 of the best games, instructively analyzed. The book includes an autobiography of Reshevsky's career – from his youth as a chess prodigy to his latest exploits. This is the authoritative work where Samuel Reshevsky explains his remarkable and amazing career. He started his chess career as the greatest child prodigy in chess history, playing nearly master strength chess when he was eight years old. He went on a tour first of Europe and then America, giving simultaneous chess exhibitions against adults and winning almost every game.
Reshevsky on Chess
Catalog Code: B0191IS
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer is the story of Fred Waitzkin and his son, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he competes for the national championship. Drawn into the insular, international network of chess, they must also navigate the difficult waters of their own relationship. All the while, Waitzkin searches for the elusive Bobby Fischer, whose myth still dominates the chess world and profoundly affects Waitzkin's dreams for his son.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Catalog Code: CB0244RB
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Secret Notes
David Bronstein, one of the world's great players of the 20th century, drew a match for the world championship and was victorious in numerous international events. He was also one of the most original thinkers in the history of chess: rapidplay tournaments, clocks with the addition of a certain time after every move, his own version of random chess - these are just a few of the ideas that have sprung from his fertile imagination.
Secret Notes
Catalog Code: B0005OE
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Shady Side
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
A chronicle of America's most notorious chess master based on many of his own papers. Includes a detailed story of his life, his loves, his cons, and his many chess experiences in a 60+-year career. along with 570 of his games (some with full notes). Much US chess history and some excellent photos are a notable part of the book. NOTE: This book won the Chess Cafe 'Book of the Year' award for 2000.
Shady Side
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
Catalog Code: B0013CA
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SHOPWORN - American Grandmaster
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
In American Grandmaster, Benjamin takes the reader on a journey through chess adventures spanning more than thirty years. Tracing through his own career, from being a prodigy in the 'Fischer boom' era thorough to an experienced Grandmaster with many titles, Benjamin is in a unique position to highlight the major changes that have occurred both in US and international chess throughout the last four decades.
SHOPWORN - American Grandmaster
Four Decades of Chess Adventures
Catalog Code: SWB0228EM
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The Chess Artist
Genius, Obsession and the World's Oldest Game
Genius, Obsession and the World's Oldest Game
The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities, writer and chess enthusiast J. C. Hallman explores the obsessive hold chess exerts on its followers by examining the history and evolution of the game and the people who dedicate their lives to it.
The Chess Artist
Genius, Obsession and the World's Oldest Game
Catalog Code: B0048OB
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The Fire Attack - RUSSIAN EDITION
The Fire Attack" by Mikhail Tal and Iakov Damsky, brings out all the brightest and most beautiful of the great victories of the Soviet Grandmaster of Chess and World champion Mikhail Tal Nehemevicha. His aggressive, unpredictable, graceful, and in some cases even warlike games are always admired and will always be admired by millions of players around the world. He was a true master of the attack on the king. Tal showed that the need for a good attack, unexpected solutions, endless sacrifices, even if not always correct in terms of computer analysis.
The Fire Attack - RUSSIAN EDITION
Catalog Code: B0211IS
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The Game of Kings
A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses who make up America's Top High School Chess Team
A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses who make up America's Top High School Chess Team
In Game of Kings award-winning sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season, from tournaments at private clubs to cash games at Washington Square Park to the Supernationals in Nashville, where this eclectic bunch competes against private schoolers and suburbanites fro the national championship. Weinreb explores the peculiar genius of these chess prodigies who are alternately exalted and exasperated by the sixty-four squares that delineate their obsession.
The Game of Kings
A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses who make up America's Top High School Chess Team
Catalog Code: B0050OB
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The Great Chess Masters and Their Games
The Human Side of Chess
The Human Side of Chess
Is there any quality common in the world's greatest chess masters, any peculiarity which made them contestants upon that particular parti-coloured board and on no other? Is there, in other words, a chess-mind?
The Great Chess Masters and Their Games
The Human Side of Chess
Catalog Code: B0234IS
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The Immortal Games of Capablanca
Superbly annotated treasury includes 113 of the Cuban master's greatest games against Marshall, Lasker, Euwe, and many other formidable opponents.
The Immortal Games of Capablanca
Catalog Code: B0050DV
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The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
The Later Years
This greatly enlarged second edition chronicles the second half (1921-1961) of the Polish grandmaster's life. Dozens of archival photographs, photographs and approximately 40% more material finish off this splendid work, completing the journey begun in volume 1.
The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 2
The Later Years
Catalog Code: B0055RE
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The President's Crown of Thorns
Autobiography of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the World Chess Federation ("FIDE") from 1995 to the Present. This is an amazing book because it describes the break-up of the Soviet Union and provides an autobiography of how a man realizing the huge changes in the process of taking place in Russian society was able to become a millionaire.
The President's Crown of Thorns
Catalog Code: B0101IS
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The Queen of Katwe
A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
The Queen of Katwe is an intimate and heartrending portrait of human life on the poor fringes of the twenty-first century.
The Queen of Katwe
A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
Catalog Code: B0069OB
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The Soviet Chess School
The Soviet Chess School has biographies and lots of games and pictures of players such as Kasparov, Karpov and Spassky whereas these players are not mentioned in the 32-years earlier work The Soviet School of Chess.
The Soviet Chess School
Catalog Code: B0132IS
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The Soviet School of Chess
This book discusses the first Russian grandmasters and prominent masters, such luminaries as Mikhail Chigorin, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Alexander Tolush and many others. Also included is a section dedicated to the women players.
The Soviet School of Chess
Catalog Code: B0090IS
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The Stress of Chess
...and its Infinite Finesse
...and its Infinite Finesse
In this memoir Walter Browne recounts his formative years, how he befriended and played Bobby Fischer in New York City, how he travelled the world, made his name and lived his life. He annotates his best chess games from over four decades, great attacking games full of sacrifices and fireworks, in a clear style that is accessible for amateur players.
The Stress of Chess
...and its Infinite Finesse
Catalog Code: B0113NIC
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Tigran Petrosian - His Life and Games
Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969 and was one of the strongest players in the world throughout his lengthy career. Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980).
Tigran Petrosian - His Life and Games
Catalog Code: B0027IS
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Vishy Anand - World Chess Champion
Life and Games
Life and Games
This new expanded edition of the award-winning Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess (New Edition) features 30 extra games from the period of Anand's greatest successes.
Vishy Anand - World Chess Champion
Life and Games
Catalog Code: B0179GB
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William Steinitz - Chess Champion
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz had a rich and elevated career and life, which can now be known as well. From Steinitz's own writings and the fruits of extensive first-time-ever research by the author, a fascinating portrayal emerges of the life and genius of a man widely known as the 'Bohemian Caesar' quite apart from his chess dominance.
William Steinitz - Chess Champion
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
Catalog Code: B0004MF
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Wonderboy Magnus Carlsen
How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Grandmaster in the World
How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Grandmaster in the World
At the age of thirteen years, four months and twenty-six days, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the world. The scene of this stunning record: Dubai. The date: April 26, 2004. Predictably, the international press raved about the Norwegian prodigy.
Wonderboy Magnus Carlsen
How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Grandmaster in the World
Catalog Code: B0006NIC
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