Chess Structures

Chess Structures
Author: Mauricio Flores Rios
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781784830007

Mauricio Flores Rios provides an in-depth study of the 28 most common structures in chess practice. In Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide you will find:*Carefully selected model games showing each structure's main plans and ideas*Strategic patterns to observe and typical pitfalls to avoid*50 positional exercises with detailed solutionsGM Axel Bachmann from the Foreword:"Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide is an excellent selection of model games. By studying the 140 games and fragments in this book, the reader will learn many of the most important plans, patterns and ideas in chess."

Grand Master's Pawn

Grand Master's Pawn
Author: Aurora Springer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508786504

Chosen as the pawn of one of the mysterious Grand Masters, young empath Violet Hunter dreams of exploring strange planets. The portal web that connects civilized planets is fraying as the portals fail one by one. A Grand Master, instead of promoting civilization, may be destroying the portals in a grab for supreme power. Violet seeks the culprits during her missions as a pawn, risking the discovery of her illegal psychic talent. Violet's Grand Master, whose avatar is a griffin, sends her on missions to exotic planets: the ice planet of Erebus, the fiery dragon world of Sythos and a terraformed planet inhabited by barbaric humans. Each mission gives her new clues about the Grand Masters. Pursued by hostile aliens on her fourth mission, she meets the Griffin and plunges into an impossible love and a world of vicious conflicts. She must learn to control her powers and recruit allies to survive.

Grand Master's Pawn

Grand Master's Pawn
Author: Aurora Springer
Publisher: Aurora Springer Novels
Total Pages: 307
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

One young woman challenges the secret rulers of the galaxy and finds an impossible love. Violet dreams of exploring exotic planets as a Grand Master’s pawn. Life-threatening cracks appear in the teleportal web and Violet is tasked with investigating the disruption. Suspicions point to the twelve Grand Masters, and she must penetrate their curtain of secrecy to identify the culprit. Her challenges escalate when she meets the enigmatic man behind the griffin avatar. Armed with only her erratic powers and a mishmash of allies, she must challenge the most powerful beings in the galaxy.

Small Steps to Giant Improvement

Small Steps to Giant Improvement
Author: Sam Shankland
Publisher: Quality Chess
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-11
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781784830502

The correct use of the pawns is one of the most difficult aspects of chess strategy, but GM Sam Shankland breaks down the principles of Pawn Play to basic, easily understandable guidelines every chess player should know. He starts with extremely simple examples, but then lifts the level, showing how grandmasters could have made better decisions by using the book's guidelines.

Grandmaster

Grandmaster
Author: David Klass
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374327777

Freshman Daniel Pratzer gets a chance to prove himself when the chess team invites him and his father to a weekend-long parent-child tournament. Daniel, thinking that his father is a novice, can't understand why his teammates want so badly for them to participate. Then he finds out the truth: as a teen, his father was one of the most promising young players in America, but the pressures of the game pushed him too far, and he had to give up chess to save his own life and sanity. Now, thirty years later, Mr. Pratzer returns to the game to face down an old competitor and the same dark demons that lurk in the corners of a mind stretched by the demands of the game. Daniel was looking for acceptance—but the secrets he uncovers about his father will force him to make some surprising moves himself, in Grandmaster by David Klass.

Grandmaster Gambits: 1 e4

Grandmaster Gambits: 1 e4
Author: Richard Palliser
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Total Pages: 1200
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1781946094

Are you bored with playing it safe in the opening? Had enough of developing your pieces sensibly, aiming to control the centre and getting your king castled? Do you yearn to tear the opposition apart in the style of the great 19th century masters? Then Grandmaster Gambits 1 e4 is the book for you! The highly successful writing duo of Richard Palliser and Simon (GingerGM) Williams have teamed up again to create a repertoire based on jettisoning a pawn (and often a whole lot more) very early on. Whatever opening your opponent favours against 1 e4, the authors have a dynamic gambiteering counter which will throw them onto their own resources. The Sicilian Defence? Attack it with the Wing Gambit. 1...e5? Tear Black apart with the Max Lange Attack. The French? Suffocate Black with the Advance Variation including Magnus Carlsen’s souped-up version of the Milner-Barry Gambit. The Caro-Kann? Play the Hillbilly Attack with 2 Bc4! Your opponent might laugh but they won’t be laughing when you crash through on f7. Forget about playing “properly” in the opening. Open 1 e4, play the Grandmaster Gambits and rip your unprepared opponents apart!

Understanding Pawn Play in Chess

Understanding Pawn Play in Chess
Author: Dražen Marović
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9781901983319

Chess owes its strategic depth to pawns, which take many roles in the chess struggle. In this text, an experienced grandmaster explores the pawn's multi-facted nature, and provides the reader with a range of pawn-play concepts.

Grand Master's Game

Grand Master's Game
Author: Aurora Springer
Publisher: Aurora Springer Novels
Total Pages: 272
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Psychically linked lovers fight the powerful Grand Masters dominating the galaxy. The rebellious Grand Master, Athanor Griffin, devises a risky plan to uncover the culprits responsible for the life-threatening failures in the galactic portal web. His loyal pawn and lover, empath Violet Hunter, is the key to success as they contend with their enemies. But, she wrestles with her erratic psychic talents and doubts about their unequal partnership. She must surmount her insecurities to overcome the nightmares ahead. Science fiction adventure and romance. If you favor epic adventures in space with aliens, dragons, and a sprinkle of humor, read Book 2 in the Grand Masters’ Galaxy.

Think Like a Grandmaster

Think Like a Grandmaster
Author: A.A. Kotov
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1849940533

This is a well-established training manual which encourages the average player to understand how a grandmaster thinks, and even more important, how he works. Kotov tackles fundamental issues such as knowing how and when to analyze, the tree of analysis, a selection of candidate moves and the factors of success.

Grand Master's Trilogy

Grand Master's Trilogy
Author: Aurora Springer
Publisher: Aurora Springer Novels
Total Pages: 1149
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Epic SciFi / Fantasy Adventure and Romance - Three Volumes in One. Teleport through the galaxy, fly with dragons and meet exotic aliens, as young empath Violet hunts the secrets of the Grand Masters. Grand Master’s Pawn, Book 1 Grand Master’s Game, Book 2 Grand Master’s Mate, Book 3 Grand Master’s Pawn One young woman challenges the secret rulers of the galaxy, and risks a perilous love. Young empath, Violet Hunter, dreams of exploring exotic planets as a Grand Master’s pawn. When life-threatening cracks appear in the teleportal web, Violet is tasked with investigating the disruption. Suspicions point to the twelve Grand Masters, and she must penetrate their curtain of secrecy to identify the culprit. Her challenges escalate when she meets the enigmatic man behind the griffin avatar. She plunges into a world of deadly intrigues and risks a perilous love. Armed with only her erratic powers and a mishmash of allies, she must battle the most powerful beings in the galaxy. Grand Master’s Game Psychically linked lovers fight to save the galaxy. The rebellious Grand Master, Athanor Griffin, devises a risky plan to uncover the culprits responsible for life-threatening failures in the portal web. His loyal pawn and lover, Violet Hunter, is the key to success as they contend with hostile aliens and Grand Masters. But, she wrestles with her erratic psychic talents and doubts about their unequal partnership. She must surmount her insecurities and recruit allies to survive the inevitable battle with their enemies. Their worst nightmares lie ahead. Grand Master’s Mate Young empath, Violet Hunter, and the crafty Grand Master, Athanor Griffin, tackle the villains threatening civilization. Their worst enemy rampages across the galaxy, while blocked portals prevent normal interplanetary commerce. Compounding their problems, half the Grand Masters on the Council vow to eliminate Violet. To restore peace, Violet and Athanor embark on a hazardous quest for a weapon hidden by the ancient psychic masters. But, the weapon proves elusive, dangers lurk in the ancient sites, and new alliances forged with bizarre entities may not suffice to thwart their foes and save the galaxy. Sci-Fi Fantasy, super psychics in space, forbidden love, galactic exploration, alien contact Other Books in this Series include: Grand Master’s Cat, Short Prequel Book 4, Cosmic Rift Book 5: Cosmic Wars Book 6: Cosmic Lock