The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked - 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 The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked write by Andy Soltis. This book was released on 2000. The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like some art lovers, chess fans claim that they know a good game when they see it, and that they know better from good. But "best"? How is this articulated? This book, itself a work of art, is brought together by the use of five criteria: the overall aesthetics (clever and relentless are insufficient qualities); the originality (e.g., not yet another white knight sacrifice in a Sicilian); the level of opposition (the loser played very well); the soundness (i.e., are the moves refutable with perfect play?), accuracy (few of the moves are second-best), and difficulty (the winner overcame major obstacles) of the game; and finally the overall breadth and depth (one wants a series of sparkling ideas, with no dry patches). The 100 best games were taken from an initial field of about 7,000 played from 1900 through 1999 that had already gained some attention in magazines, books and periodicals. Three hundred games were then selected that appeared to have features consistent with the criteria. The 300 games were evaluated with scores-points given for each category of criteria. The games were then ranked, one to 100, by the score they received. No attempt was made to balance the selection according to period, nationality of players or opening. Also included is a chapter on the most overrated games of the twentieth century and one on games that would have made the list if... Includes 335 diagrams, an index of players and an index of openings by ECO codes.
Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion
Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion - 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 Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion write by Andy Soltis. This book was released on 2013-02-22. Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frank Marshall (1877–1944) reigned as America’s chess champion from 1907 through 1936—the longest stint of anyone in history. A colorful character almost always decked out in an ascot and chewing a cigar, his career coincided with many evolutionary changes in competitive chess. Marshall was a master gamesman. He took up the game of salta, akin to Chinese checkers, and was soon world champion. But more than anything, he loved chess, claiming that after he learned the game at 10 he played every day for the next 57 years. Marshall’s life and playing style are fully examined here, including 220 of his games (some never before published) with 190 positional diagrams.
Soviet Chess 1917-1991
Soviet Chess 1917-1991 - 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 Soviet Chess 1917-1991 write by Andrew Soltis. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Soviet Chess 1917-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the devastations of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet-dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.
Chess Lists, 2d ed.
Chess Lists, 2d ed. - 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 Lists, 2d ed. write by Andy Soltis. This book was released on 2015-10-02. Chess Lists, 2d ed. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The best, the worst, the shortest, the oddest, the longest, the most deceitful, the most memorable, the most brilliant, the dumbest--of players, games, matches, tournaments, books, ideas, etc. The lists are replete with background detail and exact facts--this second edition of Soltis's classic 1984 book is altogether an essential part of any chess collection and a browser's delight. The new edition contains 25 percent more lists, games, diagrams and annotations. The majority of lists from the first edition have been updated or expanded--or both.
Jose Raul Capablanca
Jose Raul Capablanca - 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 Jose Raul Capablanca write by Miguel A. Sánchez. This book was released on 2015-08-20. Jose Raul Capablanca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the most complete and thorough biography of Jose Raul Capablanca, one of the greatest players in the history of chess. Beginning with his family background, birth, childhood and introduction to the game in Cuba, it examines his life and play as a young man; follows his evolution as a player and rise to prominence, first as challenger and then world champion; his loss of the title to Alekhine and his efforts to recapture the championship in the last years of his too-short life. What emerges is a portrait of a complex man with far-ranging interests and concerns, in stark contrast to his robotic reputation as "the chess machine." Meticulously researched, utilizing many sources available only in Capablanca's home country, it puts truth to legend regarding a man who stood astride the chess world in of its most dynamic and dramatic eras. Numerous games and diagrams complement the text, as do a wealth of photographs.
