Chess - the Royal Game - is an ancient board game, perhaps fifteen hundred years old. There are many legends about how chess came to be. Most of them are folk tales and are far from reality. Arguably more books have been written about chess than all the other games combined, but…
This new 21st-century edition, presented with modern algebraic notation, has combined two books into a single volume; added more than three dozen archival photographs; crosstables; Alekhine's complete match and tournament records; a foreword by Russian grandmaster Igor Zaitsev; …
" ... [A] thorough system for Black against 1.d4. that includes responses to other systems such as the Colle, Trompowsky, London, etc."--Back cover
The 21st Century Edition of Spielmann's classic work. Austrian Grandmaster Rudolf Spielmann's The Art of Sacrifice in Chess first appeared in the mid-1930s. It was immediately recognized as a classic, a masterpiece that examined the nature of chess sacrifices. In this modernized…
The Ultimate Fischer Collection! The Chess Publishing Event of the Decade! The years after the Second World War saw international chess dominated by the Soviets Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and then Spassky held the world crown, treating it as if it were almost an integral…
"The years after the Second World War saw international chess dominated by the Soviets [Mikhail Moiseyevich] Botvinnik, [Vasily Vasilyevich] Smyslov, [Mikhail] Tal, [Tigran] Petrosian and then [Boris] Spassky held the world crown, treating it as if it were almost an integral par…