Los Voraces 2019 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Los Voraces 2019 write by Andy Soltis. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Los Voraces 2019 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rules of "The Greatest Tournament in Chess History," the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls--no outside contact of any kind--as the fourteen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money and fame. These geniuses of the game are strange characters--including two Russian world champions solely responsible for article 17.1 of FIDE's Laws of Chess (the "anti-hair-pull rule"), the Rumanian who speaks a "kind of personal Esperanto, using odds and ends of other languages," and a possible member of the Russian mafia--and when the tournament begins with the death of the ninth highest rated player in the world, everyone is under suspicion. This fabulous chess novel is full of game scores and diagrams--some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It's all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect. By the time the tournament has only five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for 2700+ rated grandmasters? This edition is a revision, with illustrations, of a serialized electronic version run by Hanon Russell on ChessCafe from September 2001 to September 2002.
Los Voraces 2019
Los Voraces 2019 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Los Voraces 2019 write by Andy Soltis. This book was released on 2003-11-10. Los Voraces 2019 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rules of "The Greatest Tournament in Chess History," the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tournament, a.k.a. Los Voraces 2019, are: no seconds, no agents, no computers, no entourages, no pagers, no power palms, no phone calls--no outside contact of any kind--as the fourteen greatest chess players in the world gather to compete for money and fame. These geniuses of the game are strange characters--including two Russian world champions solely responsible for article 17.1 of FIDE's Laws of Chess (the "anti-hair-pull rule"), the Rumanian who speaks a "kind of personal Esperanto, using odds and ends of other languages," and a possible member of the Russian mafia--and when the tournament begins with the death of the ninth highest rated player in the world, everyone is under suspicion. This fabulous chess novel is full of game scores and diagrams--some pretty amazing games are played at Los Voraces! It's all told from the point of view of the arbiter, who is quickly drawn from his role as observer to that of target and suspect. By the time the tournament has only five rounds to go, five corpses have been discovered. Just who is the serial killer with a preference for 2700+ rated grandmasters? This edition is a revision, with illustrations, of a serialized electronic version run by Hanon Russell on ChessCafe from September 2001 to September 2002.
Deadline Grandmaster
Deadline Grandmaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadline Grandmaster write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2024-08-27. Deadline Grandmaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few grandmasters who had a professional career outside of the game, and a prolific author of chess-related nonfiction. It describes how chess and journalism fought for his time for more than 50 years and how he managed to score coups and make blunders in each field. Among his distinctions: He is the only person who has both interviewed Donald Trump and played chess with (and nearly beat!) Bobby Fischer.
Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh
Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2022-02-24. Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A crucial decision spared chess Grandmaster David Bronstein almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis--one fateful move cost him the world championship. Russian champion Mark Taimanov was a touted as a hero of the Soviet state until his loss to Bobby Fischer all but ruined his life. Yefim Geller's dream of becoming world champion was crushed by a bad move against Fischer, his hated rival. Yuri Averbakh had no explanation how he became the world's oldest grandmaster, other than the quixotic nature of fate. Vasily Smyslov, the only one of the five to become world champion, would reign for just one year--fortune, he said, gave him pneumonia at the worst possible time. This book explores how fate played a capricious role in the lives of five of the greatest players in chess history.
Chess Life
Chess Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chess Life write by . This book was released on 2004. Chess Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
