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The 100 Best Chess Games Of The 20th Century Ranked

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Author : Andy Soltis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The 100 Best Chess Games Of The 20th Century Ranked written by Andy Soltis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Games & Activities categories.

How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But "best"? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics (clever and relentless are insufficient qualities); the originality (e.g., not yet another white knight sacrifice in a Sicilian); the level of opposition (the loser played very well); the soundness (i.e., are the moves refutable with perfect play?), accuracy (few of the moves are second-best), and difficulty (the winner overcame major obstacles) of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth (one wants a series of sparkling ideas, with no dry patches). The 100 best games were taken from an initial field of about 7,000 played from 1900 through 1999 that had already gained some attention in magazines, books and periodicals. Three hundred games were then selected that appeared to have features consistent with the criteria. The 300 games were evaluated with scores-points given for each category of criteria. The games were then ranked, one to 100, by the score they received. No attempt was made to balance the selection according to period, nationality of players or opening. Also included is a chapter on the most overrated games of the twentieth century and one on games that would have made the list if... Includes 335 diagrams, an index of players and an index of openings by ECO codes.

Chess Lists 2d Ed

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Author : Andy Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2002-07-01

Chess Lists 2d Ed written by Andy Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with Games & Activities categories.

The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest--of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts--this second edition of Soltis's classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser's delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded--or both.

Soviet Chess 1917 1991

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Author : Andrew Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-10-29

Soviet Chess 1917 1991 written by Andrew Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with Games & Activities categories.

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 Revolutionary days to the devastations 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.

Smyslov Bronstein Geller Taimanov And Averbakh

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Author : Andrew Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-02-24

Smyslov Bronstein Geller Taimanov And Averbakh written by Andrew Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Games & Activities categories.

A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.

Jos Ra L Capablanca

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Author : Miguel A. Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-06

Jos Ra L Capablanca written by Miguel A. Sánchez and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-06 with Games & Activities categories.

This is the most complete and thorough biography of José Raúl Capablanca, one of the greatest players in the history of chess. Beginning with his family background, birth, childhood and introduction to the game in Cuba, it examines his life and play as a young man; follows his evolution as a player and rise to prominence, first as challenger and then world champion; his loss of the title to Alekhine and his efforts to recapture the championship in the last years of his too-short life. What emerges is a portrait of a complex man with far-ranging interests and concerns, in stark contrast to his robotic reputation as “the chess machine.” Meticulously researched, utilizing many sources available only in Capablanca’s home country, it puts truth to legend regarding a man who stood astride the chess world in of its most dynamic and dramatic eras. Numerous games and diagrams complement the text, as do a wealth of photographs.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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Author : Andy Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-12-07

Mikhail Botvinnik written by Andy Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-07 with Games & Activities categories.

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as the first truly professional chess player--as well as his complex relations with Soviet leaders, including Josef Stalin, his bitter rivalries, and his doomed effort to create the perfect chess-playing computer program. The book has more than 85 games, 127 diagrams, twelve photographs, a chronology of his life and career, a bibliography, an index of openings, an index of opponents, and a general index.

Los Voraces 2019

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Author : Andy Soltis
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-26

Los Voraces 2019 written by Andy Soltis and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Games & Activities categories.

The rules of "The Greatest Tournament in Chess History," the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls--no outside contact of any kind--as the fourteen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money and fame. These geniuses of the game are strange characters--including two Russian world champions solely responsible for article 17.1 of FIDE's Laws of Chess (the "anti-hair-pull rule"), the Rumanian who speaks a "kind of personal Esperanto, using odds and ends of other languages," and a possible member of the Russian mafia--and when the tournament begins with the death of the ninth highest rated player in the world, everyone is under suspicion. This fabulous chess novel is full of game scores and diagrams--some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It's all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect. By the time the tournament has only five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for 2700+ rated grandmasters? This edition is a revision, with illustrations, of a serialized electronic version run by Hanon Russell on ChessCafe from September 2001 to September 2002.