Half a Century of Chess
Title | Half a Century of Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Botvirnnik |
Publisher | Everyman Chess Classics |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-04-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781781943335 |
In this collection of his best games, former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik demonstrates the deep strategic style that took him to the title. Written by one of the greatest players of all time Contains 90 annotated games from Botvinnik's career Includes victories over Capablanca, Alekhine, Smyslov, Tal and Petrosian Incorporates background material on key personalities and events
One Hundred Selected Games
Title | One Hundred Selected Games PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Botvinnik |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1960-01-01 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780486206202 |
World champion who dominated chess in the 1940s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams.
Half a Century of Chess
Title | Half a Century of Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Михаил Моисеевич Ботвинник |
Publisher | Pergamon Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Games |
ISBN | 9780080297392 |
The Kids' Book of Chess
Title | The Kids' Book of Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Kidder |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780894807671 |
Traces the history of chess, describes the pieces and how they move, and discusses the strategy of the game.
Evil-Doer
Title | Evil-Doer PDF eBook |
Author | Genna Sosonko |
Publisher | Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing House |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-05-17 |
Genre | Chess |
ISBN | 9785950043383 |
Viktor Korchnoi was one of the leading grandmasters of the 20th century, coming within one game of winning the world championship in 1978. His battles with Karpov for the world crown were among the most important chess matches ever played. A man with a unique - and in many ways tragic - life and career, Korchnoi's defection to the West in 1976 was a major event in Cold War politics. Grandmaster Genna Sosonko was Korchnoi's coach and second during tournaments and candidates matches in 1970-71 and then a close friend of Korchnoi for decades. Indeed, Sosonko's emigration to the West in 1972, which is described in detail in this memoir, had a key impact on Korchnoi's decision to defect four years later. They would meet up at tournaments and at home and discuss chess, politics, and just about everything else. Their conversations constitute an important part of this book, in which Sosonko tackles difficult questions about Korchnoi's personality and places much of his often challenging behavior into its historical context. This book, like Sosonko's previous masterpiece The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein, contains no games but focuses on Korchnoi's life, from his early childhood to his final years. Further, it includes many previously unpublished photos from the private collections of Sosonko and the Korchnoi family.
Chess studies: comprising one thousand games, actually played during the last half century
Title | Chess studies: comprising one thousand games, actually played during the last half century PDF eBook |
Author | George Walker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Music and Chess
Title | Music and Chess PDF eBook |
Author | Achilleas Zographos |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017-11-03 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 1941270735 |
A Most Fascinating Journey! It has long been recognized that there are only three major areas of human endeavor which produce prodigies: music, chess and mathematics. This does not occur by happenstance. There are links on many levels. Now, for the first time, Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa examines the yet unexplored relation of chess to music. Mathematics is a main common denominator, a fact that is highlighted accordingly. The thesis of this extraordinarily researched book is that chess is art in itself. It can create art and is strongly related to mathematics and music. As becomes clear, this relationship has already been introduced by some legendary players such as Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Kramnik . Great artists such as John Cage, Marcel Duchamp and Arnold Schönberg, to name but a few, have also been fascinated by the very same idea. Surprisingly, this has not been explored in detail so far – only some sporadic articles exist, by authors specializing in either music or chess. There are chapters that address issues which are specialized in chess and music, while others cover related issues of general, social and artistic nature. Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa can be appreciated by readers who have a good, general, though non-specific background, in both fields. That is, no technical knowledge of music is required, with the only prerequisite to fully appreciate the text being the understanding of standard chess rules. The text could be equally enlightening to students of music or mathematics, as an added intellectual insight into these two disciplines. The text is supplemented by many chess diagrams, charts, and over 50 full-color images. So, turn on the music, set up chessboard, get out the calculator and let the author take you on a most fascinating journey that is Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa.