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Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ex library copy.
Verlag: Coles Publishing Company, Ltd, Toronto, 1977
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxii+98 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published by David McKay as Chess for Amateurs. Excerpted from the ''Second'', ''Third'', ''Forth'' and ''Fifth Book of Chess'', plus ''1001 Brilliant Chess Sacrifices and Combinations'' all by Fred Reinfeld. Condition: Corners bumped, light edge wear else very good.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster, A Fireside Book, New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 0671215396ISBN 13: 9780671215392
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xii+237 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1956. Why You Lose at Chess is vintage Reinfeld. He pulls no punches, showing the reader why he or she loses chess games. This is quite a remarkable feat when you think about it, because he never saw any of the games the vast majority of his readers played. But Fred knew the thinking that lurks behind poor chess decisions, and he let us all know what is wrong or irrelevant or misguided about the types of moves he witnessed far too often. Beginning with a chapter on self-appraisal, he links a lack of understanding of your own personality with erroneous choices of moves and plans in a chess game. He goes on to delve into playing blindly (with no idea what you are actually doing) or by rote (memorization vs. understanding). A couple of technical mistakes he points out include a lack of understanding of the tremendous importance controlling the center makes as well as knowing what features in a position should be present in order for an attack to be likely to work. Among other observations, he gets on amateur players for being easily bored, impatient, lazy, and stubborn. And all of this comes with lucid examples from master play that back up his contentions. All in all, this is an outstanding treatment of a subject players generally do not pay enough attention to. It has the potential to open anyone's eyes to what playing strong chess can be like. Let Fred Reinfeld show you the way to better chess. Condition: Edge wear with some closed tears, corners bumped, rubbed and lightly creased else very good.
Verlag: Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1967
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 56-[5 ad] pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1934. The match began September 6, 1929 under the following conditions: Alekhine would get $6,000 dollars win or lose, with any surplus going to Bogoljubov. A winner would be declared if he scored 15½ points with 6 wins from a maximum of 30 games. Unlike the Capablanca-Alekhine 1927 match, which had been played in private, the Alekhine-Bogoljubov match would be played in public. The organizers insisted on this, in order to raise money from ticket sales. Only those cities that contributed to the purse would be allowed to host the match: Wiesbaden (games 1-8; 24-25), Heidelberg (games 9-11), Berlin (games 12-17), The Hague (games 18-19; 23), Rotterdam (game 20), and Amsterdam (games 21-22). Emanuel Lasker served as arbiter in the Berlin games. Alekhine won the 1st game, but Bogoljubov kept pace, evening the score 1-1 after a win in Game 4. The world champion won the next game, and Bogoljubov came right back again to win Game 6, tying the score at 2-2. Alekhine attributed this loss to an "enforced exchange of queens" on move 15 which produced a position that "could not be defended against by accurate play. The world champion now began to draw away with two consecutive victories. Alekhine regarded his win with the black pieces in Game 8 to be among his best. The match was now interrupted by a scheduled two week break so that Alekhine could attend the 6th FIDE congress in Venice. On resumption, Alekhine extended his lead to four games, but Bogoljubov clawed back to win games 13 and 14. This would be the challenger's last real resistance. Alekhine now won five of the next eight games, putting the match well out of reach. The final game proved a fitting example of the whole match, which featured exciting, but risky tactical chess throughout. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.
Verlag: Collier Books 1974 New York, 1974
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Soft cover. Good to very good issued in wrappers Reprint Wrappers Octavio xx, 265p [rappers creased, corners bumped, edge wear.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014063027ISBN 13: 9781014063021
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.72.
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Verlag: Hassell Street Press 9/10/2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015259847ISBN 13: 9781015259843
Anbieter: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
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Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. How to Play Top-notch Checkers 0.61. Book.
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Verlag: Dover Publications, Mineola, 1984
ISBN 10: 0486247570ISBN 13: 9780486247571
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. iv+92+[15 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Reprint of the first edition of 1936. Edgar Colle (1897-1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, in a strong field ahead of Esteban Canal; and won twice outright at Scarborough in 1927, and again in 1930, ahead of Maróczy and Rubinstein. Colle's playing career was hampered by ill health. He survived three difficult operations for a gastric ulcer and died after a fourth at the age of 34 in Ghent. Condition: Old sticker price and previous owner's stamp to title, edge wear, head corner slightly creased else a very good copy.
Verlag: Stein & Day, Scarborough House, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0812821874ISBN 13: 9780812821871
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
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1st Scarborough Books Edition. A fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 181 pages; Description: x, 181 p. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Chess--Collections of games. Great Moments in Chess. 1 Kg.
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Verlag: London : Oak Tree Press, 1964
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 124 pages : illustrations ; 26cm. Subjects: European coins -- Catalogues. Numismatics. 1 Kg.
Verlag: Pitman Publishing, New York, 1948
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. vi+154 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover with a pictorial knight in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 24-59) First edition. In this book 75 lively and exciting chess games, won by world-famous masters in 20 moves or less, are instructively annotated. These are the outstanding short games of the past 100 years, and in the discussions emphasis is placed on the modern methods now favored by topflight chess masters. All annotations call attention to the finesses in the play which might be overlooked. They point up the general principles that are being illustrated. In addition, the bad moves which caused loss of games are indicated. Condition: Moderated rubbing to extremities. Jacket corners, fold over edges and spine ends chipped with loss of 2" x 1/2" to head and front head edge else a very good copy in a better than good jacket.
Verlag: London : Oak Tree Press, 1964
Anbieter: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irland
Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 124 pages : illustrations ; 26cm. Subjects: European coins -- Catalogues. Numismatics. 1 Kg.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014477980ISBN 13: 9781014477989
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Arco Publishers, London, 1955
Anbieter: Gwyn Tudur Davies, Aberystwyth, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hbk, 306 p. illus. 23 cm. A clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Dust wrapper scuffed around edges, taped o/w good condition. q1223 / m13244.
Verlag: Black Knight Press, New York, 1933
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 101+[3] pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Fist edition. A superb collection of fifty of the greatest masters games ever played. Its painstaking research, analytical clarity and graceful exposition are not only much admired by average players but by famous ones as well. Typical of its distinguished acclaim are the statements of world-master Sammy Reshevsky who called it "one of the finest books on chess ever written. as readable as it is useful." Condition: Spine ends and corners rubbed through, previous owner's name to front end paper, old name tag to dedication page, spine dulled else good to very good.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014641136ISBN 13: 9781014641137
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Anbieter: S N Books World, Delhi, Indien
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LeatherBound. Zustand: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 120 Language: English Pages: 120.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 101437247XISBN 13: 9781014372475
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954, 1972(?), 1972
ISBN 10: 0671210416ISBN 13: 9780671210410
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. [1954 edition], 8th printing ; 243 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm ; LC: GV1451; Dewey: 794.1; LCCN: 58-9801 ; ISBN: 0671210416; 9780671210410 LCCN: 54-9790 ; OCLC: 2731999 ; pictorial black, orange, gold and white stiff paper wrappers ;"This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining." ; "Reuben Fine was an International Grandmaster and one of the world's greatest chess players ever. His books, including 'Basic Chess Endings' and 'The Middlegame in Chess,' are among the all-time classics of chess literature."; Formerly entitled "lessons from my games" ;"Horowitz was the chess editor of The New York Times and three times United States Open Chess Champion." ; crease on back cover, else G. Book.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Anbieter: S N Books World, Delhi, Indien
Buch Print-on-Demand
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 268 Language: English Pages: 268.
Verlag: New York Sterling Publishing Company (1959), 1959
Anbieter: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Square 8vo. (22 cm.) 90p. With Player-View pictorial illustrations by Werner Schmidt. Light green cloth with green letters on the spine and green chess pieces on the front cover. Fine/ Jack every so slightly rubbed.
Verlag: New York : Sterling Publishing Company, 1958., 1958
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 208 p. illus. 20 cm. ; LC: QC475; Dewey: 535 ; OCLC: 2595267 ; white cloth with black lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The sun's energy -- The wonderful world of visible light -- The ways we see -- The mysterious world of invisible radiation -- The world of radio, radar, television and ultrasonics -- Radiation and the atom -- Radioisotopes and atomic energy. ; G. Book.
Verlag: New York : Dover Publications, 1958, 1958
ISBN 10: 0486204634ISBN 13: 9780486204635
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised edition ; xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0486204634 ((pbk.)); 9780486204635 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 58-14339 ; LC: GV1445; Dewey: 794.1 ; OCLC: 45271009 ; black and white photogrpahic stiff paper wrappers; "The last revised edition of the most famous general study of chess ever written. Prepared by an early twentieth-century master, it was designed to teach the beginner and the intermediate player just about everything he needed to know about openings, middle game, and end game. It has never been superseded as the most practical and easily followed book of its sort. It is unusual in presenting both ideas and actual moves (taken from master play) in the most easily assimilated form. Revised and brought up to date by Fred Reinfeld and Sidney Bernstein, this book explains and makes easy for you more than 90 different openings, ranging from the classical Ruy Lopez up to the work of Alekhine, Reti, Nimzovich, and others. Combinations are analyzed and presented so clearly (yet without sacrificing depth) that you will soon find yourself seeing moves ahead more clearly than you did before. You will learn how to plan your game with a purpose, how to attack, sacrifice, defend, exchange, and govern your general strategy. Endings are also thoroughly covered. All in all, there is not an aspect of practical chess that is not treated, and there is hardly a player living below the rank of grandmaster who could not profit form Mason's work. If you follow Mason's exposition thoroughly, you will probably obtain as much knowledge of chess as you could short of making chess a full-time study for years. Bound in with Mason's Art of Chess is an entirely new booklet by Fred Reinfeld, How Do You Play Chess? In this booklet, Mr. Reinfeld uses lively questions and answers to tell novices of the basic fundamentals of the game." ' ; Fred Reinfeld (1910-1964) was for many years among the strongest chess players in the country. Even now as an author, he stands alone, one of the most successful and prolific chess writer of all time, with over one hundred books to his credit. ;slight wear, crease on front cover corner ; marks in the bibliography, else VG. Book.
Verlag: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951, 1972(?), 1972
ISBN 10: 0671211382ISBN 13: 9780671211387
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. [1951 edition, 3rd printing] ; xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm ; ISBN: 0671211382; 9780671211387 ; LC: GV1445; Dewey: 794.1/2 ; red, blue, black and white pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Playing with the white pieces: Stonewall pattern. What opening shall I play? ; Stonewall attack I: demolition sacrifice at KR7 ; Stonewall attack II: normal position for white ; Stonewall attack III: swooping down on the open king bishop file ; Queen's gambit declined: black evades the Stonewall attack -- Playing with the black pieces against 1P-K4. What defense shall I play against 1P-K4.? ; Dragon variation I: white cannot afford indifferent play ; Dragon variation II: normal position for black ; Dragon variation III: black concludes with a stunning queen sacrifice ; Dragon variation IV: vigorous counterattack ; Dragon variation V: white's queen-side castling proves a fiasco ; Dragon variation VI: relentless positional pressure by black -- Playing with the black pieces against 1P-Q4. What defense shall I play against 1P-Q4.? ; Lasker's defense I: simplification leads to freedom ; Lasker's defense II: normal position for black ; Lasker's defense III: a fatal dilemma for white ; Lasker's defense IV: battleground of conflicting theories ; Lasker's defense V: white's last attempt at refutation -- How to exploit inferior play by your opponent. What if my opponent doesn't follow the book? ; The importance of controlling the center ; How superior mobility leads to a stormy breakthrough ; How line-opening leads to attacking possibilities ; How superior mobility leads to line-opening. ; "It is really no great secret that the right move in each position is the sure path to victory. To find the right move invariably, however, is beyond the power of ordinary mortals. What is within his grasp, is the right way to think ahead. Not far ahead. Accurate appraisal is more important than deep calculation. The purpose of this book is to teach the right way to think ahead." -from introduction ; VG. Book.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013854616ISBN 13: 9781013854613
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: New York : D. McKay Co., 1947, 1973, 1973
ISBN 10: 0679140255ISBN 13: 9780679140252
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Revised edition ; xxvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0679140255 ((pbk.)); 9780679140252 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 47-4837 ; LC: GV1445; Dewey: 794.1 ; OCLC: 6996094 ; "Translator's preface" signed: Philip Hereford. ; illustrated by 109 games from my contests with many illustrative articles and introductory talks and 132 diagrams, a text-book on practical chess ; red, black and white pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "A collection of illustrative games supplements board diagrams and descriptions of position play and elements of chess strategy" ; "Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master[2] and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns. Born in part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant. In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year. He won his first international tournament at Munich 1906.[3] Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at Saint Petersburg 1913/14 (the eighth All-Russian Masters' Tournament). During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone. He escaped being drafted into one of the armies by feigning madness, insisting that a fly was on his head. He then escaped to Berlin, and gave his first name as Arnold, possibly to avoid anti-Semitic persecution. Nimzowitsch eventually moved to Copenhagen in 1922,[5] which coincided with his rise to the world chess elite, where he lived for the rest of his life in one small rented room.[6] In Copenhagen, he twice won the Nordic Chess Championship, in 1924 and 1934. He obtained Danish citizenship and lived in Denmark until his death in 1935." ; FINE. Book.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013605071ISBN 13: 9781013605079
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013989813ISBN 13: 9781013989810
Anbieter: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, USA
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: New York : Barnes & Noble, 1958, 1957, 1973, 1973
ISBN 10: 0389002291ISBN 13: 9780389002291
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. [1973 edition, 6th printing];182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. ; LC: GV1450; Dewey: 794.1 ; OCLC: 1743783 ; ISBN: 0389002291 ; LCCN: 58-8912 ; orange, red, black and white pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "Fred Reinfeld (1910-1964) was for many years among the strongest chess players in the country. Even now as an author, he stands alone, the most successful and prolific chess writer of all time, with over one hundred books to his credit." ; "Analyses and explains the chess openings and the basic variations the average chess plater meets in day-to-day play. it shows the patterns essential to an understanding of the openings and delves into t he thinking behind these moves." ; Contents: Chess notation -- Center game -- Danish gambit -- Bishop's opening -- Vienna game -- King's gambit -- King's gambit declined -- Flakbeer counter gambit -- Greco counter gambit -- Philidor's defense -- Petroff's defense -- Scotch game -- Ponziani opening -- Hungarian opening -- Giuoco piano -- Evans gambit -- Two knight's defense -- Four knight's game (Including Three knight's game) -- Ruy Lopez -- French defense -- Sicilian defense -- Caro-Kann defense -- Alekhine's defense -- Center counter defense -- Nimzovich defense -- Yugoslav defense -- Queen's gambit -- Queen's gambit declined -- Albin counter gambit -- Queen's gambit accepted -- Miscellaneous double queen pawn openings -- Nimzoindian defence -- Queen's Indian defense -- King's Indian defense -- Gruenfeld defense -- Blumenfeld counter gambit -- Budapest defense -- Benoni counter gambit -- Dutch defense -- Reti opening -- Catalan system -- English opening -- Bird's opening ; FINE. Book.
Verlag: David McKay, 1947,1933, 1972, 1972
ISBN 10: 0679140050ISBN 13: 9780679140054
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. [1946 edition], 3rd printing ; xii, 179 pages illustrations 20 cm.; LC: GV1451; Dewey: 794.1; ISBN: 0679140050; 9780679140054; National Library: 009596113 LCCN: 46-3209 ; OCLC: 1355003 ; pictorial black, purple and white stiff paper wrappers ;"Original publication . 1933"--Preface. ; "A superb collection of fifty of the greatest master games ever played. Its painstaking research, analytical clarity and graceful exposition are not only much admired by average players but by famous ones as well. Typical of its distinguished acclaim are the statements of world-master Sammy Reshevsky who called it 'one of the finest books on chess ever written, as readable as it is useful.' and of grandmaster Reuben Fine who said, 'I recommend Chess Strategies and Tactics to every player who is earnestly desirous of improving his game.'"; "Chernev was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)[1] and emigrated to the United States in 1920. Chernev was a national master strength player, and was obsessed with chess. He wrote that he "probably read more about chess, and played more games than any man in history."--Wikipedia ; "Chernev's output - clear, humorous and easy-going - gave the impression of effortlessness, but much industry lay behind it all."--Edward Winter ; FINE. Book.