This is not only a book of 62 instructive chess games, but also 62 beautiful games to cherish. This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph.
The greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1, chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard.
Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in , a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software.
This edition, further updated and expanded, now includes games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game.
It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment.
Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?
Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. Written in lively, conversational style by two prolific and popular chess authors, it is aimed at players who have gone past the beginner stage and want to take their game to a whole new level.
Its imaginative themes and instructional method are timeless, and the whole book is shot through with fun and humour. The original work, Dreihundert Schachpartien, was initially intended to be a well-annotated record of three hundred of Grandmaster Tarrash's best games, but it quickly became a favorite textbook for chess teachers.
This book is the first English Language edition of a chess classic. Get BOOK. Compiled, diagramed, annotated by one of chess literat. One of the game's most admired and respected writers guides you through 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess.
Each game provid. Logical Chess Move by Move. Irving Chernev wrote more than 20 chess books, among them: Chessboard Magic! The Art of Sacrifice in Chess. On principle we incline to rate a sacrificia. Technique in Chess. One Hundred Selected Games. World champion who dominated chess in the s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to
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