This third volume in Mark Dvoretsky’s School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to questions of strategy aimed at improving the reader’s positional understanding. The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.ĥ.School of Chess Excellence 3: Strategic Play – Mark Dvoretsky
Mikhail Tal, the ‘magician from Riga,’ was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor.Ħ.Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge – Yuri Averbakhīy concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game. In a collection of ninety annotated games, the former world champion demonstrates his strategic style.ħ.Life & Games of Mikhail Tal – Mikhail Tal The great Bobby Fischer takes the reader move by move through 60 of his most instructive and entertaining games, including the astounding “Game of the Century,” played when he was only 15 years old!Ĩ.Half a Century of Chess – Mikhail Botvinnik He is using strategic approach to the games which can give to the reader illustration how a Grandmaster thinks. The most important aspect of this book is how the Author is anotating the games. To mention Euwe-Smylov (round 3), Taimanov-Najdorf (round 4, winner of a brilliancy prize), and Keres-Reshevsky (round 11, one of the most reproduced and analyzed games in chess), is just to touch the tip of the iceberg there are literally dozens of memorable, innovative games in this volume, including a substantial portion by the author, one of the game’s greatest players, who finished tied for second with Keres and Reshevsky, behind the winner Smyslov. Beyond doubt, Zurich-Neuhausen 1953 deserves a place among them. Almost all the games were hotly contested, and many are masterpieces of the first rank. Petersburg 1914, New York 1924, Moscow 1935, and Groningen 1946. We may take as examples of such tournaments the events at Hastings 1895, St. the tournament as a whole represents a step forward in the development of chess creativity. When its participants are the world’s strongest players. The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. For anyone with an interest in chess history and how it fits into the wider contexts of history in general, this is an ideal book.10.Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 – David Bronstein Yalom discusses the rise of the queen piece’s power in relation to European female monarchs through about five hundred years, starting during the Holy Roman Empire. When it was first introduced, the queen was a weaker piece, and evolved over time to become the most powerful piece on the board. Birth of the Chess Queen: A History – Marilyn Yalom Birth Of The Chess Queenīirth of the Chess Queen is a fascinating non-fiction book which examines the queen piece in chess and the wider political and social history in which the piece emerged. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl’s Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion – Tim Crothers
A Partial History of Lost Causes – Jennifer DuBois
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Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual – Mark Dvoretsky Chess Bitch: Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport – Jennifer Shahade
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess – Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies and Don Mosenfelder Birth of the Chess Queen: A History – Marilyn Yalom
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