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Author | : David Bronstein |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780486268576 |
Russian grandmaster offers a wealth of his finest games, presented in full with numerous illustrative diagrams. Lively, frequently amusing commentary emphasizes ideas behind moves, shows how 1P-K4—P-K4 imposes its patterns on subsequent game. 207 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : John Emms |
Publisher | : Gambit Publications |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
This book fills a gaping chasm in chess literature. For years, those who wish to take on the black side of the Ruy Lopez have had to muddle their way through against the variety of alternative openings at White's disposal, because there have been no good books to assist them. This is a detailed guide, written from Black's viewpoint, to facing such openings as the King's Gambit, Vienna, Scotch, Four Knights, Italian Game, Bishop's opening, and the variety of oddball gambits White can try.
Author | : Irving Chernev |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780486432113 |
Analyzes endgame strategies from a variety of chess matches.
Author | : David Bronstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2019-07-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9784871874199 |
David Bronstein was one of the most creative and imaginative grandmasters of chess ever. He came within one game of becoming World Chess Champion.
Author | : Lud?k Pachman |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1987-04-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780486253237 |
International Grandmaster analyzes key games in 65 of the most important matches of the last 100 years. Extensive diagrams and indices.
Author | : Adam Chapman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317553861 |
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form.
Author | : Fred Reinfeld |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1958-01-01 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780486204390 |
300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or travel (you need no board), this book will help end your games with a brilliant touch.
Author | : Richard Pert |
Publisher | : Quality Chess |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781907982750 |
If like most chess players you have a limited amount of time that you can spend studying, but you still want to push for an advantage with White, then the Trompowsky is a great choice. The Trompowsky, 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5, has not been as deeply investigated as many of the main lines, and it is an attacking opening that is tricky for Black to face.As well as providing an attacking repertoire for White with the ambitious Trompowsky Attack, the author also covers 2.Bg5 against the Dutch Defense, as well as the Pseudo-Tromp, 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5.
Author | : United States Chess Federation |
Publisher | : Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 0812935594 |
Explains all legal chess moves, and discusses the regulations governing tournaments, lifetime rankings, and tournament director certification.
Author | : Mark Fainaru-Wada |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2006-03-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 110121676X |
In the summer of 1998 two of baseball leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, embarked on a race to break Babe Ruth’s single season home run record. The nation was transfixed as Sosa went on to hit 66 home runs, and McGwire 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants All-Star Barry Bonds surpassed McGwire by 3 home runs in the midst of what was perhaps the greatest offensive display in baseball history. Over the next three seasons, as Bonds regularly launched mammoth shots into the San Francisco Bay, baseball players across the country were hitting home runs at unprecedented rates. For years there had been rumors that perhaps some of these players owed their success to steroids. But crowd pleasing homers were big business, and sportswriters, fans, and officials alike simply turned a blind eye. Then, in December of 2004, after more than a year of investigation, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story that in a federal investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO, Yankees slugger Jason Giambi had admitted taking steroids. Barry Bonds was also implicated. Immediately the issue of steroids became front page news. The revelations led to Congressional hearings on baseball’s drug problems and continued to drive the effort to purge the U.S. Olympic movement of drug cheats. Now Fainaru-Wada and Williams expose for the first time the secrets of the BALCO investigation that has turned the sports world upside down. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroid Scandal That Rocked Professional by award-winning investigative journalists Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is a riveting narrative about the biggest doping scandal in the history of sports, and how baseball’s home run king, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, came to use steroids. Drawing on more than two years of reporting, including interviews with hundreds of people, and exclusive access to secret grand jury testimony, confidential documents, audio recordings, and more, the authors provide, for the first time, a definitive account of the shocking steroids scandal that made headlines across the country. The book traces the career of Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, an egomaniacal former rock musician and self-proclaimed nutritionist, who set out to corrupt sports by providing athletes with “designer” steroids that would be undetectable on “state-of-the-art” doping tests. Conte gave the undetectable drugs to 28 of the world’s greatest athletes—Olympians, NFL players and baseball stars, Bonds chief among them. A separate narrative thread details the steroids use of Bonds, an immensely talented, moody player who turned to performance-enhancing drugs after Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new home run record in 1998. Through his personal trainer, Bonds gained access to BALCO drugs. All of the great athletes who visited BALCO benefited tremendously—Bonds broke McGwire’s record—but many had their careers disrupted after federal investigators raided BALCO and indicted Conte. The authors trace the course of the probe, and the baffling decision of federal prosecutors to protect the elite athletes who were involved. Highlights of Game of Shadows include: Barry Bonds A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids. How Bonds’s weight trainer, steroid dealer Greg Anderson, arranged to meet Victor Conte before the 2001 baseball season with...