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1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmateby Fred ReinfeldISBN 0879801107 (0-87980-110-7)
Softcover, Wilshire Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate'Book summary:1001 ways to checkmate is part of a chess lovers library to improve your skills. [via]
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The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Masteryby Jeremy SilmanISBN 1890085022 (1-890085-02-2)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery'Book summary:This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board with a wealth of new-found knowledge and the promise of a significant gain in strength. Most amateurs possess erroneous thinking processes that remain with them throughout their chess lives. These flaws in their mental armour result in stinging defeats and painful reversals. Books can be bought and studied, lessons can be taken -- but in the end, these elusive problems always prove to be extremely difficult to eradicate. Seeking a solution to this dilemma, the author wrote down the thoughts of his students while they played actual games, analysed them, and catalogued the most common misconceptions that arose. This second edition greatly expands on the information contained in the popular first edition. [via]
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The Art of Attack in Chessby V. VukovicISBN 1857444000 (1-85744-400-0)
Softcover, Everyman Chess
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Attack in Chess'Book summary:One of the finest chess books ever written Vukovic expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this masterpiece will add new power and brilliance to any player's game. [via]
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The Art of the Middle Gameby H Golombek, Paul Keres, Alexander KotovISBN 0486261549 (0-486-26154-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Middle Game'Book summary:Superb guide to neglected area of chess. Two formidable grandmasters cover attacking the king, defense, importance of pawn structure, analysis, much more. Authoritative introduction by Harry Golombek. Belongs in the library of every serious chess enthusiast. Indexes of players and middle-game themes.[via]More editions of The Art of the Middle Game:
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Basic Chess Endingsby Reuben Fine, Pat BenkoISBN 0812934938 (0-8129-3493-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basic Chess Endings'Book summary:Basic Chess Endings, written by International Grandmaster Reuben Fine, is the most authoritative reference on the endgame. Serious students of the game find the work unmatched in its depth and range. Now, Grandmaster Pal Benko has revised this classic with the latest innovations in the endgame and adapted the book to algebraic notation. The result is what chess aficionados have been eagerly waiting for--a thoroughly modern bible on basic chess endings.
A handy guide for the practical player, Basic Chess Endings focuses on the aspects of the ending that occur most frequently in the course of play. With clear language, it reinforces knowledge of the standard position and tried-and-tested rules. Hundreds of diagrams make examples easy to follow. An indispensable reference for every chess player. [via] -
Birth Of The Chess Queenby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060090650 (0-06-009065-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Of The Chess Queen'Book summary:Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.
How and why did this transformation take place? Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts, with their intrigues and internal struggles for power. Further, she shows the connection between the chess queen, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the cult of Romantic Love, all of which influenced European society for centuries to come.
Illustrated with beautiful art throughout, this book takes a fresh look at the politics and culture of medieval Europe, the institution of queenship, and the reflections of royal power in the figure of the chess queen.
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Bobby Fischer Goes To War: How The Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of all Timeby David Edmonds, John EidinowISBN 0060510250 (0-06-051025-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobby Fischer Goes To War: How The Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of all Time'Book summary:In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown, played against the backdrop of superpower politics, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film. Thirty years later, David Edmonds and John Eidinow have set out to reexamine the story we recollect as the quintessential cold war clash between a lone American star and the Soviet chess machine. A mesmerizing narrative of brilliance and triumph, hubris and despair, Bobby Fischer Goes to War is a biting deconstruction of the Bobby Fischer myth, a nuanced study on the art of brinkmanship, and a revelatory cold war tragicomedy.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. [via]More editions of Bobby Fischer Goes To War: How The Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of all Time:
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Timeby David Edmonds, John EidinowISBN 0060510242 (0-06-051024-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time'Book summary:Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer. A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was uniquely equipped to take on the Soviets. His every waking hour was devoted to the game and he had steamrollered all opposition to reach the championship. When he became increasingly volatile, Henry Kissinger telephoned Fischer and urged him on to fight for his country. Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions. As the authors reveal, when Spassky began to lose, the KGB decided to help him to fight back. [via]
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Hardcover, Faber and Faber - Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time: ISBN 0060510242 (0-06-051024-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chessby Bobby FischerISBN 0553263153 (0-553-26315-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess'Book summary:This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a question. If you give the right answer, it goes on to the next question. If you give the wrong answer, it tells you why the answer is wrong and tells you to go back and try again. This is called "programmed learning". The real authors were experts and authorities in the field of programmed learning. Bobby Fischer lent his name to the project. Stuart Margulies is a chess master and also a recognized authority on programmed learning. He is a widely published author of more than 40 books, all in the field of programmed learning, especially in learning how to read. For example, one of his books is "Critical reading for proficiency 1 : introductory level". Donn Mosenfelder is not a known or recognized chess player, but he was the owner of the company that developed and designed this book. He has written more than 25 books, almost all on basic reading, writing and math. [via]
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ChessISBN 0721406106 (0-7214-0610-6)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd
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Chessby Rebecca Treays, Norman Young, Ian Winter, Howard Allman, Heather Blackham, Jane Munroe, Jane Munroe PhotographyISBN 0746022824 (0-7460-2282-4)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess'Book summary:This is a no-nonsense but entertaining guide for players of all ages on how to play & win the game of ch ess. Clear instructions explain the different moves of each piece, the rules of the game and how to master its intricaci es. ' [via]
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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, And The World's Oldest Gameby J. C. HallmanISBN 031233396X (0-312-33396-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, And The World's Oldest Game'Book summary: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 the most recent president of FIDE, the world's controlling chess body. Despite credible allegations of his involvement in drug running, embezzlement, and murder, the impoverished Kalmykian people have rallied around their leader's obsession---chess is played on Kalmykian prime-time television and is compulsory in Kalmykian schools. In addition, Kalmyk women have been known to alter their traditional costumes of pillbox hats and satin gowns to include chessboard-patterned sashes.[via]
The Chess Artist is both an intellectual journey and first-rate travel writing dedicated to the love of chess and all of its related oddities, writer and chess enthusiast J. C. Hallman explores the obsessive hold chess exerts on its followers by examining the history and evolution of the game and the people who dedicate their lives to it. Together with his friend Glenn Umstead, an African-American chessmaster who is arguably as chess obsessed as Ilyumzhinov, Hallman tours New York City's legendary chess district, crashes a Princeton Math Department game party, challenges a convicted murderer to a chess match in prison, and travels to Kalmykia, where they are confronted with members of the Russian intelligence service, beautiful translators who may be spies, seven-year-old chess prodigies, and the sad blight of a land struggling toward capitalism.
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.More editions of The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, And The World's Oldest Game:
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Chess for Dummiesby James EadeISBN 0764584049 (0-7645-8404-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess for Dummies'Book summary:It was inevitable, thank goodness, that the Dummies series would give us an introductory chess book. The light touch is perfect to offset the sober aura of mystery that surrounds the game in many people's minds. And the extras that reach beyond the well-written move explanations, strategies, and pattern-recognition make the book a real winner. It won't take much playing for readers to appreciate the section on chess etiquette, for example, or the one on uncommon moves, subtitled, "The Ones That Start the Fights." Informative tips and amusing bits of trivia add to the fun. [via]
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Chess Fundamentalsby Jose R. CapablancaISBN 0679140042 (0-679-14004-2)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Fundamentals'Book summary:J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters. Capablanca explains:
·How to obtain and nurture a passed pawn
·How to get and keep the initiative
·Cardinal rules for rook and pawn endings
·How to attack using knight as the main force
·How to cut off enemy pieces
Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess literature. [via]More editions of Chess Fundamentals:
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Chess Fundamentals: Completely Revised and Updated for the 21st Centuryby CapablancaISBN 1857440730 (1-85744-073-0)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Fundamentals: Completely Revised and Updated for the 21st Century'Book summary:J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters. Capablanca explains:
·How to obtain and nurture a passed pawn
·How to get and keep the initiative
·Cardinal rules for rook and pawn endings
·How to attack using knight as the main force
·How to cut off enemy pieces
Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess literature. [via]More editions of Chess Fundamentals: Completely Revised and Updated for the 21st Century:
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Chess Openings: Traps and Zapsby Bruce PandolfiniISBN 0671656902 (0-671-65690-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps'Book summary:Fireside Chess Library
In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Of the three traditional phases of chess play -- the opening, the middle-game and the endgame -- the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player.
In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of 202 short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Each example includes:
* the name of the overriding tactic
* the name of the opening
* a scenario that sets up the tactic to be learned
* an interpretation that explains why the loser went wrong, how he could have avoided the trap, and what he should have done instead
* a review of important principles and useful guidelines to reinforce each lesson.
Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps is a powerful, pragmatic entry into a heretofore remote area of chess theory that will have a profound influence on every player's game. [via]
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Chess Praxisby Aaron NiemzowitschISBN 1843821060 (1-84382-106-0)
Softcover, Hardinge Simpole Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Praxis'Book summary:In Chess Praxis Nimzowitsch elaborates on the strategies first adumbrated in My System with a series of deeply annotated games, demonstrating how his principles operated in practice. This was very much a manifesto for the Hypermodern School of Chess which also numbered Hardinge Simpole authors Richard Reti and S.G. Tartakower amongst its ranks. [via]
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Chess Praxisby Aron NimzovichISBN 0486202968 (0-486-20296-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Praxis'Book summary:"Chess Praxis" is the fullest exposition of Nimzovich's new analysis and theories, and it is beyond question one of the dozen most important books ever written about chess. The development of the author's ideas is both rich and extremely clear. Each possible maneuver situation is illustrated by at least two games, showing Nimzovich's surprising resources against other chess masters. 135 diagrams. 1 photo. [via]
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Chess Praxis: Twenty First Century Editionby Aron Nimzowitsch, Ken Artz, J. Du MontISBN 1880673916 (1-880673-91-6)
Softcover, Hays Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Praxis: Twenty First Century Edition'Book summary:Here now is a full exposition of Nimzowitsch's new analysis and theories that is remarkably profound and useful. [via]
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Chess Storyby Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg, Peter GayISBN 1590171691 (1-59017-169-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Story'Book summary:Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.
This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection. [via]More editions of Chess Story:
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Chess Traps : Pitfalls and Swindlesby Israel A. Horowitz, Fred ReinfeldISBN 0671210416 (0-671-21041-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chess Traps : Pitfalls and Swindles'Book summary: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. [via]
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The Complete Chess Playerby Fred ReinfeldISBN 0671768956 (0-671-76895-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Defense: A Novelby Michael Scammell, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokvovISBN 0679727221 (0-679-72722-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Defense: A Novel'Book summary:Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault. [via]
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The Eightby Katherine NevilleISBN 0345366239 (0-345-36623-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eight'Book summary:Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in 1972 ... and 1790. In the 20th century, Catherine Velis is a computer expert with a flair for music, painting, and chess who, on her way to Algeria at the behest of the accounting firm where she is employed, is invited to take a mysterious moonlighting assignment: recover the pieces of an old chess set missing for centuries.
In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination. She eventually comes into contact with the major historical figures of the day, from Robespierre to Napoleon, each of whom has an agenda.
The Eight is a non-stop ride that recalls the swashbuckling adventures of Indiana Jones as well as the historical puzzles of Umberto Eco which, since its first publication in 1988, has gone on to acquire a substantial cult following. [via]
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El ochoby Katherine Neville, Susana ConstanteISBN 8440616368 (84-406-1636-8)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El ocho'Book summary:Before computer expert Cat Velis can leave for her new job in Algeria, a mysterious fortune-teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for the pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years. Created in the south of France in 1790, the chess set is rumored to contain the secrets behind alchemy, freemasonry, and cosmic forces. But long ago two convent girls hid the valuable chess pieces all over the world because the game played with all of the pieces is dangerously powerful.[via]More editions of El ocho:
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156029588 (0-15-602958-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
How to Reassess Your Chessby Jeremy SilmanISBN 093865053X (0-938650-53-X)
Hardcover, Thinkers Press
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How to Reassess Your Chess: A Complete Course to Chess Masteryby Jeremy SilmanISBN 0945806108 (0-945806-10-8)
Softcover, Summit Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Reassess Your Chess: A Complete Course to Chess Mastery'Book summary:How to Reassess Your Chess: A Complete Course to Chess Mastery, 3rd Expanded Edition Jeremy Silman (Author) Paperback Publisher: Summit Publishing; 3rd Expanded edition (November 1993) Language: English ISBN-10: 0945806108 [via]
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How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Courseby Jeremy SilmanISBN 1890085006 (1-890085-00-6)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course'Book summary:How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game. In clear, direct language, Silman shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts and ultimately find the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation. By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical and at times even obvious. How the Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book. [via]
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The Ideas Behind the Chess Openingsby Reuben FineISBN 0812917561 (0-8129-1756-1)
Softcover, Times Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings'Book summary:In the opening, each player tries to control the center, set up a flexible pawn structure, develop the pieces rapidly and harmoniously, sometimes even go for direct attack. But there are so many complicated variations -- how can you memorize them all?
You can't -- and you don't have to! If you understand the basic goals of the opening you're playing, you will know which moves fit logically into its overall scheme. This classic, best-selling volume, now completely reset in modern algebraic notation, explains everything you need to know to play the opening sensibly and successfully.
Reuben Fine, an International Grandmaster, is one of the world's top players and a leading theoretician of chess. He is the author of over half a dozen books, including the definitive Basic Chess Endings. [via]More editions of The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings:
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess & Its Consequencesby David ShenkISBN 0385510101 (0-385-51010-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immortal Game: A History of Chess & Its Consequences'Book summary:Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool?
Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devils game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy.
In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in twentieth-century art, to its twenty-first-century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. [via]More editions of The Immortal Game: A History of Chess & Its Consequences:
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Judgment and Planning in Chessby Max EuweISBN 0679143254 (0-679-14325-4)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judgment and Planning in Chess'Book summary:Judgment And Planning In Chess focuses on that crucial point in the chess game -- eight or so moves into the game -- where the opening development breaks off and the middle game begins. This is precisely the part of the game that falls between opening books and middle-game books.
Dr. Euwe studies a number of orthodox openings and positions from the point where the opening stage has come to an end. He describes the characteristics of the position reached, shows why one or the other side stands better, and gives a practical demonstration of the means by which the game can be brought to its logical conclusion.
"Written with all the expository power for which the ex-champion is famous" (Times Literary Supplement), this well-known book is regarded as one of the standard manuals for developing players. [via]More editions of Judgment and Planning in Chess:
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LA Tabla De Flandesby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8420480797 (84-204-8079-7)
Hardcover, Alfaguara
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Tabla De Flandes'Book summary:A finales del siglo XV un viejo maestro flamenco introduce en uno de sus cuadros, en forma de partida de ajedrez, la clave de un secreto que pudo cambiar la historia de Europa. Cinco siglos después, una joven restauradora de arte, un anticuario homosexual y un excéntrico jugador de ajedrez unen sus fuerzas para tratar de resolver el enigma. La investigación les conducirá a través e una apasionante pesquisa en la que los movimientos del juego irán abriendo las puertas de un misterio que acabara por envolver a todos sus protagonistas. La tabla de Flandes es un apasionante juego de trampas e inversiones - pintura, música, literatura, historia, lógica matemática - que Arturo Perez-Reverte encaja con diabólica destreza. --- from book's back cover [via]
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LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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Lasker's Manual of Chessby E. LaskerISBN 0486206408 (0-486-20640-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lasker's Manual of Chess'Book summary:This manual is a guide to the game of chess, which takes the reader from the basic elements of the game right through to complex concepts of strategy and tactics. All the important features are covered in detail and sections on opening theory, combinations and positional play, together with a final chapter of instructive model games. The author has been a World Chess Champion for 27 years. [via]
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Life and Games of Mikhai Talby Mik TalISBN 0890582238 (0-89058-223-8)
Softcover, Rhm Pr
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The Life and Games of Mikhail Talby Mikhail TalISBN 1857442024 (1-85744-202-4)
Softcover, Everyman Chess
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Logical Chess: Move by Moveby Irving ChernevISBN 0713484640 (0-7134-8464-0)
Softcover, B T Batsford Ltd
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The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the Worldby Tom StandageISBN 0713995254 (0-7139-9525-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Modern Chess Openingsby Walter Korn, R. C. GriffithISBN 0679135006 (0-679-13500-6)
Hardcover, McKay Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Chess Openings'Book summary:Modern Chess Openings, better known in the chess world as MCO, has been called "the chess player's bible" since it was first produced by Walter Korn almost 60 years ago. With this 13th incarnation, Korn took the role of editor and put the update in the capable hands of International Grandmaster Nick De Firmian. The result is MCO-13, a grander, fully revised and greatly expanded version of this classic work. One important and welcome update over earlier editions is the incorporation of algebraic notation, making the book useful to a wider range of readers. The in-depth analysis of all the major chess openings currently in use--and several minor ones--is based on their use and performance in every major tournament game for several years prior to publication. Even popular old openings, such as the Vienna Game and Two Knights Defense, and tricky offenses such as the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and "Fried Liver" Attack are given detailed attention. The book is divided into five major segments covering symmetrical King's Pawn openings, semi-open King's Pawn defenses, Queen's Pawn openings, Indian Defense systems, and flank openings. MCO-13 belongs on the shelf of every serious chess enthusiast. [via]
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Modern Chess Openings: McO-13by Walter Korn, Nick De FirmianISBN 0812917855 (0-8129-1785-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Chess Openings: McO-13'Book summary:Modern Chess Openings, better known in the chess world as MCO, has been called "the chess player's bible" since it was first produced by Walter Korn almost 60 years ago. With this 13th incarnation, Korn took the role of editor and put the update in the capable hands of International Grandmaster Nick De Firmian. The result is MCO-13, a grander, fully revised and greatly expanded version of this classic work. One important and welcome update over earlier editions is the incorporation of algebraic notation, making the book useful to a wider range of readers. The in-depth analysis of all the major chess openings currently in use--and several minor ones--is based on their use and performance in every major tournament game for several years prior to publication. Even popular old openings, such as the Vienna Game and Two Knights Defense, and tricky offenses such as the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and "Fried Liver" Attack are given detailed attention. The book is divided into five major segments covering symmetrical King's Pawn openings, semi-open King's Pawn defenses, Queen's Pawn openings, Indian Defense systems, and flank openings. MCO-13 belongs on the shelf of every serious chess enthusiast. [via]
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Modern Chess Strategyby Ludek PachmanISBN 0486202909 (0-486-20290-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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More Chessercizes: Checkmates : 300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levelsby Bruce PandolfiniISBN 0671701851 (0-671-70185-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategyby Irving ChernevISBN 0486273024 (0-486-27302-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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My 60 Memorable Gamesby Bobby FischerISBN 0571099874 (0-571-09987-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated.by Bobby FischerISBN 0671214837 (0-671-21483-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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My Systemby Aron NimzovichISBN 0679140255 (0-679-14025-5)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My System'Book summary:For many years, Nimzovich was known as the "Stormy Petrel" of the chess world. Today, his profound theories of positional chess are accepted as a matter of course, and a knowledge of them is essential to every player who wants to improve his game.
My System describes a theory of chess; it also describes the character and genius of its author. It is a very readable book, for Nimzovich's methods sparkle with humor, pungent originality, and witty explanations. [via]More editions of My System:
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My Systemby Aron NimzowitschISBN 9197600539 (91-976005-3-9)
Softcover, Quality Chess Europe
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My System'Book summary:[via]My System is at the top of a very short list of chess classics. Nimzowitschs ideas have had a profound influence on modern chess thinking. Most chess masters will at some point have studied Nimzowitschs work, and not to have read My System is by many regarded as a shocking gap in a chess players education.
The problem for an English-speaking audience has been that My System was written in German more than eighty years ago. The commonly-used contemporary translations have sounded dated for some time, and were always questionable: the translators frequently toned down many passages, fearing Nimzowitschs biting wit would be too controversial.
This edition uses a brand-new translation that recreates the authors original intentions. For the first time an English-speaking audience can appreciate the true nature of a famous chess book.
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My System: 21st Century Editionby Aron NimzowitschISBN 1880673851 (1-880673-85-1)
Softcover, Hays Pub
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One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinationsby ReinfeldISBN 0879801115 (0-87980-111-5)
Softcover, Wilshire Book Co
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The Open Marketby Catherian NevelISBN 0345362403 (0-345-36240-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Oxford Companion to Chessby David Hooper, Ken WhyldISBN 0192800493 (0-19-280049-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to Chess'Book summary:So much has happened in the ever-changing world of chess since 1984, that this new edition of the essential companion to all branches of the game is now 10% longer than the acclaimed first edition.
Much of the original text has been rewritten to incorporate the latest research and developments. There are over 160 new biographies (most of them of today's players), hundreds more names of openings, many more technical terms, and more game scores and compositions than ever before.
Ranging from the earliest myths to the present, the Companion offers full coverage of all aspects of over-the-board play and correspondence chess, and other forms of telechess. Fully cross-referenced throughout, the 2,600 entries take the reader from laws and strategies to details of the representation of chess in philately, literature, art, theatre, and film. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to Chess:
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Pawn Power in Chessby Hans KmochISBN 0486264866 (0-486-26486-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Play Winning Chessby Jeremy Silman, Yasser SeirawanISBN 1857443314 (1-85744-331-4)
Softcover, Everyman Chess
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Play Winning Chess'Book summary:International grandmaster Yasser Seirawan has a knack for communicating not only the playing of the game, but also an enthusiasm for it. In this first of a four part series, Seirawan talks to the chess novice. He explains the game's development and basics of play, sharing stories of some of the wild and wonderful characters from chess history and Seirawan's own experiences. The language is simple and nontechnical enough for the greenest newcomer, who will hardly seem green at all after absorbing the lessons of this terrific introduction to chess. [via]
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Softcover, Microsoft Pr - Play Winning Chess: ISBN 1857443314 (1-85744-331-4)
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Play Winning Chessby Yasser SeirawanISBN 155615271X (1-55615-271-X)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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Playing Winning Chessby Yasser SeirawanISBN 0735609195 (0-7356-0919-5)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playing Winning Chess'Book summary:International grandmaster Yasser Seirawan has a knack for communicating not only the playing of the game, but also an enthusiasm for it. In this first of a four part series, Seirawan talks to the chess novice. He explains the game's development and basics of play, sharing stories of some of the wild and wonderful characters from chess history and Seirawan's own experiences. The language is simple and nontechnical enough for the greenest newcomer, who will hardly seem green at all after absorbing the lessons of this terrific introduction to chess. [via]
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The Reassess Your Chess Workbookby Jeremy SilmanISBN 1890085057 (1-890085-05-7)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reassess Your Chess Workbook'Book summary:International Chess Master Jeremy Silman tests a player's strengths and weaknesses with 131 problems that cover openings, middlegames (both positional and tactical), and endgames. As a player completes a problem, he or she may then turn to consult Silman's lengthy answer to the problem, which is always detailed yet never dry. Through this process of problem solving, analysis and advice, a player is led to discover the major flaws imbedded in his or her play. Through this same process, a player is also led to an understanding of Silman's system of thinking about the game, and how it differs from many other systems of chess thinking. [via]
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chessby Fred WaitzkinISBN 0140230386 (0-14-023038-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machineby Tom StandageISBN 0802713912 (0-8027-1391-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine'Book summary:[via]On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen attended a conjuring show at the court of Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he declared he could do better himself. Maria Theresa held him to his word and gave him six months to prepare a show of his own. Kempelen did not disappoint; he returned to the court the following spring with a mechanical man, fashioned from wood, powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costumeand capable of playing chess.The Turk, as this contraption became known, was an instant success, and Tom Standages book chronicles its illustrious career in Europe and America over the next eighty five years. Associated over time with a host of historical figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Babbage, and Edgar Allan Poe, Kempelens creation unwittingly also helped to inspire the development of the power loom, the computer, and the detective story. Everywhere it went, the Turk baffled spectators and provoked frenzied speculation about whether a machine could really think. Many rival theories were published, but they served only to undermine each other.
Part historical detective story, part biography, The Turk relates the saga of the machines remarkable and checkered career against the backdrop of the industrial revolution, as mechanical technology opened up dramatic new possibilities and the relationship between people and machines was being redefined. Today, in the midst of the computer age, it has assumed a new significance, as scientists and philosophers continue to debate the possibility of machine intelligence. To modern eyes, the Turk now seems to have been a surprisingly farsighted invention, and its saga is a colorful and important part of the history of technology.More editions of The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine:
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Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategyby Bruce PandolfiniISBN 0671659723 (0-671-65972-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategy'Book summary:With Weapons of Chess, National Master and highly acclaimed teacher Bruce Pandolfini brings us the most accessible and easy-to-use chess strategy book ever.
Written for beginning and intermediate players, Weapons of Chess is the first encyclopedia of chess strategies that doesn't rely on the usual baffling chess notation. There are no symbolic chess moves, no charts or sequences in chess notation: every move is explained in words.
Arranged alphabetically for easy use and based mainly on pawn formation, the incredibly detailed and thorough entries in this book talk a player through dozens of common strategic dilemmas, such as "doubled pawn," "bishops vs. knights," and "hanging pawn pair." Diagrams illustrate the terms, first showing the basic position and then strategically moving to more complicated versions of it. Players will learn how to formulate plans once they have reached a middlegame, enabling them to make wiser strategic decisions after the first few moves of the game.
Designed for use as a ready reference during actual practice games, and usable without a chess board, Weapons of Chess is a unique and invaluable resource for any developing chess player. [via]
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Winning Chessby Irving Chernev, Fred ReinfeldISBN 0671211145 (0-671-21114-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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You are an average chess player. You are familiar with the major openings. You have played over some of the famous grandmaster tournament games. You ahve read a few books on the strategy and theory of chess.
Yet your game does not improve. Why? How many times, having played the opening according to the "book" and having attained a satisfactory position, do you ask your self, "What do I do now?"
Winning Chess answers that question. The proper use of combination play is the secret of winning chess. Winning Chess not only tells you, but graphically and forcefully shows you, how to recognize the elements of winning tactical combinations and how to apply them to actual games positions. It teaches you how to look for the distinguishing characteristics and repetitive patterns that announce the presence of a potential combination.
It shows you how to exploit these patterns to achieve such winning tactica as The Pin, The Knight Fork, The Double Attack, The Discovered Check, The Skewer and a dozen others. Each tactical theme is explained, demonstrated, analyzed and illustrated from the simplest form to the more complex situations that arise in master games. Each chapter constitutes a unique lesson in attacking play, and each can be applied directly to your own game.
If you learn these lessons well, you will be well on the road to playing winning chess. [via]More editions of Winning Chess:
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Winning Chess Tacticsby Jeremy Silman, Yasser SeirawanISBN 1572312106 (1-57231-210-6)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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Winning Chess Tacticsby Yasser SeirawanISBN 0735609179 (0-7356-0917-9)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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Ficcion De Ajedrezby Stefan ZweigISBN 8495359154 (84-95359-15-4)
Softcover, El Ancantilado
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Novela De Ajedrez / Chess Novelby Stefan ZweigISBN 8495359456 (84-95359-45-6)
Softcover, El Ancantilado
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El ochoby Katherine NevilleISBN 8466616160 (84-666-1616-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ocho/Eight'Book summary:In the midst of the French Revolution, a young novice discovers that her abbey is the hiding place of a chess set, once owned by the great Charlemagne, which allows those who play it to tap into incredible powers beyond the imagination.
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Catherine Velis, una alta ejecutiva experta en ordenadores, se ve atrapada sin quererlo en la búsqueda de un legendario ajedrez que perteneció al emperador Carlomagno. El campeón soviético de este deporte, de gira por Nueva York, le advierte que corre un grave riesgo si se empeña en encontrar las piezas, pues en ellas reside la clave de una antigua fórmula ligada a la alquimia, la masonería y los poderes cósmicos. Ese mágico ajedrez, enterrado durante mil años en una abadía francesa, nos conducirá -de 1790 a 1970- por la historia de los personajes que poseyeron sus piezas y por la larga serie de crímenes que se cometieron para hacerse con ellas. Los personajes van desde Napoleón, Robespierre y Casanova, hasta Voltaire, Newton o Catalina la grande. Pero los crímenes todavía no han terminado. [via] -
LA Tabla De Flandes/the Flanders PanelISBN 8420427845 (84-204-2784-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This BookBook summary:A secret that could have changed the history of Europe is hidden in the chess game depicted in a fifteenth-century painting. Five centuries later, a young art expert, a gay antiquarian, and a peculiar chess player team up to unveil the mystery. They are all pieces in a diabolic chess game in which pieces are taken and players are murdered. "Paradoxes and puzzles abound. A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever, chamber mystery about chess, life, and art."The New York Times Book Review [via]
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La Tabla De Flandes/the Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 9681903722 (968-19-0372-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Tabla De Flandes/the Flanders Panel'Book summary:A secret that could have changed the history of Europe is hidden in the chess game depicted in a fifteenth-century painting. Five centuries later, a young art expert, a gay antiquarian, and a peculiar chess player team up to unveil the mystery. They are all pieces in a diabolic chess game in which pieces are taken and players are murdered. "Paradoxes and puzzles abound. A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever, chamber mystery about chess, life, and art."The New York Times Book Review [via]
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