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This book contains fifty illustrative games and a career overview of Chelyabinsk grandmaster Igor Kurnosov who was tragically hit and killed by a car in 2013 at the age of just 28 At his last tournament prior to his death Igor attained a supergrandmaster tournament performance rating in excess of 2700 Kurnosov left an indelible mark on the chess worldhe was a Russian youth champion a member of the Russian national team that won the world student team championship and the Tomsk400 team that finished first at the Russian championship He won or placed highly at dozens of international tournaments The games in this book with highly instructional commentary by Kurnosovs friends and colleagues or sometimes by Kurnosov himself are filled with blistering attacks and subtle endgame play They have been selected in part to demonstrate the progression of his career rather than being his absolute best games Igor had several signature openings but he undoubtedly is best known in the chess world as a master of the Grunfeld Defense According to Grandmaster Dmitry Bocharov in this book Igor was one of the worlds leading experts in the Grunfeld Igor was a sophisticated analyst and many of his opening ideas are still relevant to this day This book will be useful for both beginners and highlyrated players to improve Commentators in this book include such wellknown grandmasters as Ernesto Inarkiev Roman Ovechkin Dmitry Kryakvin Sergei Rublevsky and Kateryna Lahno while his opponents in these games include such names as Boris Gelfand Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dmitry Andreikin
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Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it For over thirtyfour years he wrote stories about corruption from county state and federal levels He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories and it was almost as if the stories found him It was his gift and ultimately it was his downfallHe was best known for his story Dark Alliance written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 In it Webb linked the CIA to the crackcocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal His only published book Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism But his life consisted of much more than this one story and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News amp Review It includes Webbs series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio States negligent medical board and on the US militarys funding of firstperson shooter video games The Killing Game is a dedication to his lifes work outside of Dark Alliance and its an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 092
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Selected Games Of Lajos Portisch Very good condition still has dust jacket for hardcover
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SIM Mike Read of Norwich England competed at Correspondence Chess from 1978 until 2000 This book contains 120 of his best and most interesting games with at least one encounter from every tournament in which he ever took part He was British Junior Champion in 1981 and 1982 became an International Master IM in 1995 and a Senior International Master SIM in 1999 He played 115 games for the Great Britain and England teams including playing for England in two Olympiads two European Team Championships and two North Atlantic Teams Tournaments
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Grandmaster Larry Evans is a renowned chess writer and columnist throughout the USA In this selection of some of the most beautiful and effective chess clashes of the last half century the emphasis is on tactical acuity
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Donald E Knuths influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing His awardwinning textbooks have become classics that are often given credit for shaping the field and his scientific papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide variety of topics The present volume is the eighth in a series of his collected papers
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The 100 outstanding games in this volume are Mikhail Botvinniks own choices as the best games he played before becoming World Champion in 1948 They cover the period from his first big tournament the USSR Championship of 1927 in which the 16yearold Botvinnik became a master to the International Tournament at Groningen in 1946 in which he demonstrated his qualifications for winning the world championshipBotvinnik an expert analyst as well as a champion had annotated these games himself giving a complete exposition of his strategy and techniques against such leading chess players as Alekhine Capablanca Euwe Keres Reshevsky Smyslov Tartakower Vidmar and many others In a foreword he discusses his career his method of play and the system of training he has adopted for tournament playA careful study of these 100 games should prove rewarding to anyone interested in modern chess A full variety of the most popular modernday opening is provided including the Ruy Lopez Sicilian Defense French Defense Queens Gambit Declined NimzoIndian Defense and othersThis volume also includes a long article on the development of chess in Russia in which Botvinnik discusses Tchigorin Alekhine and their influence on the Soviet school of chess the authors six studies of endgame positions and Botvinniks record in tournament and match play through 1948
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TEN 10 FREE Chess Books Included Extremely rare long OP 1988 1st Edition in MINT NEW New Hardcover straight from the publisher out of the actual printers case Hardcover in NEW jacket with BroDart cover TEN 10 FREE Chess Books Included After were notified of your purchase well send you an email with our as of April 21 2018 55 FREE selections so that you may select your TEN 10 FREE Chess Books unless youve requested sellers many not contact you then youll have to contact us first Purchase 2 two or more individually listed items and Ill upgrade your USA shipping to Priority Mail 23 days delivery estimate for free Additionally when earning Upgraded shipping you also qualify for an ADDITIONAL Thank You Gift When youre done making your selections please send me an email requesting that I correct your shipping to Upgraded and to let me know your choice of your Thank You Gift 23 hr shipping or quicker Safely packaged with delivery tracking with confirmation email From a SMOKEFREE home Ive leased a condo and am now able to receive Chess Friends obviously with the idea of a purchase to view 25000 chess items in person If youre gonna be in Las Vegas and would like to view this enormous collection let me know and we can make an appointment Thank you for looking Edward Labate National Chess Master Las Vegas NV USA
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Explore the unique and confusing chess of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles In the era before computerdriven homogenization of chess styles and the instant transmission of new moves through the internet chess players had distinctive styles and none was more distinctive than that of Canadian Grandmaster Duncan Suttles Few players has been as willing to take risks as Suttles and his games combine fearlessness and creativity in a unique way Suttles played fighting uncompromising chess While his ideas may not always have been objectively correct his opponents faced the challenge of proving that at the board Suttles was not afraid to lose games and he was even less afraid to lose postmortems In this the first volume of a threevolume series 100 of Suttles games are analysed in detail Readers of all levels of experience and ability will enjoy these games and learn from them
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Arthur Bisguier is a living legend in American chess having met and defeated some of the greatest players in the world This is a collection of his best games annotated by Bisguier himself from 1961 through 2003 Each game is introduced with an anecdote and brief comment about Arts opponent and combined with many archival photos makes this one of the great chess game collections ever Arthur Bisguier has been one of Americas most popular international chess grandamsters for over six decades His chess career includes the following victories 1948 US Junior Champion 1949 US Junior Champion 1950 1956 1960 US Open Champion 1952 Vienna 1st 1954 US Champion 1970 1974 1978 National Open Champion 1973 Lone Pine 1st 1989
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Chuky youre a genius Leading grandmasters have been heard to whisper these words impressed with yet another brilliancy of Vassily Ivanchuk The Ukrainian wizard immensely popular with pros and amateurs alike has been a member of the world elite for more than twenty years and is one of the most active players on the international circuitIvanchuk has finished first in all major tournaments in the world at times with astonishing supremacy and always with deeply creative chess He has won the Junior World Championship the Blitz World Championship and reached the number two spot in the world rankings Four times he was a member of the team that won the Chess Olympiad once also claiming the individual gold medal on first board The question why Ivanchuk with his phenomenal talent and uncompromising passion for the game has never become World Champion is something of a mystery The inability to handle stress has been suggested and he himself has pointed at periods of black moods or psychological crises Still despite occasional erratic results he has always maintained his position among the very best For this book Correspondence Grandmaster and chess author Nikolay Kalinichenko has selected 100 of Vassily Ivanchuks best and most instructive games explaining his moves and plans for club players The result is a fascinating and rewarding journey to Planet Ivanchuk the extraterrestrial location where the sphinx from Lvov is said to receive his best brainwaves
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Russian grandmaster Yuri Averbakh has selec ted the most interesting and instructive games from his weal th of experience Players are guaranteed to be insipred by t hese classic games and detailed annotations
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Donald E Knuths influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing His awardwinning textbooks have become classics that are often given credit for shaping the field and his scientific papers are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide variety of topics The present volume is the eighth in a series of his collected papers
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In his book the author describes his chess career from 1967 to the present day The first section contians a collection of his games from 1967 until 1970 all of which have been meticulously annotated The second half of the book includes his recollecitons of three former world champions Lasker Euwe and Alekhine and summarises his pioneering work in the field of computer chess
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Selected Games sold at 68.84 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
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