The Fireside Book of Chess - Softcover

Chernev, Irving; Reinfeld, Fred; Sloan, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4871875709 ISBN 13: 9784871875707

Verlag: Ishi Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Chernev Irving Reinfeld Fred

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Reseña del editor:

The Fireside Book of Chess is the World's Greatest Collection of stories, cartoons and amuning anecdotes about the game of chess. It also has curious and interesting chess games such as the game where the Champion of France lost in four moves, which is the quickest loss in chess history by a master. A selection of games converted into Algebraic Notation is in the back pages of this book. This is not a how-to manual for beginners, nor is it a strategy and tactics book for the more advanced player. This is a collections of memories, anecdotes, puzzles, lists and other trivia (and not so trivial) bits about chess. This is of interest to those who have a deep abiding passion for chess, as well as for those who only dabble in it occasionally. Both editors have written other books on chess; both Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld have written some of the better books on learning chess separately, and together they also collaborated on a book showing strategy and skills development toward winning at chess. This book contains stories and articles, collected from various publications such as the New Yorker and other newspapers and magazines. Included are also comics from the New Yorker, the Saturday Review of Literature, the New York Herald and other sources. Here are fake histories of the game, tongue-in-cheek stories, poignant memories and more.

Biografía del autor:

Irving Chernev was born on January 29, 1900 in Pryluky in the Ukraine. He emigrated to the United States in 1920. He wrote some of the most successful and widely read chess books ever written. Contrary to popular belief and to the publicity blurbs on the chess books he wrote, Chernev was not an especially strong player. However, he was an entertaining writer. His books are not read for the deep analysis but rather for the curious facts and amusing stories which have become part of chess lore that every chess player in the world now knows, even those who have not read his books. He wrote that he "probably read more about chess, and played more games than any man in history." Chernev's love for the game is obvious to any reader of his books. He wrote 20 chess books, among them: Chessboard Magic!; The Bright Side of Chess; The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played; 1000 Best Short Games of Chess; Practical Chess Endings; Combinations: The Heart of Chess; and Capablanca's Best Chess Endings. In 1945, he and Kenneth Harkness wrote An Invitation to Chess. Perhaps his most famous book is Logical Chess: Move by Move. He died in San Francisco, California on September 29, 1981. Fred Reinfeld was born on January 27, 1910. Although Fred Reinfeld is now remembered as a writer about chess and other subjects, he was also a strong player. In the 1950 USCF Rating List he was rated number 6 in the United States with a rating of 2593. He defeated Reshevsky twice and Fine once in tournament games and drew World Champion Alekhine in the grandmaster tournament in Pasadena 1932, the strongest tournament ever played in the Western United States. Reinfeld wrote more than one hundred chess books. In his day, almost all young chess players started off on his books. Nowadays, his books are mostly out of print because they were written in descriptive notation, as this one was. He died on May 29, 1964.

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• Verlag: Ishi Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 4871875709
• ISBN 13: 9784871875707
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422