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1) Check & mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
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English
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Explanations for the famous and less well-known combinations of Tarrasch, Botvinnik, Nimzovich, Steinitz, Rubinstein; the dazzling brilliancies of Morphy, Keres, and Alekhine; the deadly attacks of Marshall; the unfathomable plays of Lasker; and the matchless creations of Capablanca and many others. 356 diagrams.
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English
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In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history.
In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex-car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess prodigy and...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The author describes his adolescent years as a tournament chess player, discussing the temptations to cheat and explaining how the game almost drove him insane before he quit at the age of twenty-five, and examines his relationship with his father.
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Español
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* La edad no es ningún impedimento para aprender a jugar al ajedrez: un juego apasionante que ayuda a desarrollar, incluso en los más pequeños, lógica, estrategia, táctica e intuición. Sin olvidar, naturalmente, las horas de diversión que proporciona.
* A partir de las reglas básicas el manual desvela, mediante innumerables diagramas que explican paso a paso todas las posibles dificultades que pueden aparecer durante una partida, los secretos...
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English
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Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. 80 illustrations.
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English
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This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the first rank. The first authoritative, English translation from the Russian, this volume was, written by one of the leading competitors. Its perceptive coverage includes games by Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, and 11 others. Algebraic notation. 352 diagrams.
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English
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The ideas & plans behind ALL chess openings!
Volume 2 of an accessible primer and reference book about chess openings. Provides a solid foundation to build your opening repertoire on. Explains what you should be trying to achieve, with clear indications for further study.
* Comprehensive: covers all main variations likely to arise
* Easy-to-use: important moves and key positions are highlighted in colour
* Long-lasting: it doesn't outdate...
14) Computer chess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to...
15) Not an easy win
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Language
English
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Nothing has gone right for twelve-year-old year old Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
16) Schachnovelle
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Series
Fischer Taschenbücher volume 1522
Language
Deutsch
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Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle Neu editiert, in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung und mit Kurzbiographie des Autors im Anhang. Vollständig verlinkt und mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Auf einem Passagierdampfer, auf der Passage von New York nach Buenos Aires, kommt es zu einer außergewöhnlichen Konfrontation: Der amtierende Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic, ein derber, unsensibler Mensch, dessen Inselbegabung für Schach alleine und verloren in charakterlicher...
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English
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Georgia reporter Chase Walker makes discoveries about his troubled childhood when he connects with Snoot, an abused, mute eight-year-old boy with amazing artistic ability and a talent for chess who was abandoned when his mother kicked him out of her car seconds before she drove it in front of a train.
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English
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Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.
A member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Maria Florkowska is captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Auschwitz. Her family is sent to their deaths; she...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and the endurance of love.
NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK...
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and the endurance of love.
NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK...
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English
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In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills. Questions such as:
"Who has the better position?""Should I resolve the tension in the center?""How can I improve the placement of my pieces?"In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, the reader is invited to take a seat in the classroom of a renowned chess teacher, and learn how to answer such questions while experiencing...
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