Players And Pawns
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| Author | : Gary Alan Fine |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2015-08-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 022626503X |
A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Within their community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity. Full of idiosyncratic characters and dramatic gameplay, Players and Pawns is a celebration of the fascinating world of serious chess.
| Author | : Kinyanjui Kombani |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780195747300 |
| Author | : Jorg Hickl |
| Publisher | : New In Chess |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2016-05-11 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9056916327 |
If you want to improve at chess, you must know the characteristics of typical pawn formations. Understanding the pawn structure is a key tool when you are evaluating a position on the board. One simple pawn move can ruin your position or win the game. Post-beginners should know the basic essentials of chess structures and that is what this modern training manual focuses on. Experienced chess teacher Grandmaster Jörg Hickl helps you to recognize the important characteristics of pawn structures, learn how you can and should develop your pieces, identify how you can improve your position and develop a plan of action. This book provides common sense guidance and Jörg Hickl uses practical examples to explain typical structures, strategies and plans. His tips and exercises are both highly enjoyable and to the point.
| Author | : Catherine Lawless |
| Publisher | : Four Courts Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : 9781851827756 |
The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, by both established and younger scholars and covering a wide time-span and geographical area, range from examinations of the laws which restrained or enabled women to discussions of women who resisted the authorities, from studies of women who stepped outside their prescribed role and behaved in a manner that might be described as 'manly' to analyses of the constructions of gender and womanhood that influenced such prescriptions.
| 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.
| Author | : Herman Grooten |
| Publisher | : New In Chess |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2017-03-28 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9056916947 |
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what? With this new edition of his award winning book, International Master Herman Grooten presents to amateur players a complete and structured course on how to recognize key characteristics in all types of positions and how to make use of those characteristics to choose the right plan. His teachings are based on the famous “Elements” of Wilhelm Steinitz, but Grooten has significantly expanded and updated the work of the first World Champion. He supplies many modern examples, tested in his own practice as a coach of talented youngsters. In Chess Strategy for Club Players you will learn the basic elements of positional understanding: pawn structure, piece placement, lead in development, open files, weaknesses, space advantage and king safety. You will master the art of converting a temporary plus into other, more permanent advantages. The author also explains what to do when, in a given position, the basic principles seem to point in different directions. Each chapter of this fundamental primer ends with a set of highly instructive exercises. This new 3rd edition has, besides various corrections and improvements, a new introduction and a brand-new chapter called ‘Total Control’ with new exercises.
| Author | : Hans Kmoch |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-04-09 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0486319695 |
Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.
| Author | : Andrew Soltis |
| Publisher | : Batsford Books |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2013-02-14 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1849941157 |
Every chess player needs to know how to handle his pawns. Pawns form the 'playing fields' of chess games, a semi-permanent 'structure' that can determine whether a player wins or loses. This comprehensive guide to pawn structure teaches the reader where pieces are best placed, which pawns should be advanced further or exchanged, and why certain structures are good and others disastrous. This invaluable book is a major update of this chess-world classic, first published in 1975 and unavailable for several years.
| 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."
| Author | : William Guy Carr |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2014-02-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781939438102 |
Here is a true story of international intrigue, romances, corruption, graft, and political assassinations, the like of which has never been written before. It is the story of how different groups or atheistic- materialistic men have played in an international chess tournament to decide which group would win ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources, and man- power of the entire world. It is explained how the game has reached the final stage. The International Communists, and the International Capitalists, (both of whom have totalitarian ambitions) have temporarily joined hands to defeat Christian-democracy. The solution is to end the game the International Conspirators have been playing right now before one or another totalitarian-minded group imposes their ideas on the rest of mankind. The story is sensational and shocking, but it is educational because it is the TRUTH. The author offers practical solutions to problems so many people consider insoluble.
