Verlag: Chess Digest, Dallas, 1974
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 42 pages with diagrams. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This opening system pamphlet (using the English Opening) has practical aim of acquainting a player with the theoretical equipment he may need to Play 1P-QB4 in serious chess. The accent is placed on learning a simple developing plan to counter each different formation of an opponent's (Black) pieces. The many transpositional - especially rich in the English Opening - are vital to the serious player. Condition: Soiled, edge wear, corners bumped else about very good.
Verlag: Stein and Day A Scarbrough Book, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0812823311 ISBN 13: 9780812823318
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 227+[1 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Chess is supposed to be fun. Here then is a king's treasure of insiders' chess stories, unusual problems and annotated games, dedicated to that proposition. The reader will find tales of famous grandmasters who were two-fisted drinkers, of a threatened queen leading to a fight and a broken rib, of police interrogations of a world chess champion because he was receiving post cards from Russia carrying code like notations. Condition. Light edge wear with bumped, rubbed and creased corners else very good.
Verlag: David McKay Company, Inc, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0812922913 ISBN 13: 9780812922912
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 359 pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Every player has heard the saying, "Chess is 99 percent tactics." It isn't. It's 99 percent calculation. But until now there has never been a book devoted entirely to this most mysterious and essential chess technique. This book examines both the technical and practical aspects of how to think ahead -- the selection of candidate moves, the evaluation of end positions, finding the proper move order, and the like. Special attention is paid to the broad range of calculating mistakes, such as overlooked zwischenzugs and "quiet moves," visualization blunders, and "believing" your opponent. Condition: Light edge wear else very good to fine.
Verlag: Chess Digest, Dallas, 1973
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 49 pages with diagrams. Octavo ( 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers. First edition. Condition: Some sunning to wrappers, edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed.
Verlag: Chess Digest, Dallas, 1993
ISBN 10: 0875682359 ISBN 13: 9780875682358
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 121 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. GM Soltis: "If white gets to attack in the Sicilian Defense anyway, why should he offer a pawn or two for the privilege? The answer is that black gets to counterplay in the Sicilian and his counterplay is usually as good as white's. That, in fact, is what makes the Sicilian popular. There are plenty of familiar Sicilian gambits(like the Smith Morra and Wing, which this book doesn't even cover). But in the last few years, a number of new ideas arising out of positional variations, have been discovered and found to pack a wallop for white". Here are six new white gambits against the Sicilian that the reader will have to attempt to destroy black! Condition: Light edge wear else near fine.
Verlag: David McKay Company, Inc, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0812919068 ISBN 13: 9780812919066
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii+305 pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The material in this book is compiled from Soltis' "Chess to Enjoy" column in Chess Life. The chapters are a lively mixture of anecdote and analysis, and should entertain anyone with any level of interest in chess. Soltis knows his chess history, and tells some neat stories, such as the history of Capablanca's Composition. This is a problem composed by Capablanca in 1908, in which flaws were found after his death. The problem itself is fascinating, but Soltis makes a good story of the ups and downs of the subsequent analysis, and points out that chess fame still awaits anyone who can save the composition. Soltis is also good with anecdote and wit; my favourite section perhaps being the very tongue-in-cheek instructions on how to annotate a master game, e.g. suggesting safe adjectives: "positions are 'difficult,' 'winning,' 'critical,' 'hopeless,' or--the safest dodge of all--'shown in the diagram.'" Condition: Some creasing to front wrapper, corners bumped and rubbed, some soiling else about very good.
Verlag: Random House Puzzles & Games, 2004
ISBN 10: 0812935810 ISBN 13: 9780812935813
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6.
Verlag: Stein and Day, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0812823311 ISBN 13: 9780812823318
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 227 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards with faux gilt signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Even if Bobby Fischer did fall asleep in his game with Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier, chess is no sedate sport. Here are stories of famous grandmasters who were two-fisted drinkers, of a threatened queen leading to a fist-fight and a broken rib, and a chubby young Czech champion falling out of his chair. Condition: back head edge bumped and lightly chipped. Jacket spine head chipped else very good in like jacket.
Verlag: Three Rivers Press (CA), 1986
ISBN 10: 0679144757 ISBN 13: 9780679144755
Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Light staining to some pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.8.
Verlag: Stein and Day, NY, 1978
ISBN 10: 0812823311 ISBN 13: 9780812823318
Anbieter: Allen F. Wright, Wesley Chapel, FL, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine +. First Edition. "A king's treasury of chess stories and unusual games and problems of budding masters, sideline kibitzers, and rainy-Sunday-afternoon beginners." - sub-title. Cute dedication: "To Marcy, without whom this book would have been finished six months ago." Much text and a nice selection of lightly annotated games. Descriptive chess notation. Diagrams. Index. of Players. 227 pages. When I bought the book years ago, it had a mylar book jacket cover installed. The book has neither wear nor defects. The lettering is as bright as the day the book was published. No owners' marks. The book will be sent to you well packed in a box.
Verlag: McFarland & Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0786406763 ISBN 13: 9780786406760
Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards. Foxing along the text block. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.55.
Verlag: McFarland Publishing, Jefferson, NC, 2000
ISBN 10: 0786406763 ISBN 13: 9780786406760
Anbieter: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii+450 pages with diagrams, plates, tables and indexes. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the days of the revolution to the devastation of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet-dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents. Condition: Near fine.
Verlag: David McKay Company, Inc. (New York), 1976
ISBN 10: 0679130500 ISBN 13: 9780679130505
Anbieter: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1976 First Edition published by David McKay Company, Inc. (New York). Original dust jacket included. DJ has some ever so slight shelf wear. Book itself is pristine and like new. (BR) Box 69.